US Edition‘The Beatles Anthology’ Review: a Familiar but Fab Deep Dive
The Beatles Anthology series expands to nine episodes with restored footage and a new album featuring 13 unreleased tracks to mark its 30th anniversary.
- On November 26, the restored Beatles Anthology expanded from eight to nine episodes with a new ninth episode directed by Oliver Murray, debuting on Disney+ with updated footage and sound.
- The expansion builds on reunion interviews from 1994–95 when Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr reunited to create the Anthology collections, originally conceived around 1970 by Neil Aspinall.
- Episode nine presents previously unseen 1990s footage of the band working up `Free as a Bird` and `Real Love`, with restoration led by Apple Corps and Peter Jackson's Park Road Post.
- Audience reaction at the screening underlined ongoing public fascination, as Dame Joanna Lumley recalled a Beatles concert and Oliver Murray said the new episode offers fans a fresh understanding.
- Following recent Beatles projects, commentators note a reframing of the band's story as Ian Leslie's book and Peter Jackson's Get Back have reshaped views, while observers ask if the expanded Anthology can surpass the 1995 original.
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Extended 'Beatles Anthology' takes fans beyond the mythology of the band
LONDON — A new episode of the “Beatles Anthology”, 30 years after the original landmark series, shows the impact on Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr of being in the biggest rock band in history, its writer and director said. The original eight-part documentary, broadcast in 1995, spanned the band’s gritty early days in Liverpool and […] The post Extended ‘Beatles Anthology’ takes fans beyond the mythology of the band appeared firs…
‘The Beatles Anthology’ review: a familiar but fab deep dive
Can there be anything left to say about the most exhaustively documented band in history? This is always the question when a new Beatles project emerges, however welcome it may be. Perhaps surprisingly, more than five decades since their dissolution, the likes of Ian Leslie’s book John & Paul: A Love Story In Songs (published earlier this year) and Peter Jackson’s immersive 2021 fly-on-the-wall doc Get Back proved that the answer is strongly in …
Extended 'Beatles Anthology' takes fans beyond the mythology of the band
LONDON, UK – A new episode of the Beatles Anthology, 30 years after the original landmark series, shows the impact on Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr of being in the biggest rock band in history, its writer and director said. The original eight-part documentary, broadcast in 1995, spanned the band’s gritty early days in Liverpool and Hamburg to the phenomenon of Beatlemania and global superstardom and the break-up in 1970. The An…
REVIEW. The standard work "The Beatles anthology" from 1995 - where the band members told their own story for the first time - is now getting a digital re-release. Thanks to Peter Jackson.
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