Beatles - Anthology 1, 2 & 3 - 9 LPs - UK - Mint

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The Beatles – Anthology 1, 2 & 3 – 3 UK Triple LPs

Parlophone 34445, 34448 & 34451 – 1995 & 1996

The Beatles Anthology is the name of a documentary TV series, three albums and a book, all of which focus on the history of The Beatles.

To accompany the Anthology series, three music albums were released, each containing two CDs or three vinyl discs of mostly never-before-released Beatles material..

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 audition tapes, and various out-takes and demos from the band's first four albums. It also included the song "Lend Me Your Comb", omitted from the collection Live at the BBC, released in 1994. The song "Free as a Bird" was included as the first track.  Anthology 1 sold 450,000 on its first day of release, the most sales for an album in a single day ever. The Beatles' first drummer Pete Best, received his first substantial Beatles royalties from this album, for the inclusion of the early demo tracks on which he played.

On March 17, 1996, Anthology 2 was released. This collection presented out-takes and demos from the Beatles' sessions for Help!, Rubber Soul, Revolver, Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, and Magical Mystery Tour. These included selected early demos and takes for John's "Strawberry Fields Forever”, previously available only to bootleg collectors. The new song "Real Love" which, like "Free as a Bird", was based on an unfinished demo by John, was also included.

On October 28, 1996, Anthology 3 was released. The third collection featured out-takes and demos from The White Album, Abbey Road, and Let It Be.

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.

This auction is for the triple-disc UK releases of Anthology 1, 2 & 3. (9 discs)  Anthology 1 is in Near Mint + condition. Anthology 2 & 3 are sealed.

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