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Anthology 2
is a
compilation album
by
released on
March,18th 1999
by
Apple Record
s as part of
The Beatles Anthology series.
It features rarities,
outtakes
and
live performance
s from the
1965 sessions for
Help!
until the sessions
immediately prior
to their trip to India
in February 1968.
It is the second in a
quartet of albums
with
Anthology 1,
Anthology 3,
and
Anthology 4
and all of which tie in
with the televised special
The Beatles Anthology.
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
Like its predecessor,
the album topped the
Billboard 200
album chart
and has been certified
4× Platinum
by the RIAA
Content
"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 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"
remained solely
credited
to Lennon,
becoming the only
Beatles song
to have Lennon
by himself
in the
writing credit.
Disc one
contains three
unreleased compositions,
one being an
instrumental entitled
"12-Bar Original",
recorded for
Rubber Soul
But subsequently unused.
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.
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. Proby.
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.
"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 album had already
gone to press
and McCartney
reportedly paid
the re-printing costs himself.
Disc two
contains
work-in-progress versions
of tracks from
Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
and
Magical Mystery Tour.
The take of
"Strawberry Fields Forever"
that made up the first minute
of the released record
appears in its entirety
on track three.
Also included are
three songs
that were started
during this period
"Only a Northern Song",
"You Know My Name (Look Up the Number)"
and
"Across the Universe"
but would not
see release
until years later,
in 1969
and
1970.
McCartney had hoped to
include
"Carnival of Light",
an unreleased experimental piece
that the Beatles
recorded during
the sessions
in 1967;
however,
the idea was vetoed by
Harrison,
Starr
and Ono
on the grounds that
the track was never
intended for
a Beatles release.
Notes :
Any Track With
[*]
Is An Added Track
Not On The
Original Album
TRACKLIST
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