Anthology 4 available separately
Now available to order
By popular demand, Anthology 4 is now available as a standalone triple LP and double CD — 36 tracks including 13 previously-unreleased demos, rare sessions from 1963–69, the band’s 2023 final single Now and Then, and new mixes by Jeff Lynne of Free As a Bird and Real Love. Available to pre-order now, coming November 21st.
So it looks like The Beatles, Apple and Ume have listened to angry fans who weren’t interested in buying the three volumes of Anthology they already had, in order to get hold of Anthology 4.
The volume is now available to order separately, outside the box.
3LP
Both editions are available, 2CD as well as 3LP.
Link to The Beatles U.K. Store / Link to USA store
Power to the People!
Right On!
BRAVO!……….REALLY….
I’ve ordered thee vinyl and CD, so hopefully they won’t starve!
Of course, they may have planned to do this all along – a bit like the CD single of Now And Then that wasn’t initially announced, in order to boost sales of the more profitable vinyl versions. To be honest, I’m in no rush to buy even this, but I’m happy for anyone who can now cancel their pre-order of the boxset.
It’s probably too late in the day, with production of the cd and vinyl sets already undertaken, but, it’s a shame that they didn’t take in the complaint that the new Anthology 4 album has just 13 unreleased tracks and the rest being released on prior SDE releases. Oh well.
Beatles rule U.K.!!!!
Of course this was already planned and most likely already pressed. There’s no way you can turn around a vinyl pressing in that short a time – even if you’re Apple! It’s sweet that the fans think they had anything to do with it; by public demand my ass! And of course it could all of fit nicely on 2 LPs. £70 for 13 new tracks. Another great rip off, this could – and should have been so much better all round.
Not enough rare tracks to get excited about
The “new” tracks are worth a listen on streaming, no need to own. Just a curiosity. ‘Carnival of Light’ would have made this a must-have for any collection.
I am glad they’ve done this. However, I do think an all knew fourth part of Klaus’s Anthology collage art should have graced the cover of ‘4’.
Alfons Kiefer did the actual painting on that Anthology cover. Klaus art directed.
So he did. It was a great idea and a lovely piece of artwork.
I am looking forward to the instrumental ‘Hey Bulldog’ and the orchestral ‘Walrus’.
In fact, like the Beach Boys, why isn’t there an instrumentals only compilation of Beatles classics? OK, it was Pet Sounds. But every track has a instrumental and vocals only version. Beatles albums done the same way would be great.
Get that bus out, Butler! Get it out!
Look up Stack-O-Tracks from 1968! It’s more than Pet Sounds, and the LP came with chords, lyrics, and notation of vocal lead lines.
Giles has apparently said that a piece of ‘Carnival of Light’ is ‘hiding in plain sight’.
First of all, where? Second of all, what’s the point of doing that?
It has been speculated that it could be a part of the Liverpool Sound Collage album from 2000, where a couple of the tracks are by Paul McCartney & The Beatles. So five years after it was rejected by George from the Anthology series, Paul may have snuck it out. The point in doing that would be that this is an experimental album, which the general public is not likely to purchase. In a recent interview with Elizabeth Alker, Paul spoke about the track: ‘I went into the studio when I knew the guys were all going to be there and I said, “Just before we start on our next song, can we do this little experiment?”I said, ‘I’d just like us to wander around the studio and whenever you see any instrument or anything, hit it or just do something on it, but not a song, just kinda random noises.’ So that’s what we did for fifteen minutes. And that became ‘Carnival of Light’. We played it at the Roundhouse. And the sound engineers would get in on the fun too, because I’d say to them, ‘Just do anything.’ They’d put echoes on the recording, so, for instance, the drumbeat would go boom booom boooom booooom.’ Link to interview