The song, released in December 1995, went to No. Most interestingly, a demo of a 1977 song by Lennon, “Free as a Bird,” was taken back into the studio and finished by the three surviving Beatles, with a video made as part of Anthology. Recollections were from best friends who, through all the turmoil, never lost their affection, and now shared a common ground of wonder and joy in the music.Ī multimedia package followed, along with three albums’ worth of mostly never-before-released demos, outtakes and alternate versions. Interviews were interspersed with concert and televised performances.įor TV viewers, Anthology was enormously ambitious-the first real attempt to tackle the entire Beatles story. For everyone who grew up with the Beatles, it was a fascinating dive into the band’s history, going all the way back to their Liverpool childhoods, the early club days in Germany, the explosion of Beatlemania and their stratospheric dominance of pop music, up to the band’s breakup in 1970. The final result was a six-episode series shown on ABC over three nights right around Thanksgiving 1995.
(Archival interviews were used for John Lennon, who had been murdered in 1980.) The idea was dusted off again in 1992 and took a different perspective, asking surviving members to tell the story of the group’s evolution in their own words. Originally, a 90-minute film titled The Long and Winding Road was completed, but with no involvement from the Beatles themselves, the movie was shelved. Behind the ScenesĪ documentary on the band had been in the works on and off since 1970. The Beatles’ big picture finally emerges in full. The Beatles AnthologyĪBC, November 19–23, 1995 The Big Picture This is an excerpt from TV Guide Magazine’s The Beatles on TV Special Collector’s Edition, available for order online now at and for purchase on newsstands nationwide. Hey there, The Beatles fans! Join us in our 10-day countdown to the premiere of The Beatles: Get Back on Disney+, sizing up the 10 greatest TV moments in the long and winding history of the lads from Liverpool.
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