![]() We're not saying all of them deserve a place on those LPs, but we're glad they eventually found a home. While there are many alternate versions of classic songs scattered throughout the six discs (and many that are worth savoring), we think the 12 tracks worth keeping from the Beatles' Anthology series are the ones that were entirely left off their respective albums for one reason or another. But the best of them reveal a side of the group's history that was left undocumented, at least officially, for more than a quarter-century. And some are tinny live versions where you can hardly make out the band from all the screaming girls in the audience. 1995 Preview From rare recordings with Stuart Sutcliffe and Pete Best in their short time with The Beatles to the band fine-tuning their live skills from Hamburg to Sweden, the first in the Anthology series is filled with historic milestones and incredible music.Some are fragments, some are mere dialogue. ![]() By chronologically lining up the band's earliest recordings (a cover of Buddy Holly's "That'll Be the Day" from 1958 when they were still known as the Quarrymen) to the last song they recorded together (fittingly, a remix of "The End"), the three volumes tell the story of the world's biggest pop group – the rise, the fall and everything in between. Still, Anthology posed itself as more than just a vault-clearing project (like Dylan's Bootleg Series). ![]()
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