Track Listing
1. Real Love
2. Yes It Is
3. I'm Down
4. You've Got To Hide Your Love Away
5. If You've Got Trouble
6. That Means A Lot
7. Yesterday
8. It's Only Love
9. I Feel Fine
10. Ticket To Ride
11. Yesterday
12. Help
13. Everybody's Tryin' To Be My Baby
14. Norwegian Wood (This Bird Has Flown)
15. I'm Looking Through You
16. 12 Bar Original
17. Tomorrow Never Knows
18. Got To Get You Into My Life
19. And Your Bird Can Sing
20. Taxman
21. Eleanor Rigby (strings only)
22. I'm Only Sleeping (rehearsal)
23. I'm Only Sleeping (take 1)
24. Rock 'n' Roll Music
25. She's A Woman
26. Strawberry Fields Forever (demo sequence)
27. Strawberry Fields Forever (take 1)
28. Strawberry Fields Forever (take 7 and edit piece)
29. Penny Lane
30. Day In The Life
31. Good Morning Good Morning
32. Only A Northern Song
33. Being For The Benefit Of Mr Kite (takes 1 & 2)
34. Being For The Benefit Of Mr Kite (take 7)
35. Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds
36. Within You Without You (instrumental)
37. Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (reprise)
38. You Know My Name (Look Up The Number)
39. I Am The Walrus
40. Fool On The Hill (demo)
41. Your Mother Should Know
42. Fool On The Hill (take 4)
43. Hello Goodbye
44. Lady Madonna
45. Across The Universe
| Details | | Number of CDs: | 2 | | Recording Type: | Mixed | | Distributor: | EMI Operations/CEVA Logistics | | Recording Mode: | Mixed |
Album Notes
The second in this series of rare and unreleased Beatles recordings covers the group's famed middle period. It features outtakes, demos and alternate versions of songs from the albums HELP!, RUBBER SOUL, REVOLVER, SGT. PEPPER'S LONELY HEARTS CLUB BAND and MAGICAL MYSTERY TOUR. There are also three previously-unreleased Beatles songs from 1965, several live cuts and the second of the Beatles' new recordings, "Real Love," which began as a late-'70s John Lennon demo and was completed by the remaining Beatles in 1995.The Beatles: John Lennon (vocals, acoustic & electric guitars, piano, drum programming); Paul McCartney (vocals, acoustic guitar, piano, acoustic & electric basses, percussion); George Harrison (vocals, acoustic & electric guitars, sitar, percussion); Ringo Starr (vocals, drums, percussion).Additional personnel includes: Mal Evans (spoken vocals); Brian Jones (saxophone); George Martin (harmonium).Producers: Jeff Lynne, John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison, Ringo Starr (disc 1, track 1); George Martin (disc 1, tracks 2-8, 14-23; disc 2, tracks 2-12, 14-20); George Martin, Chris Thomas (disc 2, track 13).Compilation producer: George Martin.Engineers: Geoff Emerick, Jon Jacobs (disc 1, track 1); Norman Smith (disc 1, tracks 2-8, 14-16); Geoff Emerick (disc 1, tracks 17-23; disc 2, tracks 2-12, 14-15); Geoff Emerick, Jeff Jarratt (disc 2, track 13); Ken Scott (disc 2, tracks 16-18, 20); Ken Scott, Geoff Emerick (disc 2, track 19).Principally recorded at EMI Studios, London, England between February 16, 1965 and April 30, 1969; and live at ABC Theatre, Blackpool, England, Shea Stadium, New York, New York and Nippon Budokan Hall, Tokyo, Japan in 1965 and 1966. "Real Love" recorded in New York, New York circa 1979 and in Sussex, England in February 1995. Includes liner notes by Derek Taylor and track-by-track annotations by Mark Lewisohn. ANTHOLOGY: 2 features the Beatles' working tapes from their most fertile period--the years in which they abandoned touring, retreated into the studio, and recorded some of their most enduring music. This isn't a survey of Beatles hits, but a treasure trove of rough drafts and near misses. An early take of "You've Got To Hide Your Love Away" finds John Lennon still working out his vocal phrasing; a run-through of "Got To Get You Into My Life," recorded before the brass section was brought in, has the band trying all sorts of harmonies and an alternate bridge. "Your Mother Should Know," with a marching snare-drum beat, is nearly unrecognizable from the released version, and "Good Morning Good Morning," stripped of the heavy SGT. PEPPER psychedelic makeup, rocks with Stones-like ferocity.There is also lots of clowning around on ANTHOLOGY: 2--most prominently, John and Paul giggling their way through an early vocal take of "And Your Bird Can Sing." But the bulk of ANTHOLOGY: 2 isn't genius at play; it's genius at work. There are three takes of "Strawberry Fields Forever" that see this rock classic evolving from Lennon demo to bare-bones practice arrangement to full-blown production. Also featured are McCartney's solo demos for two of the Beatles' best. To hear him showing the band the chords to "Yesterday," and sitting alone at his piano, still fooling with the words to "Fool On The Hill," is to hear pop history quite literally in the making.
Editorial Reviews
3 Stars - Good - ...these tracks offer a compelling human story along with one of the most crystalline definitions of synergy in popular culture...
Rolling Stone (04/04/1996)
Recommended - ...The best of this is matchless, and the worst is funnily fascinating...
Melody Maker (03/16/1996)
10 (out of 10) - ...the most extraordinary documentary about pop ever made...
NME (03/16/1996)
3 Stars - Good - ...these tracks offer a compelling human story along with one of the most crystalline definitions of synergy in popular culture...Melody Maker (3/16/96, p.38) - Recommended - ...The best of this is matchless, and the worst is funnily fascinating...NME (3/16/96, p.46) - 10 (out of 10) - ...the most extraordinary documentary about pop ever made...
Rolling Stone (04/04/1996)
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