

As John Lennon said years later, “We sat in the mountains eating lousy vegetarian food and writing all these songs. They also had no drug connections, which might help explain why they came up with their sturdiest tunes in years.

They wrote these songs on retreat with the Maharishi in Rishikesh, India, a place where they had no electric instruments.

When the boys gathered at George’s pad in the last days of May – nobody’s sure of the exact date – they had excellent reason to feel cocky about their new material. studio albums and four essential collections - Past Masters (Volumes 1 & 2), The Beatles 1962-1966, The Beatles 1967-1970, and The Beatles 1 - debuted for streaming worldwide.Fifty years later, the Esher demos remain one of the Beatles’ strangest artifacts. On December 24, 2015, The Beatles' 13 U.K. The collections are accompanied by original collage artwork created by Klaus Voormann from classic Beatles imagery. Anthology, Volume 3 includes "A Beginning," an instrumental orchestral arrangement originally recorded for The Beatles (The White Album).Īnthology, Volumes 1-3 were remastered at Abbey Road Studios by the same team of engineers responsible for The Beatles' GRAMMY-winning 2009 studio album remasters, carefully maintaining the authenticity and integrity of the original analogue recordings. "Free as a Bird" became The Beatles' 34th Top 10 hit in the U.S., winning the 1996 GRAMMY(R) Award for Best Pop Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal. Upon their original release, Anthology, Volumes 1-3 topped charts and went multi-platinum in several countries around the world. The "Free as a Bird" and "Real Love" singles, from Anthology, Volume 1 and Anthology, Volume 2, respectively, were completed in 1995 by George Harrison, Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr from 1977 demos recorded by John Lennon.

Originally released in 2CD volumes in 19, Anthology's three chronological collections of rare and previously unreleased Beatles recordings include studio outtakes and alternate versions. On April 4 at 12:01am local time, The Beatles' acclaimed Anthology, Volumes 1-3 music collections are available for streaming worldwide.
