Editing The Beatles (section)

==== 1990s ====
''[[Live at the BBC (Beatles album)|Live at the BBC]]'', the first official release of unissued Beatles performances in 17&nbsp;years, appeared in 1994.{{sfn|Harry|2000a|pp=661–663}} That same year McCartney, Harrison and Starr collaborated on the ''[[The Beatles Anthology|Anthology]]'' project. ''Anthology'' was the culmination of work begun in 1970, when Apple Corps director [[Neil Aspinall]], their former road manager and personal assistant, had started to gather material for a documentary with the working title ''The Long and Winding Road''.{{sfn|Harry|2000a|pp=110–111}}

During 1995–96, the project yielded a television miniseries, an eight-volume video set and three two-CD/three-LP box sets featuring artwork by [[Klaus Voormann]]. Documenting their history in the band's own words, the ''Anthology'' project included the release of several unissued Beatles recordings. Alongside producer [[Jeff Lynne]], McCartney, Harrison and Starr also added new instrumental and vocal parts to songs recorded as demos by Lennon in the late 1970s,{{sfn|Harry|2000a|pp=111–112, 428, 907–908}} resulting in the release of two "new" Beatles singles, "[[Free as a Bird]]" and "[[Real Love (Beatles song)|Real Love]]". A third Lennon demo, "[[Now and Then (Beatles song)|Now and Then]]", was also attempted, but abandoned due to the low quality of the recording.<ref name=":0" /> The ''Anthology'' releases were commercially successful and the television series was viewed by an estimated 400&nbsp;million people.{{sfn|Harry|2000a|pp=111–112}} A book, ''[[The Beatles Anthology (book)|The Beatles Anthology]]'', followed in October 2000. In 1999, to coincide with the re-release of the 1968 film ''Yellow Submarine'', an expanded soundtrack album, ''[[Yellow Submarine Songtrack]]'', was issued.{{sfn|Doggett|2009|p=342}}