(THE BEATLES -Anthology #2)-E8-3xLP

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ITEM: VINYL 12” 3xLP 33 1/3rpm
ARTIST: THE BEATLES
TITLE: Anthology #2
COUNTRY PRINTED: UK
CAT No: 7243 8 34448 1 6
COVER: Triple gatefold (Grade at NEAR MINT+) tiny ding bottom right cnr
LABELS: (Grade at NEAR MINT+) L1 has some bubbling/ L3 has “production” tear
VINYL:
Record #1:(Grade at MINT)
Record #2:(Grade at MINT)
Record #3:(Grade at NEAR MINT+)
TRACKS:
Side 1: 
1. Real Love
2. Yes It Is [Version] 
3. I'm Down
4. You've Got to Hide Your Love Away [Version] 
5. If You've Got Trouble
6. That Means a Lot
7. Yesterday [Take] 
8. It's Only Love [Take] 

Side 2: 
1. I Feel Fine
2. Ticket to Ride
3. Yesterday [Take] 
4. Help! [Version] 
5. Everybody's Trying to Be My Baby
6. Norwegian Wood (This Bird Has Flown) 
7. I'm Looking Through You
8. 12-Bar Original

Side 3: 
1. Tomorrow Never Knows
2. Got to Get You into My Life
3. And Your Bird Can Sing [Version] 
4. Taxman
5. Eleanor Rigby [Strings Only] 
6. I'm Only Sleeping [Rehearsal] 
7. I'm Only Sleeping [Take 1] 
8. Rock & Roll Music
9. She's a Woman

Side 4: 
1. Strawberry Fields Forever [Demo Sequence] 
2. Strawberry Fields Forever [Take 1] 
3. Strawberry Fields Forever [Take 7 and Edit Piece] 
4. Penny Lane [Take] 
5. Day in the Life [Version] 
6. Good Morning, Good Morning [Version] 
7. Only a Northern Song

Side 5: 
1. Being for the Benefit of Mr. Kite [Takes 1 and 2] 
2. Being for the Benefit of Mr. Kite [Take 7] 
3. Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds [Take] 
4. Within You, Without You [Instrumental] 
5. Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (Reprise) [Take] 
6. You Know My Name (Look up the Number) 

Side 6: 
1. I Am the Walrus [Version] 
2. Fool on the Hill [Demo Version] 
3. Your Mother Should Know
4. Fool on the Hill [Take 4] 
5. Hello, Goodbye [Version] 
6. Lady Madonna [Take] 
7. Across the Universe [Alternate Take] 
ALBUM CONTENT: Wikipedia
Anthology 2 features outtakes, rarities, and alternative performances from the 1965 sessions for Help! to sessions just prior to their trip to India in February 1968. It starts off with the second new Beatles track, "Real Love", as with "Free as a Bird" again based on a demo made by John Lennon and given to Paul McCartney by Lennon's widow, Yoko Ono. The three surviving Beatles added guitars, bass, drums, percussion, and backing vocals, but unlike with the previous song, did not re-work either lyric or music. "Real Love" remained solely credited to Lennon, becoming the only Beatle 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 off the documentary appears here for the first time. "Norwegian Wood (This Bird Has Flown)" and "I'm Looking Through You" appear in early versions before they were remade in the forms known from their release on Rubber Soul. 

Disc two contains work-in-progress versions of tracks from Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band and Magical Mystery Tour. "Your Mother Should Know" also appears in an early version different from the known release, and tracks one and 15 are demo recordings respectively by Lennon and McCartney. The take of "Strawberry Fields Forever" that made up the first minute of the released record appears in its entirety on track three. Although recorded or started during this period, "Only a Northern Song", "You Know My Name (Look Up the Number)" and "Across the Universe" would not see release until years later, in 1969 and 1970. 

One track that remains officially unreleased from this time, "Carnival of Light", was vetoed off this set by George Harrison.[1] 

  COMMENT: Biography by Richie Unterberger
So much has been said and written about the Beatles — and their story is so mythic in its sweep — that it's difficult to summarize their career without restating clichés that have already been digested by tens of millions of rock fans. To start with the obvious, they were the greatest and most influential act of the rock era, and introduced more innovations into popular music than any other rock band of the 20th century. Moreover, they were among the few artists of any discipline that were simultaneously the best at what they did and the most popular at what they did. Relentlessly imaginative and experimental, the Beatles grabbed a hold of the international mass consciousness in 1964 and never let go for the next six years, always staying ahead of the pack in terms of creativity but never losing their ability to communicate their increasingly sophisticated ideas to a mass audience. Their supremacy as rock icons remains unchallenged to this day, decades after their breakup in 1970.

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COVER: Slight wear or creasing.
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COVER: Noticeable wear on cover, seam or spine.
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