I'll Always Be In Love With You (John Lennon)
I'II Follow The Sun (Paul McCartney)
One After 909 (John Lennon / Paul McCartney)
Hello Little Girl (John Lennon)
Recorded Livepool, May 1960
To begin with, many Beatles-Fans amund the world were dissapointed with the "Bootleg"-quality of many of the tracks on Anthology 1, particularly evident on the three outtakes from an early Beatles-rehearsal in 1960. Well, dear Beatles-Fans, these tracks were lifted from a Bootleg and not a very good one, at that. Also, the selection of the three songs left a lot to be desired, when there was far more interesting material on that Bootleg to choose from. Why haven' t they released I'll Always Be In Love With You, an early Blues- influenced Lennon-composition? What about the acoustic renditions of the 'later' Beatles-songs I'll Follow The Sun and One After 909? Or the tender Buddy Holly-esque treatment of Hello Little Girl?
Here, now, are four 'better' examples of the early Beatles' developing sound. Better not only in terms of judgement, but also in quality ! NOT taken from a Bootleg, but from a cassette-copy two generations away fmm the master, an old Grundig reel-to-reel, which still can be found somewhere in the heart of Europe

Love Of The Loved (John Lennon / Paul McCartney)
Recorded Decca Studios, London, 1 January 1962
Undoubtedly one of the highlights of the Beatles' audition for Decca records on New Year'sDay 1962 was the performance of this Lennon / McCartney - original, which was later given to Cilla Black to record.

I Saw Her Standing There (1962 Rehearsal) (John Lennon / Paul McCartney)
One After 909 (1962 Rehearsal) (John Lennon / Paul McCartney)
Recorded Cavern Club, Liverpool, late March, 1962
Two embryionic versions of later Beatles - classics, two examples of the pre-fame Beatles with Pete Best on drums rehearsing "new" material for their stageact, recorded during an afternoon-session at an empty Cavern Club in Spring 1962.

Some Other Guy (Live) (Leiber / Stoller / Barrett)
Recorded Cavern Club, 22 August 1962
Again recorded at the Cavern Club, but this time live at a lunchtime-session when the Club was packed and when parts of the Beatles' appearance was filmed for TV. It was the fourth gig of the group with Ringo Starr as their new drummer. Please note that this version of Some Otber Guy is different to the one included on the Anthology videos!

A Taste Of Honey (Live) (Marlow / Scott)
Recorded Star Club, Hamburg, 31 December 1962
Time: The early hours of New Years's Day 1963.
Scene: A near-empty Star Club at the end of a big party.
On Stage: The Beatles, playing at this notorious place for the last time.
"... and now a 'Lied thaf s John's gonna hate" announces Paul. "No, he'll love it", says George. And then they play this 'schmaltzy' tune in a somewhat casual way. At one point during the perfonnance John shouts at the audience to stop talking ! But well played nonetheless. Please note that this is a different recording of A Taste Of Honey than that featured on the usually-available Live! At The Star Ctub! CD's / Albums !
By the way, the person you are hearing at the beginning of this 'Lied (Gennan for 'soag') is actuaUy Star Club 'Geschäfts-führer Horst Fascher telling the people to go because it is now 'Feierabend. This was, of course, after the Beatles had played ...

I Saw Her Standlng There (Take 2) (John Lennon / Paul McCartney)
Recorded EMI Studios, London, 11 February 1963
Altemate versions of the first two tracks from Please Please Me album. Culled from the famous 11 Feruary 1963 session that produced that very album. The main difference between the album-take of I Saw Her Standing There (take 1) and the one presented here (take 2) is the guitar-solo from George. Paul's german count-in was lifted from a BBC-perfonnance of that song for Saturday Club, recorded 7 September 1963.

Misery (John Lennon / Paul McCartney)
Take 1 of Misery included here (the 'album-versiod is take 16) has George's lead guitar playing the part which was later substituted by Producer George Martin on piano.

From Me To You (John Lennon / Paul McCartney)
Recorded EMI Studios, London, 5 March 1963
Take 2 of the Beatles third sngle. The song is played very slow and bluesy, Not a hit-single yet ...

