Editing The Beatles Anthology (section)

==Albums==
{{Main|Anthology 1|Anthology 2|Anthology 3}}
To accompany the ''Anthology'' series, three albums were issued, each containing two CDs, two cassette tapes or three vinyl LPs of mostly never-before-released Beatles material (the exceptions being the Tony Sheridan-era material), although many of the tracks had appeared on [[Bootleg recording|bootlegs]] for many years prior.

Two days after the first television special in the series had aired, ''[[Anthology 1]]'' was released to stores, and included music recorded by [[the Quarrymen]], the famous [[Decca Records]] [[The Decca audition|audition tapes]], and various out-takes and demos from ''[[Please Please Me]]'', ''[[With the Beatles]]'', ''[[A Hard Day's Night (album)|A Hard Day's Night]]'' and ''[[Beatles for Sale]]''. It also included the song "Lend Me Your Comb", omitted from the collection ''[[Live at the BBC (The Beatles album)|Live at the BBC]]'', released the previous year (1994). The song "[[Free as a Bird]]" was included at the very start. Some 450,000 copies of ''Anthology 1'' were sold in its first day of release, the most sales for an album in a single day ever. The band's first drummer [[Pete Best]], replaced by Ringo Starr in 1962 before the Beatles recorded professionally for EMI, received his first substantial Beatles royalties from this album, for the inclusion of early demo tracks on which he played.

''[[Anthology 2]]'' was released on 17 March 1996. The second collection presented out-takes and demos from the Beatles' sessions for ''[[Help!]]'', ''[[Rubber Soul]]'', ''[[Revolver (The Beatles album)|Revolver]]'', ''[[Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band]]'' and ''[[Magical Mystery Tour (album)|Magical Mystery Tour]]''. These included selected early demos and takes for Lennon's "[[Strawberry Fields Forever]]", previously available only to bootleg collectors. The new song "[[Real Love (John Lennon song)|Real Love]]" – which, like "Free as a Bird", was based on an unfinished Lennon recording – was also included in the two-CD collection.

''[[Anthology 3]]'' was released on 28 October 1996. The third collection featured out-takes and demos from ''[[The Beatles (album)|The Beatles]]'' ("White Album"), ''[[Let It Be (album)|Let It Be]]'' and ''[[Abbey Road]]'', as well as several songs from Harrison and McCartney which later became post-Beatle tracks.

[[Mark Lewisohn]] wrote the liner notes that appear in the booklets accompanying all three audio sets. These notes, including the date and location of each session or appearance, were based on his own extensive research.

===Collage===
[[File:Anthology cover collage.jpg|center|Collage of the three covers of ''The Beatles Anthology'', created by [[Klaus Voormann]].]]

The three album covers, when laid side-by-side, become one long painted collage of various peeling posters and album covers representing the different stages of the Beatles' career. This was the work of [[Klaus Voormann]], who also created the album cover for ''Revolver'' in 1966. The ''Anthology'' covers required Voormann to recreate elements of his cover for ''Revolver'' within the collage. During the music video for "[[Free as a Bird]]", the ''Anthology'' collage appears as posters on a shop window as the camera pans quickly across the street. The design also adorned the VHS, [[laserdisc]] and DVD releases, again to be properly encountered by laying the cases side by side.  Upon the release of ''Anthology 3'', [[HMV]] stores made available a limited edition cardboard sleeve designed to hold all three CD volumes of which each side of the sleeve make up half of the collage.

===Digital release and ''Anthology Highlights''===
All three albums were made digitally available on the [[iTunes Store]] on 14 June 2011, alongside a new ''Anthology Highlights'' album which featured a selection of tracks from all three albums and reached number 184 on ''[[Billboard (magazine)|Billboard]]''<nowiki>'</nowiki>s United States [[Billboard charts#Albums|Top Current Albums]] chart.<ref>{{cite magazine|url=https://www.billboard.com/biz/charts/2011-07-02/current-albums|title=Top Current Albums|date=2 July 2011|magazine=[[Billboard (magazine)|Billboard]]|access-date=12 October 2018|url-access=subscription }}</ref>

====''Anthology Highlights'' track listing====
#"[[Free as a Bird]]" – 4:25
#"[[One After 909]]" (Complete) – 2:55
#"[[That Means a Lot]]" – 2:26
#"[[Leave My Kitten Alone]]" – 2:56
#"[[If You've Got Trouble]]" – 2:48
#"[[Can't Buy Me Love]]" – 2:10
#"[[Mr. Moonlight (song)|Mr. Moonlight]]" – 2:47
#"[[Kansas City (Beatles song)|Kansas City]] / [[Hey-Hey-Hey-Hey!]]" – 2:46
#"[[Eight Days a Week]]" (Complete) – 2:47
#"[[I'm Looking Through You]]" – 2:53
#"[[Yesterday (Beatles song)|Yesterday]]" – 2:34
#"[[Tomorrow Never Knows]]" (Take 1) – 3:14
#"[[Strawberry Fields Forever]]" (Take 1) – 2:34
#"[[Across the Universe]]" (Take 2) – 3:30
#"[[Something (Beatles song)|Something]]" – 3:18
#"[[Not Guilty (song)|Not Guilty]]" – 3:22
#"[[Octopus's Garden]]" – 2:49
#"[[All Things Must Pass (song)|All Things Must Pass]]" – 3:04
#"[[Come and Get It (Badfinger song)|Come and Get It]]" – 2:30
#"[[Good Night (Beatles song)|Good Night]]" – 2:38
#"[[While My Guitar Gently Weeps]]" – 3:27
#"[[The Long and Winding Road]]" – 3:41
#"[[Real Love (Beatles song)|Real Love]]" – 3:54