The Beatles Anthology 2 - A Deep Dive with Insider Secrets

Using insider production notes for the Anthology project, we uncover which tracks were originally considered for inclusion on 'Anthology 2' but were ultimately left off and why. We also dissect the 'Real Love' recording and find out just what was on the 48-track tape. Among other secrets, we discover how the series was originally meant to finish and exactly what happened to 'The End'.
0:00 - Opener & titles
0:55 - Preparing for 'Anthology 2'
1:16 - Selecting John's cassette demos.
2:00 - Recording 'Real Love'.
3:48 - Breaking down the 48-track master tapes.
6:32 - 'Real Love' CD single.
7:41 - Anthology 2 - 1965 track selection.
11:20 - Track selections from 'Revolver'.
13:36 - Track selections from 'Sgt Pepper's...'.
15:34 - May 9th 1967 unreleased session.
16:26 - 'Hey Liley, Liley Lo'.
17:02 - George's revenge & 'Carnival of Light'.
17:30 - How 'Anthology 3' was meant to end.
18:28 - Outro.
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[@marty48]

Small correction: Giles didn't remix Real Love and Free as a Bird for 1+. It was Jeff Lynne himself. Giles did remix the rest of the songs on those Blu-rays

[@gregoryminton]

EBU is a time code sync signal. Probably used to sync the tape with the other machine :)

[@FranksterArchives]

Yep. EBU (European Broadcasting Union) ran at 25 fps, while SMPTE was 29.97 fps.

[@Nick_Catania]

Yes EBU is timecode. It may not have been to sync up the two 24 track machines, rather to sync the 24 track machines to a VTR. My guess, since it was the mid 90s, it may have been 1 inch, type C video tape. They probably used this when syncing the audio to the music video. Since in Europe, they use PAL, it’s 25fps. Non drop.

[@edryba4867]

…known in the U.S. as “AES-EBU”.

[@MatthewNorthMusic]

@@Nick_Catania Mid 90s be Digibeta.

[@alexcaprio]

“That Means A Lot” is one of my favorite songs of all time, I’ll eventually rebuy the 3LP of “Anthology 2” just for that tune.

[@dt9344]

Getting rid of the speeches in anthology 1 was a step in the right direction as you mentioned. For anthology 2 they should have ditched the live recordings and included more of the studio outtakes that were planned for this release but dropped. The live concert material should have been used as a separate release but unfortunately, I don't that will ever happen.

[@thefleshexperience]

Agree 100%. The live songs are the only tracks I tend to skip on this one and they really do seem out of place. Even more disappointing knowing there were so many others they could have put on instead.

[@christiancardenas2975]

I like the speeches in Anthology 1, they kind of give the songs and outtakes some context...

[@rigormortiz9114]

@@thefleshexperience i thought am i the only one who skipped the live ones. I agree they should've put more outtakes instead of live tracks.

[@misterioustraveller149]

@Christian Cárdenas : I think the same. It's a kind of aural history, giving context ànd space and time to let the AT's sink in a bit. I like it so much that I continued this collage myself, using all kinds of input: the Anthology dvd's, interviews on lp's and YT, etc... I started this in 2006, when my daughter Rani was born and got a dangerous meningitis when she was a week old. It was the only thing which could take my mind of that subject during the 6 weeks that it took her to survive this. In all, it came down to about 400', and I called it: 'Four Guys - The Beatles In Their Own Words': 5 cd-r's, copies of which I gave to a few friends. This year I made a new SDL-version for my radio program I have on the city radio station, with new material: 8 hours, in total. Today, Episode 7: The White Album went out on air. I have enjoyed doing this greatly, thanks to Paul, John, George, Ringo and George Martin !

[@the-np4mr]

To be fair, we'll probably get those outtakes in some super deluxe thing down the line

[@EarBooker27]

“Baby’s In Black” on both Real Love and Live At The Hollywood Bowl are from the 8/30/1965 show, but Real Love uses John’s spoken intro from the 8/29/1965 show instead, which still makes it somewhat unique and worth having. Also, I’ve always felt that Rubber Soul is woefully underrepresented here, with only three tracks from the period, and only two of them from the album itself… an album itself that was a major transition into spending more time in the studio. I hope a Super Deluxe Edition can finally right this wrong…

[@seid3366]

Indeed. Rubber Soul was recorded quickly, but only 3 tracks? I'd be curious on what they'd include, because of bootleggers doing their best to archive some of these sessions. But for songs like Michelle and Girl, I'm curious if rehearsals will be included since both were recorded very quick.

