The Beatles Anthology 3 Track List Info Reviews Album Notes A Beginning I've Got A Feeling - (outtake) Happiness Is A Warm Gun - (demo, mono) She Came In Through The Bathroom Window - (outtake) Dig A Pony - (outtake) Helter Skelter - (outtake, mono) Mean Mr. Mustard - (demo) Two Of Us - (outtake) For You Blue - (outtake) Polythene Pam - (demo) Glass Onion - (demo) Teddy Boy - (outtake) Junk - (demo) Rip It Up - (outtake) / Shake Rattle And Roll - (outtake) / Blue Suede Shoes - (outtake) Long And Winding Road, The - (outtake) Piggies - (demo, mono) Honey Pie - (mono) Oh! Darling - (outtake) All Things Must Pass - (George Harrison demo) Don't Pass Me By - (outtake) Mailman, Bring Me No More Blues - (outtake) Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da - (outtake) Get Back - (outtake) Good Night - (outtake) Cry Baby Cry - (outtake) Old Brown Shoe - (George Harrison demo) Blackbird - (outtake) Octopus's Garden - (outtake) Maxwell's Silver Hammer - (outtake) Sexy Sadie - (outtake) Something - (mono, George Harrison demo) While My Guitar Gently Weeps - (solo acoustic) Come Together - (outtake) Hey Jude - (outtake) Come And Get It - (Paul McCartney demo) Not Guilty - (outtake) Ain't She Sweet Mother Nature's Son - (outtake) Because - (outtake) Glass Onion - (outtake, mono) Let It Be - (outtake) Rocky Raccoon - (outtake) I Me Mine - (outtake) What's The New Mary Jane - (outtake) The End - (outtake) Step Inside Love - (outtake) / Los Paranoius - (outtake) I'm So Tired - (outtake) I Will - (outtake) Why Don't We Do It In The Road - (mono, outtake) Julia - (outtake) top Label: Capitol/EMI Records Release Date:10/29/96 Available Formats:Vinyl, CD, Cassette Genre:Rock & Pop Catalog Number:34451 Distributor:n/a Spars Code:n/a Mono/Stereo:n/a Studio/Live:Studio top Reviews Rolling Stone (12/12/96, p.84) ...This is warm, intimate music making, a rare close-up of the Beatles in private, creative ferment....The energy and imagination that the Beatles brought to the basics of rock & roll are all over ANTHOLOGY 3....this is history and music to be treasured... Q Magazine (12/96, p.150) - 4 Stars (out of 5) ...Even with the completion of such a comprehensive bootlegger-thwarting series, there may still be those who are left unsated. For them, there are those rows of dusty counterfeit CD stalls at record fairs... Entertainment Weekly (11/8/96, pp.65-66) ...Once known as counterculture fops, the Beatles are now the rock establishment--the pre-alternative standard bearers of pop songwriting and production....ANTHOLOGY 3 is primarily a collection of songs in unvarnished states..." - Rating: B (Entertainment Weekly is stupid, they never know what the hell they're talking about) top Album Notes THE BEATLES ANTHOLOGY: 3 consists of demos and outtakes from THE WHITE ALBUM, LET IT BE and ABBEY ROAD. The Beatles: John Lennon (vocals, acoustic & electric guitars, piano, bass, percussion); Paul McCartney (vocals, acoustic & electric guitars, piano, organ, bass, drums, percussion); George Harrison (vocals, acoustic & electric guitars, percussion); Ringo Starr (vocals, drums, percussion). Producers: George Martin, The Beatles. Compilation producer: George Martin. Recorded between May 1968 and January 1970. Includes liner notes by Derek Taylor. This final volume of the series chronicles the dissolving Beatles, a band of four men who made no secret of their irreconcilable differences. If ANTHOLOGY: 2, which focused on the cream of the Beatles' studio years, was a study of how a Beatles song came together, ANTHOLOGY: 3 is a study of how the Beatles themselves came apart. McCartney was now an unabashed pop balladeer, Lennon a sneering pop humorist and experimenter, and Harrison a separate songwriting force aching to be unleashed. Ringo Starr remained the glue, a rock-solid, signature presence whose drums, when they are present (a lot of these recordings are drum-less demos), seem to be all that holds the Beatles together. But inasmuch as these were still the Beatles, the scattered demos, rehearsals and outtakes that make up ANTHOLOGY: 3 are brilliant bits and pieces anyway. Lennon's early run-through of "Happiness Is A Warm Gun" is literally bits and pieces--three melodic ideas crammed together, not yet including the part that would become the song's chorus, and in its place including a bit about Yoko Ono. Ono's presence also invades a run-through of "Oh! Darling" that culminates in Lennon singing joyously about her just-finalized divorce. His solo career, which would erase any distinction between his personal life and his songs, can plainly be seen just over the horizon. McCartney's solo career is in even plainer view, on acoustic demos of two songs, including the gorgeous "Junk," that eventually showed up on his first solo album. There is also a version of "The Long And Winding Road" as McCartney intended it--the same performance that appeared on LET IT BE but without the strings that were added against his will. But the real discoveries on ANTHOLOGY: 3 are Harrison's solo demos, including electric-guitar-and-vocal performances of "Something" and "All Things Must Pass." The songs nearly ache with beauty, and Harrison sings them as if discovering his voice for the first time. The finished versions (the latter was the title song from the triple album that was about to burst out of this suddenly freed voice) couldn't possibly stand up to these demos, which are among the highlights of the entire ANTHOLOGY series. top