Talkin' Bout You (Chuck Berry)
Recorded BBC Broadcasting House"London, 16 March 1963
This Chuck Berry rocker was recorded by the Beatles only once... Live on this day for an edition of BBC´s Saturday Club.

Bad To Me (John Lennon / Paul McCartney)
Recorded Dick James Publishing Studio, May 1963
A nice double-tracked demo by John. This tune was never recorded by the Beatles, as John gave his composition exclusevly to Brian Epsteins protege Billy J. Kramer.

Don't Bother Me(George Harrison)
Recorded EMI Studios, London, 12 September 1963
Take 10 of this very first Harrisong, taken from the sessions for the Beatles second album with the Beatles

This Boy (John Lennon / Paul McCartney)
Recorded EMI Studios, London, 17 October 1963
Take 13 of the b-side to I want to hold your hand. Right in the middle this performance is flawless, until...

Medley:
      Love Me Po
      From Me To You
      She loves You
      I Went To Hold Your Hand
      (John Lennon / Paul McCartney)
Recorded IBC Studios, London, 19 April 1964
On this IBC-studio-session for the TV-Special Arround the Beatles. (of which five songs are included on Anthology 1), the Beatles also taped their first five hits. For the show these were edited together to form a medley. about four-und-a-half minutes long. Voila, here it is.

Can't Buy Me Love (Live) (John Lennon / Pauf McCartney)
Recorded Wembley Empire Pool, London, 26 April 1964
We paid tribute to the Beatlec as a great live-band by including this storrning live-version of their sixth hit-single. Recorded at the 1964 New Musical Ezpress PoIlewinners-concert in London.

I Should Have Known Better (John Lennon / Paul McCartney)
Recorded BBC's Paris Studio, London, 17 July 1964
A. very straight forward version without harmonica, but with electric guitar. Recorded during rehearsals for the forth edition of the BBC-program From us to you

You Can't Do That (Live) (John Lennon / Paul McCartney)
Recorded Hollywood Bowl, Los Angeles, 23 August 1964
Another example of thw Beatles at their peak as a live-hand. This time it's the b-side to Can't Buy Me Love, regretfully never released on 1977's The Beatles .At The Hollywuvd Bowl album!

I'm A Loser (John Lennon / Paul McCartney)
Recorded EMI Studios, London, 14 August 1964
The second of eight take, not yet worked out properly.

She's A Woman (Take 2)(John Lennon / Paul McCartney)
Recorded EMI Studios, London, 8 October 1964
The Beatles as a three-some-minus George-working their way through take 2 of this later b-side to I Feel Fine. A few, takes later (take 7) the atmosphere in the studio gets kinda loose and the song evolves into an early example of the Beatles jarnming away in the studio ... freaking out..'

I Feel Fine (Take 1)
I Feel Fine (Take 5) (John Lennon / Paul McCartney)
Recorded EMI Studios, London, 18 Qctober 1964
The first attempt at recording this. the Beatles ' eight single. was a breakdown. But interesting nonetheless because it that the song was originally written in a different key; It had to be transposed because the 'original' proved to be too high for John´s voice. We´ve also included take 5 of the song which was already nearly perfect.

That Means A Lot (Re-make) (John Lennon / Paul McCartney)
Recorded EMI Studios, London, 30 March 1965
A remake of this song recorded over one month later than the version on Anthology 2. But still the Beatles, especially Paul, who had composed the tune, felt that they couldn´t com to grips with this song and in the end it seems that they didn´t even care....

Help! (Studio Take) (John Lennon / Paul McCartney)
Recorded EMI Studios, London, 13 April 1965
A composite mix of takes l. 3. 9 & 12. First the Beatles perfected the backing-track, then they recorded the vocals and at last they overdubbed a lead guitar.

The Night Before(John Lennan / Paul McCartney)
Recorded BBC's Piccadilly Theatre, London, 26 May 1965
Another straight-forward BBC-version of a polished Beatles LP-Track. Not performed live anywhere else, only on this occasion, the last-ever Beatles-radio-session.

Baby's In Black (Live) (John Lennon / Paul McCartney)
Recorded Hollywoad Bawl, Los Angeles, 29, 30 August 1965
One more live-performance courtesy of Capitol Records who recorded the two concerts the Reatles gave at the Hollywood Bowl in August 1965. The introduction is from the first, the music from the second night.