[@MIB_63]

I agree but there doesn't seem to be that many outakes available from RS judging from what's available on bootlegs.

[@13StJimmy]

I remember renting the cd for this at my local library of all places and couldn’t get enough it’s definitely my favorite of the anthologies I wonder if they’d ever do a new vinyl release for all of them… what they did with the Escher demos was brilliant so I don’t see why they cant

[@paulj6138]

THERE IS ABSOLUTELY NO REASON NOT TO RELEASE THE ANTHOLOGY DVDS ON BLU-RAY & Of Course include about a half hour of Outtakes Some years ago a Bootleg of a So-called Directors Cut was advertised I told the seller IT is a Fake 👎😖

[@seid3366]

It's still weird to know how much unused material there was, and that the possibility of an Alternate Anthology trilogy would be far from reality

[@barrygoodson4952]

Carnival of Lights should make at least one appearance on something before Paul is gone. It's been spoken of through the years as some great mystic piece. It would be nice to just hear it !

[@chrisdietz1110]

Heard it. It's okay. Been on a few bootlegs.

[@jeffthevideoguy23]

@@chrisdietz1110 I doubt that what you heard on the bootlegs was the real thing. If it were, people wouldn't still be talking about wanting to hear it.

[@chrisdietz1110]

@@jeffthevideoguy23 pretty sure heard it. Its out there on bootlegs. Maybe not remastered but its out there. It wasn't that impressive (hence been unreleased), kind of like Let It Be box set, far from complete. The amount of songs on the bootlegs, far out number of songs on the box set.

[@jeffthevideoguy23]

@@chrisdietz1110 You haven't. Trust me.

[@chrisdietz1110]

@@jeffthevideoguy23 don't trust you, but trust me I have.

[@IndigoDavei]

Great to hear how 'Real Love' was built up on the multitrack, and the story behind the presentation of some of the other tracks. I've never gone out of my way for bootlegs, on the whole, but I do have Sessions, and I can't help feeling that something closer to the concept of that might have been rewarded with more plays over the yesrs. Not that I'm complaining about Anthology - I lapped it up at the time.

[@rikkousa]

The John Lennon Movie started off with an early version of Real Love on guitar. When I first heard it, I could not believe my ears--what is this? I never knew about these songs where John wrote so many beautiful tunes on the guitar and piano. When the Beatles version came out…I still enjoyed John by himself.

[@IndigoDavei]

@@rikkousa When I first heard The Beatles' version I recognised it as the same song, of course, but I was struck by how the arrangement gave it a very different feel. It took a bit of getting used to (though maybe not all that long).

[@GBincProductions]

This is why I'm hoping for super deluxe release of Magical Mystery Tour/Yellow Submarine. That post-Pepper period has so much weird stuff in it. The May 4th jam sessions and things like Hey Liley, Liley Lo are things I really want to hear! Plus, where else are you supposed to put Carnival of Light? It's probably a bad bit of noise, but I think as long as they just stick it on there as a bonus track and don't make a big deal out of it, it should be fine.

[@jxchamb]

The Anthology project was a great event. Watching the videos on ABC was so much fun. I remember the anticipation of seeing the premiere of the Real Love video.

[@ldchappell1]

I have all three Beatles Anthologies and part two is definitely my favorite. So many great tracks. _I'm Down, That Means A Lot, If You've Got Trouble, I'm Only Sleeping, Taxman, Strawberry Fields Forever, Only A Northern Song._ The list goes on.

[@vinylarchaeologist]

I LOVE LOVE LOVE these in-depth videos. This is what KZbin was made for.

[@bookashkin]

I still have the Beatles Sessions LP. It was a real eye opener at the time. Top quality production, fine cover art too. The only thing missing from the bootleg were the labels on the disc itself. Ah, well.

[@johnsmith-cv1lp]

Loving these videos.Great commentary without the arms flapping and facial dramatiztions of other channels .Fantastic amount of detail .

[@Parlogram]

Glad you like them, John. Thanks for watching.

