Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band and Magical Mystery Tour. The album had already gone to press and McCartney reportedly paid the re-printing costs himself.ĭisc two contains work-in-progress versions of tracks from Sgt. ' I'm Down' was originally listed as Track 7 (in its correct place chronologically) but was shifted out of sequence to Track 3 at the last minute, at Paul McCartney's request. The version of ' Everybody's Trying to Be My Baby' from the group's famed August 1965 show at Shea Stadium but left out of the documentary about the show appears for the first time. The former was originally slated to be the usual vocal spot for Ringo Starr on Help!, and the latter was eventually given to singer P.J. Two other songs recorded for Help!, ' If You've Got Trouble' and ' That Means a Lot', were abandoned and never returned to again by the band. 'Real Love' remained solely credited to Lennon, becoming the only Beatles song to have Lennon by himself in the writing credit.ĭisc one contains three unreleased compositions, one being an instrumental entitled ' 12-Bar Original', recorded for Rubber Soul but subsequently unused. The three surviving Beatles (McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr) added guitars, bass, drums, percussion and backing vocals, but unlike with the previous song, did not re-work the lyrics or music. 'Real Love', as with ' Free as a Bird', is based on a demo made by John Lennon and given to Paul McCartney by Lennon's widow, Yoko Ono. The Anthology albums were remastered and made available digitally on the iTunes Store on 14 June 2011, individually and as part of the Anthology Box Set. Like its predecessor, the album topped the Billboard 200 album chart and has been certified 4× Platinum by the RIAA. The opening track is ' Real Love', the second of the two recordings that reunited the Beatles for the first time since the band's break-up. It is the second in a trilogy of albums with Anthology 1 and Anthology 3, all of which tie in with the televised special The Beatles Anthology. It features rarities, outtakes and live performances from the 1965 sessions for Help! to the sessions just prior to their trip to India in February 1968. Anthology 2 is a compilation album by the Beatles, released on 18 March 1996 by Apple Records as part of The Beatles Anthology series.

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