Norwegian Wood (Take 2)(John Lennon / Paul McCartney)
Recorded EMI Studios, London, 21 October 1965
A very different and in our opinion much better version than the one released on Anthology 2. This hitherto unreleased take 2 has a much more 'indian raga' feel to it. A real treasure

Day Tripper (Instrumental) (John Lennon / Paul McCartney)
Recorded EMI Studios, London, l6 October 1965
The tirst attempt at perfecting the instrumental backing for Day Tripper.

Yellow Submarine (John Lennon / Paul McCartney)
Recorded EMI Studios, London, 26 May and 1 June 1966
This new mix of the Yellow Submarine maste emphasizes iths many and varied sound effects and features, unmissably, a novel introduction to the song, spoken by Ringo over marching sound effects.

Here, There And Everywhere (John Lennon / Paul McCartney)
Recorded EMI Studios, London, 16 June 1966
As released on Revolver, Here, There And Everywhere was a lavish blend of Paul'i lead vocal, combined Beatle harmonies and elegant instrumentation. Issued here is a combination of take 7 (the basic track with Paul's simple but effective guide vocal and - superimposed near the end - a 1995 remix of those harrnonies, as overdubhed on to take 13.

Yesterdey (Live) (John Lennon / Paul McCartney)
Recorded Candlestick Park, San Francisco, 29 August 1966
A historic mornent - A rare live recording from the very last Beatles-concert.

Strawberry Fields Forever (Orchestral Score)(George Martin)
Recorded EMI Studios, London, 15 December 1966
.. and in full flight onto the psychedelic years! The orchestral score for Strawberry Fields Forever. arranged and conductcd by Geurge Martin, here takes on a life of its own as an irnpression piece of classical music. Gigantic.

Good Morning, Good Morning (Demo)(John Lennon / Paul McCartney)
Recorded 'Kenwood', Weybridge, Surrey, January 1967
A brief John Lennon home - demo. Just the man and his mellotron

It'a All Too Much (George Harrison)
Recorded De Lane Lea Studios, 25, 26 May 1967
The Beatles let loose - not at Abbey Road but at another studio across town where Gcorge Martin wasn't loohing. This is the complete. unedited 8:20 -freakout version . The mix of this song released on the Yellow Submarine - Soundtrack is twominutes shorter.

Your Mother Should Know (Take 1)(John Lennon / Paul McCartney)
Recorded Chappell Recording Studio, London, 22 August 1967
Take 1 - just Paul on piano and vocal accompanied by Ringo on drums.

Aerial Tour Instrumental (Flying) (John Lennon / Paul McCartney / George Harrison / Richard Starkey)
Recorded EMI Studios, London, 8 September 1967
The original mix ot Flying - with extra mellotronics and an old Modern Jazz-rercording (dubbed from a record stuck at the end. This idea was later recurrceted by George on his Wonderwall - LP.

Lady Madonna (Demo) (John Lennon / Paul McCartney)
Recorded EMI Studios, London, autumn 1967
Sometime during Magical Mystery Tour recording sessions Paul played a new catchy melody; for which he had no wordy yet, on harmonium to his fellow Beatles...

Christmas Time (Is Here Again) (John Lennon / Paul McCartney / George Harrison / Richard Starkey)
Recorded EMI Studios, London, 28 November 1967 (music), 6 December 1966 (greetings)
From 1963 to 1969 the Beatles gave members of their official fan club a specia1 gift at Christmas. a record unavailable elsewhere. The 1967 disc was titled (Christmas Time (Is Here Again) and extract from a song of that name were scattered among thw sketches. Issued here is an uninterruptrd recording of he number. Superimposed near the end are some apoken word seasonal greetings, taped in 1966, followed by a John Lennon pastiche.

The Inner Light (instrurmental)(George Harrison)
Recorded EMI Recording Studio, Bombay, India, 10 January 1968
The exquisite backing-track for this Lady Madonna b-side can very well stand on ist own. It was recorded by indian muscians under the supervision of its composer, George Harrison.