[@uriwertheim1166]

acc is a short we use for acoustic guitars. thank you for another interesting vid

[@abbdabs67]

my favorite of the 3 anthology sets

[@aslutnixessexintulsa]

I like how the Klaus Voorman self portrait on the Revolver artwork is aged on the Anthology art. I remember a Pioneer Laser Disc version that came with a T-shirt

[@kgeo753]

I’m really hoping they release an updated Anthology collection this year.

[@seid3366]

Idea: update the original triology (update notes, rebalance a few songs, repackage in digipacks), and a 4th anthology album would include other tracks that could've been on the original triology. Alongside that, there would be more "obscure" songs (ex. I Want To Tell You) and jams (ex. Hey Liley Liley Lo)

[@kgeo753]

@@seid3366 So, obviously we’ve since found out that Anthology isn’t coming this year. I think it we’ll get it after the Giles Martin remixes are complete. The outtakes are too great of a selling point to give them to fans in a single package now. Get the remixes out and then update Anthology with the best of all of the outtakes from the remixes and the original Anthology. Either way. I think we can count on having Beatles releases to spend our money on every year for at least the next decade.

[@enricosanchez894]

Real Love originally had John's vocals super-sped up and sounding very chipmunk-like. I notice John's vocals on the official video here on KZbin now sound very different from what the original release sounded like.

[@davidheafield1436]

One thing that’s always puzzled me was why only Anthology 2 had a dedicated vinyl promo/sampler for its release? Released as a 7 track EP/12” in its unique sleeve it was a welcome vinyl release for collectors but still bewildering why they didn’t make the same effort for the other two releases

[@dmitrysobolin5158]

Absolutely enjoyed. Thank you very much, Andrew

[@sirdavemoore]

When I first watched your video, I wasn't so sure of 'The Day in the Life' piano chord ending. But rethinking it I could really see the TV show ending with all 3 members merging on the chord (maybe a B&W of John at his piano fading in over the scene) and then the final photo from 69 of all members together for the last time. I think it would've been far more effective than the ending we had of Paul winking to camera and then 'Free As A Bird' . The documentary would've ended as a recollective time capsule of their life in the 60s particularly from where John and George are now...sadly. Brilliantly researched alongside your Part 1 and agree that 'Carnival of Light' cannot live up to the myth. Always thought of it as another 'What's the New Mary Jane' - still dying to hear it though :) Would really love to see an episode on the aborted 'Sessions' album from 1985:)

[@rikkousa]

This is on of my fav programs you have made--fascinating . Bravo.

[@Doc_Holaday]

This is so great! I'm going back and listening to my copies of the Anthologies/Singles as I'm watching your videos. I don't think I've played them since I got them in the 90s. Thanks for this!

[@stevenorman0001]

Please do a video on the 'Love' album too, Andrew! In my opinion the most underrated official release from the Beatles catalogue. How they managed to mix 'Drive My Car', 'The Word' & 'What You're Doing' in to a seamless 3 minute track blows my mind to this day! Also for me it has the superior versions of 'Being For The Benefit Of Mr. Kite' & 'Lady Madonna' compared to the original releases :D

[@larryinc64]

The Mr. Kite mix on that album is interesting, but during the 'She's So Heavy' part, the organ playing a chord on the 2 and 3 beat from Mr. Kite is not synced up at all and bothers the hell out of me lmao. It's an interesting album, I listened to it many times and some parts are a bit rough, but the medley tracks are overtall good though I would not really say any mashup mix on there is better then the originals. It also contains George Martin's last orchestra score of his career for 'Gently Weeps'.

[@larryinc64]

@@scottwallace901 Yeah, I guess the biggest shame with the album is there are not more mashup tracks, some songs are mostly unchanged, aside from transitions or slight mixing differences, like: Eleonore Rigby, Something, Revolution, Back In The USSR, All You Need Is Love, Yesterday, I Am The Walrus, and Hey Jude. It's cool to hear them flow into eachother but there are not many changes to most of the track. And some tracks are just kinda there with no real seqways or changes, like: Help!, and A Day In The Life,

[@KevinTheCaravanner]

Another vote for Love.

[@kevinr.3542]

Sorry but Love should not be considered one of their official albums.

[@larryinc64]

@@kevinr.3542 It was produced by Beatles related people, It was approved by Beatles related people, it has the last score made by the producer of the Beatles, it's the soundtrack for a Beatles related project, it is an album that has The Beatles on the front cover, it contains Beatles recordings, the profits from it went to Beatles related people, a song from it was in The Beatles Rock Band. It's an official Beatles album. Much like Live at the BBC, Anthology 1-3, 1, Rock n' Roll Music, and so on.

[@sheatiller2465]

I've been waiting to see this video in my feed!

[@Parlogram]

Hope you enjoyed it, Shea.

[@jordipallach4185]

Congrats for this video, great work!! Its very important

[@rEdf196]

In the mid 1980's I heard 2 cheap, bootleg looking, obscure albums call ,Silver Beatles part 1 and 2 with very raw, lo fi recordings from 1962. Three Cool Cats, Take Good Care of my Baby, and dozens of other songs from John, Paul, George and Pete, However the Silver albums along with other Beatle bootlegs were officially banned from record stores at the end of the 80's due to their apparent unsavory origins. I heard those same songs on both Anthology albums. I was very impressed at the improved sound quality and added period authentic echo effects giving it much more fuller sounding songs compared to the 80's bootleg albums.

[@edwardrussell5989]

Another fascinating video Andrew. Keep them coming

[@Parlogram]

Thanks Edward, will do!

[@michaellennon13]

Stunning presentation Andrew 😊 Too bad they rejected unreleased songs. But yet, more material to come up some day... And your Bird Can Sing is amongst my favourites of the album. So cheerful! It gets me emotional, thinking how much fun they must had that day in the studio. Also, I didn't know the single included tracks that weren't in the album. I'll definitely try to spot it 😉 Thanks for this wonderful video! PS. I suspect there won't be another one for Anthology 3, right?

[@tonythepostman]

Again another brilliant video!!

[@joestewart7487]

great video! thanks for taking the time to do it accurately & clearly.

[@Parlogram]

Glad you enjoyed it, Joe.

[@trevordixon1427]

Love your channel

[@OlavARod]

Another perfect video! I really love that you go in depth about every anthology album, instead of rushing through them all in 20 minutes. People say that I already know everything about the Beatles (they don’t know what they’re talking about hahaha), but this disproves it! I’ve learned so much from this video, and I am very pleased that you made it for us to watch :). I’ll probably return to this video many times, later down the line, because I’ve probably forgot many cool details already. Again, thank you so much for making such informative, good and cool videos, I really appreciate them! And oh, exited for some Canadian Beatles! :)

[@Bonzodogdick]

Just brilliant mate. Looking forward to the A3 finale 👍

[@michaelcrawley258]

I'm of the mind that Andrew with these two and hopefully third videos has given us a taste of what will be on future Album boxes. Thank You Sir!

[@nicknikipediacaulkin5943]

A fascinating video, Andrew, especially your description on how Real Love was recorded! Interesting to hear how some some tracks were slated to be included on Anthology 2 but didn't make the final cut for various reasons. I think you're right about Carnival of Light although I haven't heard it myself, only read about the content and way-out randomness of the track - the myth surrounding it might not have lived up to the reality! I always learn so much from your videos and this one was no exception - keep them coming!

[@jimvim4086]

Hi Andrew. Perhaps Apple will release more from the Vaults? Time will tell regards to alternative takes because the fans will prefer to hear even more. Various collections already exist on the bootleg market-Entire Beatles catalogue with various takes of released tracks for example. Looking forward towards the Canadian releases. Anyone that grew up with the Cdn. versions on LP will have fond memories. Always found this era interesting as compared to the US Capital releases. Very much appreciated.

[@stevesstuff1450]

Yeah...I've collected a few of the early Canadian Capitol releases, and they sound pretty good, and have interesting variations on the covers.... a nice set of albums for future videos... 👍🏻

[@thefleshexperience]

I’m hoping they will give us deluxe box sets of Rubber Soul and Revolver next, like the Anniversary sets of Pepper, WA, AR and LIB. I would like to think they’re inevitable, but Tomorrow Never Knows! lol

[@mattmcgourty7971]

@@thefleshexperience rubber soul and revolver need the remix treatment badly too, especially the former

[@jfefan97]

@@thefleshexperience I only really need Dr. Robert with the noise ending.

[@maltesetony9030]

Another excellently researched video.

[@Parlogram]

Thanks for watching, Tony.

[@eerievon2946]

Once again a very enjoyable episode. Being a Beatles fan since 5 (sister & parents also so it was easy) I love the depth of your research and level of fandom. Being a musician myself, it always makes me laugh when the Die Hards, kick around, the "why did they do that? why wasn't that left on?" etc. Knowing all the time it's because they didn't think it was good enough. Thanks for all your hard work and dedication, to our Favorite Fabs.