Revolution (John Lennon / Paul McCartney)
Back In The USSR (John Lennon / Paul McCartney)
Not Guilty (Demo)(George Harrison)
Recorded Esher, May 1968
Seven acoustic White Album songs from a private tabe recorded by the Beatles themeselves at George Harrion´s home can be found on Anthology 3. Well, here are three more! Two lighthearted versions of Revolution and Back in the USSR repectivley, and the accoustic demo for Not guilty you can compare to the electric version on Anthology 3.

'Weird Album' Sessions (John Lennon / Paul McCartney / George Harrison / Richard Starkey)
Recorded EMI Studios, London, June to October 1968
... or Around the White Album in five minutes, compiled for the Beatles Anthology Videos. You can hear bits and pieces of unused session-recordings, laughs, mistakes ... an aural insight into the creative atmosphere that .surrounded the rnaking of this masterpiece.

Happiness Is A Warm Gun (Studio Take)(John Lennon / Paul McCartney)
Recorded EMI Studios, London, 23 - 25 Sepfember 1968
A 1994 remix of the original version with unused organ und piano.

Heather(John Lennon / Paul McCartney)
Recorded EMI Studios, London, November 1968
Paul and his friend, Singer / Songwriter Donovan, playing around with their acoustic guitars during recordings for Apple-artiste Mary Hopkin's debut-LP Postcard. And, as usual, the ever-inventive Paul comes up with a nice melody ... just for the moment!

Goodbye(John Lennon / Paul McCartney)
Recorded EMI Studios, London, December 1968
Paul McCartney wrote this song especially for Mary Hopkin to record it as her second single. He recorded this charming acoustic demo for her to learn.

19 Two Of Us (Rehearsal)
20 Get Back (Rehearsal)
21 Suzy Parker(John Lennon / Paul McCartney)
(John Lennon / Paul McCartney)
Recorded Twickenham Film Studios London, January l 969
Three outtakes from the first part of the Let It Be sessions that took place in the first two weeks of January, 1969. (As opposed to the second batch of recordings at Apple in the second half of the same month). The Let It Be outtakes on Anthology 3 were all recorded at Apple Studios, whereas the Twickenham sessions were overlooked. Now, Two Of Us and Get Back are featured here in their earliest incarnations - as raw, unpolished rockers. Much in the same vein is Suzy Parker, an unreleased Lennon - 'song'. All three songs prove that, at least once in a while, the Beatles were having fun during those infamous Let It Be sessions!

'Let It Be' Session Medley (John Lennon / Paul McCartney / George Harrison)
Recorded Twickenham & Apple Studios, London, January, 1969
During the recording and filming of Let It Be. the Beatles. Paul and George in particular, came up uith lots and lots of, songs. Nearly als of the tracks for Abbey Road were already written ! There were numbers that were never recorded by the Beatles as a group. but by John, Paul and George during the course of the next three years Even tunes that are unreleased to this day.
We edited together some of these musical 'snippets', to create a Fiie-Minutes-'Medley for your listening pleasure One by one, those songs included are; Suicide (a McCartney tune written in the 50's) / Polytheme Pam / Mean Mr. Mustard / All Things Must Pass / Woman (song Paul had written for Peter & Gordon in 1966) Hot As Sun (another early'McCartney-composition ) / Old Brown Shoe and, finally Geh' Raus (aka Get Back).

I Want You(She's So Heavy)
Oh, I Need You(John Lennon / Paul McCartney)
Recorded Trident Studios, London, 21 February 1969
The Beatles follow the footsteps ol Cream as a heavy-rock -trio while George is absent with this early version of John's I want You . Funnily enough it is Paul who sings here, making this the only occasion here he takes the lead vocal on a Beatles-original he hasn't written.
Oh, I need You on the other hand, an unreleased sentimental ballad in a style usually associated with Paul McCartney sung here by ... John. Maybe he had written it as a counterpart to I Want You? Maybe the two Beatles wanted to switch roles on that day

The End (Instrumental)(John Lennon / Paul McCartney)
Recorded EMI Studios, London, 23 July 1969
The End of it all - presented here, unlike as on Anthology 3. in its purest form - the basic track. no overdubs no vocal

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