[@R3TR0R4V3]

Excellent video! Tons of great info here. Thanks for the deep dive! ✌️ Can't wait to hear your take on the Canadian Beatlemania, and the infamous "wide stereo" pressings. 👍 Looking forward to it. Cheers

[@Parlogram]

Thanks. Stay tuned!

[@poppinpatty2507]

Great video Andrew! Very interesting! Anthology 2 is my favorite of the series, I love all the transitional songs that link the old time rock 'n' roll to the psychedelic rock later in the Beatles Library. Can't wait for your break down of anthology 3! Keep up the excellent content! Good luck and stay safe🍀 Keep it Poppin🍾

[@Parlogram]

Glad you enjoyed it, Patty!

[@mars7934]

I haven't heard the Anthology series for years. I feel like I know it as well as the regular albums but I’d forgotten how many great tracks are on it! Great video and info as always 👍

[@jonathanyork8977]

Great video again. I bought this on the release date. In fact i remember waiting outside the record shop for them to open! I've got both cd singles still and the 3 anthologies. Fascinating stuff!

[@commanderstraker6732]

Brilliant video Andrew, thank you

[@Parlogram]

Glad you enjoyed it, Sir.

[@jackfitzpatrick7948]

I would love to hear each of these tracks! This session fascinates me

[@MagicalMysteryMike]

Really enjoy all of your videos. So we’ll done and informative! Keep it up! 👍

[@Parlogram]

Thanks Mike!

[@MagicalMysteryMike]

@@Parlogram my pleasure. Thank you for the quality content.

[@MrWalford75]

Fantastic as always-one thing I never understood is why they didn’t incorporate the version of Real Love from the Imagine soundtrack-it’s much clearer, though I am pleased with the way the song turned out, wouldn’t that have been easier?

[@stoonybridge]

The Imagine version of Real Love had a part that wasnt present on the Anthology version. Imo the version that they used for the Anthology was a better version.

[@andrews527]

The enhanced John demos aren't worth a second listen.

[@marcus27]

Great video and loved the Real Love info and was fab stuff

[@Parlogram]

Glad you enjoyed it, Marcus.

[@Musicradio77Network]

I had the Cassette Single (aka CaSingle) of “Real Love” by the Beatles back in the day. It was good. I do remember the original “Real Love” as featured on the soundtrack to “Imagine: John Lennon” from 1988 where John played the piano and it was a demo song.

[@renemies78]

This was such a cool video on and on my bday too. The Anthology albums are dear to me. I was in Jr. High and then High School when they started to come out and they're the Beatles releases that I've listened to more than any other release. Really cool and kind of sad to hear the songs that didn't make the cut and their reasoning behind it at the time. Such a groovy video. Loved it.

[@Parlogram]

Happy Birthday Rene! Thanks for watching.

[@chriscampanozzi6516]

Andrew. Great information as always. Honestly I always thought the anthology ended on a strange scene, interesting to find that other ideas existed.

[@moondogaudiojones1146]

Excellent! Loved the Real Love notes. And still synching multi track machines…I’m amazed! But the info on why and how tracks were or were not included also amazes me! Hopefully, maybe, the other material will come out and some proceeds go to a favorite charity of the surviving Beatles …? Until then the fans are still being treated well as far as I’m concerned. I just may not be around to hear anything new if they do. Great job as always! Til next time…cheers!

[@deepredson]

I love it when you get down and dirty! Haha. Fantastic details. This is why I love your channel so much. Bestest Barty

[@HOTSOHIMSELF]

EBU stands for European Broadcasting Union ….it was used to denote a timecode track….usually an edge track so usually Tr.24

[@cardnut]

I have Anthology 2 on CD, but I really want to get it on vinyl.

[@richardwallace4212]

I bought the Real Love single when it came out and loved the bonus tracks just as much as the A side. I still have it and it is well worn and used, but still loved. Great video, looking forward to Anthology 3.

[@Musicradio77Network]

Can’t wait for “Anthology 3” to come out.

[@dannysvinylrainbow4852]

Excellent episode thank you! The anthology series was the most exciting time for me. The TV series documentary all excellent! And when the singles came out I just lost it I was so excited! I also happened upon a small record store who gave me to Promo CD singles and a promo cd compilation related to the anthology series I still have them today. I'm hoping that the Beatles estate will give us another anthology series along with TV footage and make it happen all over again

[@farrellmcnulty909]

I haven't cared about Carnival of Light since the Sgt Pepper set came out 4 years ago and it wasn't on it. I just gave up and thought "probably not worth it". However, I would have appreciated "Love of the Loved" being included on A1, since so many of the Decca audition tracks made it on. I really could have done without the tv bits, especially from "Morecambe & Wise". It was better watched as historical video than an album track. The live tracks were decent, and I've enjoyed listening to them, but I wouldn't have been disapppointed if they'd been left off. As with all three volumes, the out takes and alternate takes were the main point of appeal.

[@MarkMikelVideos]

Anthology 1 was a disaster especially because of the tv stuff, speech bits, and low quality recordings. A few weeks later, the Used Cd bins were full of them from so many returns from disappointed buyers. That killed the whole momentum of the Anthology releases.They should've released Anthology 3 first and then went backwards.

[@doodledangernoodle2517]

I'd honestly love to see you cover some Beatlegs now. There's a lot of really interesting stuff that often turns up on them.

[@aceopinions]

Hi Andrew, great video with many helpful details on the back story of what was included. This is the only Anthology that I actually liked which I bought shortly after its release. I do wish they could have cleaned up the Real Love vocals a bit more. It sounds very tinny. Interestingly, in my opinion, this Anthology contains a few song version that I prefer over the studio releases. I like the Good Morning, Good Morning version more than Sgt. Pepper, absent the animal sounds and other differences. The standout track that is VERY different from the studio release is George's It's Only a Northern Song. Not a great track on Yellow Submarine that sounds very different and very good on the Anthology . The lyrics are also slightly different. If you take a listen, they are two totally different songs.

[@trevordixon1427]

So many versions of real love...

[@colin_d_smith]

Thanks for this, Andrew. It's interesting to hear what was considered and rejected and why. I'm glad they left those notes for posterity. What Jeff Lynne did with Free As a Bird and Real Love was amazing, especially for the time.

[@zvbxrpl]

I think the OBX refers to an Oberheim Drum Machine which uses samples. I had one of these in the 1980s.

[@jordan390a]

I'm in Calgary Canada, so I'm anxiously awaiting for your video about Canadian releases...

[@user-is4jf8yr4z]

Thanks very much for the track by track detail infos! I love Anthology 2 and especially the Real Love CD-Single. The spoken word intro version of Yellow Submarine is a gem! BTW if you're running short on video ideas in the future maybe try a video on the best sounding records of a specific non album song. For example the best available release of paperback writer.

[@moxievision]

I'd love to know that too. I have a Japanese reissue 7" of Paperback Writer/Rain (the single is probably my Beatles moment) that sounds quite nice, and a beat-up old Canadian 7" that I've had since I was 12 or so, but always wondered what the definitive issue of those songs might be. Also have an Aussie copy of the Hey Jude LP from UK masters that's not bad, but I suspect my copy of the record suffers from groove wear due to heavy play by the previous owner. I should just try and source an original Parlophone 7" at some point.

[@peterx1957]

Yeah there's a nice acoustic version of "Real Love" which opens the "Imagine: John Lennon" film soundtrack album which they could've used instead. It was fully formed and probably a better choice.

[@citygirlfarm]

Always interesting and entertaining, another good video. I remember something concerning The Anthology and that George needed the money, and really didn't want to do it. I don't know how true that is.

[@hadleighford]

Amazing detail as always, thanks so much. I wonder if the anthology albums will get the remix and super deluxe re-release treatment when the core albums have been completed? They could do this or more live albums?

[@MrKaywyn]

Very interesting.

[@SPINNINGMYWHEELS777]

Anthology 2 one of my fav compliations. Sealed copies of this on vinyl were floating around here in Canada up to a few years ago. Bought a few just to be sure as they were only $20 each.

[@rustyroosterrecords295]

My favorite version of Real Love was the acoustic 1988 Imagine Soundtrack version

[@jongerdemann2824]

I think an interesting video would be to go over who Klaus Voorman is, and his relationship with the Beatles, as well as his own musical career.

[@thefleshexperience]

Thank you Andrew! Incredible stuff as always. Perfect timing too as I just picked up a vinyl copy of Anthology 2. I bought them all on cassette when they were released, but have been replacing them on vinyl in reverse. Now that we have the LIB Deluxe, Abbey Road and White Album sets, Anthology 2 really stands out as the most important of the three. Yes, we got Sgt. Pepper but hopefully we will still get Deluxe Editions of Rubber Soul and Revolver and get the best of what they did not include here.

[@jmad627]

I’d like to hear and see anniversary deluxe-type issues of both "Rubber Soul" & "Revolver" too.

[@denisrodrigues1455]

One question that I can't understand about Anthology 2 is why the fantastic (and, for me, even better than the used in the oficial release) version of "And your bird can sing" had to appear with those laughs. It's something absolutely no sense. About the Beatles' recording of "Real love", I confess that in my opinion the "Imagine John Lennon" documentary's version, with its simple arrangement of guitar and vocal has a more special beauty. In other side, the version of "It's only love" is much better than that released in "Help!" album. Anyway, another great part of the Anthology CD series.

[@aisle_of_view]

Here There and Everywhere from the Real Love single is so nice. Worth seeking out.

[@cdpetee]

I just don't understand why they faded out "You Know My Name" early, and didn't give us the full 6:10 version. I made my own edit so the song is complete.

[@NLKINK]

Any plans to do a video about Anthology 3? I was a bit disappointed when the first track wasn't a 'new' song from John's cassette. I've read about the circumstances surrounding the aborted sessions but would like to find out exactly how far Paul, George and Ringo got. Paul stated a few times that he would like to finish at least one track with Ringo utilising tapes with George's guitar work but maybe this is wishful thinking from his side.....

[@emseasz]

Regarding "Real Love EP", it seems that the mixes of "Yellow Submarine" and "Here, There and Everywhere" appeared also on Revolver Super Deluxe Edition

[@gazjones3549]

Makes you realise just how much extra material we aren't hearing or ever getting to.

[@stuartshire]

Hi Andrew - great video . I’m always keen to hear more about the free as a bird / real love sessions so great 😊👍 I wonder how far they got with Now and Then 💁‍♂️ was it not George’s table they were sitting round for the interview footage with the three of them though ?

[@georgeparker6664]

I would have loved to hear the alternate takes of I've just seen a face that is one of my favourite songs and even they were all similar I still think it would have been cool.

[@trublu71]

I wish they would have released Now And Then . Maybe they will .

[@ChromeDestiny]

Anthology 2 has it's flaws. I wish it had the unedited All Too Much and at least a short excerpt from Carnival of Light but I love the versions of Strawberry Fields, the special mix of Penny Lane, Good Morning and Walrus without so much production and it has my favourite version of Across The Universe.

[@MarkMikelVideos]

That's my favorite version of Across The Universe too. So beautiful. It could've been one of their greatest singles.

[@ventues9751]

Another fine job !!! My friends used call me Mr. Wikipedia when it came to music, but you got it all over me !!! :)

[@Parlogram]

Thanks!!

[@alvincash3230]

I agree with my mother's assessment of "Real Love" and "Free as a Bird": "I don't like them."

[@emseasz]

I have original Japanese 1996 release of this set on CD and I listen to it quite often. My favorite moments are when they are laughing while singing one of the songs + Your Mother should know with accordion which I prefer to MMT version

[@HARALDEMANN]

Great overview. However, Free As A Bird & Real Love were not remixed for Beatles 1+ by Giles Martin. They were remixed by Jeff Lynne.

[@danerd8978]

Yellow Submarine recieved a better Stereo Remix on the 2015 1 reissue. Giles put the Bass and Drums in the middle and put the Acoustic Guitars on the side. The Effects are in Stereo as are the vocals.

[@ovelonse]

Now i have a new necessity which is to listen the may 9th whole session of Babe you're a rich man to die happy

[@joshuaross4644]

Nice to know Paul played his 1966 “Beatles” Fender Jazz Bass on Real Love

[@MikeThomas78]

Another great video, Andrew, with enough meticulous details to stop Mark Lewisohn in his tracks! You referred to The Beatles Sessions LP. Have you thought of doing a video to explain the story behind that and why it never appeared? Or maybe it did appear? I have a white-labelled UK pressing with the cover as you show in this video, which I bought at a record fair in the late 80s. The stallholder had a number of copies of that, but also some copies on "Odeon" which had proper labels, and looked like a commercial issue. Perhaps it sneaked out in Europe somehwere?

[@moxievision]

Pretty sure any copy of The Beatles - Sessions is a pirate/bootleg copy. But some of them are very well produced, good enough that you might think they're legit. I have one with a different cover than the one shown here, and there's no confusing it with a legit EMI release, but it still sounds surprisingly good.

[@MikeThomas78]

@@moxievision Do you know, I never even considered it might be a pirate issue, but you must be right. Although the cover looks very realisticallly genuine, the record itself has hand-written matrix numbers of ST-221-A and -B which look very dodgy! Presumably someone "leaked" the tape out of EMI when they realised it wasn't going to be released.

[@01real1]

Making 'Real Love' from multitracks would be a good task for university students of music to deal with in exam. :-) Another informative and nice video from Parlogram. :-) 18:23 - I love 'suitable ending' refference (Penny Lane).

[@markjamesmeli2520]

Thanks for getting those notes. It's wonderful insight. I've always thought it strange that "If You Got Troubles" and "That Means A Lot" sounded so different from the rest of the UK HELP! album. Especially "That Means A Lot," which appears to have some sort of "in-line" noise that wasn't corrected. I don't know if it was from an amp, reverb unit or maybe a low organ track. It was on a bootleg version I've heard as well, although on said bootleg, the overall mix of the track was better. Sad that they didn't have ways of digitally synching the overdubs from take-to-take. That technology didn't come about until the engineers doing the Beach Boys PET SOUNDS first time stereo mixes had to reconfigure all the tracks from the ground up. Meaning that, the stereo vocals could only be mixed from these tapes, and the stereo instruments could only be mixed from "those" tapes. Oh well, they created work for future generations and didn't even know it.

[@stephentansleysr.4625]

Andrew… love all your videos. I was wondering if you’ve ever considered doing a program on the Beatles singles in the cd3 inch format? Thank you! -Steve

[@Parlogram]

Possibly!

[@markboyd9275]

There used to be a retail trade back then called Ice that our record shop subscribed to. They would preview upcoming releases and sometimes the tracks listed varied wildly from the finished product. The Who’s deluxe edition of My Generation is a great example (deals with whoever owned the rights fell apart so many promised tracks disappeared.) I remember reading about Anthology 2 &that there was going to be more audio commentary from the series interspersed between songs just like in the first collection. For example, Ringo complaining about the touring grind before the Live tracks. While I’m glad they chose to drop this idea (didn’t like it interrupting the flow on Anth 1 either) but would love to hear a promo version if it exists.

[@maxwelleddison6717]

Sorry to be pedantic but they were sat around George's kitchen table for the end of Anthology. Yhey are wearing the same clothes they wore in George's garden. But great video..can't wait for 3!

[@isuriadireja91]

still waiting on Paul's promise of finish recording "Now and Then" as a Beatles song. come on, Sir Paul...where is it...??

[@ChrisMezzolesta]

EBU is European Broadcasting Union, equivalent to our Society of Motion Picture & Television Engineers, they have a standard for sync-lock timecode that is recorded (printed) to one of the tracks on one of the tapes to be synced (to another machine or these days to a computer). Over here we'd say "stripe it with simptee", meaning, say, Track 24 or 1, outermost tracks and those most likely to suffer from edgewear and dropout and thus compromise audio, would have the tone recorded all the way thru the tape, and the other tape machine (or computer) would be set up to read the time code, keeping both machines in sync. So yes, you had it! Who else waited at Best Buy til midnight when they opened the boxes for the Anthology sets??!! Got em all on CD and vinyl.(and VHS and DVD...)

[@Parlogram]

Thanks for the information, Chris.

[@moxievision]

For anyone who cares, "simptee" = SMPTE = Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers the group also behind your standard colour test pattern that I'm sure we've all seen (compared to the UK "test card" that British TV viewers may be familiar with).

[@48musicfan]

Wow!!! That was awesome! So much interesting information. With today’s technology, it might be surprising to see how “Free as a Bird” and “Real Love” could sound if redone. Well done, Andrew!👍👍Bring on Part 3.😀

[@BilisNegra]

It would be great if everyone involved then were still around to do it again. The two Georges, Emerick...

[@minevance9461]

Speaking of Jeff Lynne, i think you should do a video on The Move’s output. Their 60s and 70s output is a very interesting topic