Featuring nearly 5 1/2 hours of exclusive footage, including home movies, rare studio clips, live concerts and the Fab Four's most memorable songs, the eight-volume, ten-hour set of The Beatles Anthology home video will allow fans the opportunity to own for the first time the definitive story of The Beatles, as told by The Beatles.
Each volume of the eight-cassette video set will include approximately 75 minutes of music and memories of the Beatles' beginning and career. The suggested retail price is set at $159.98. Capitol Records has selected Turner Home Entertainment to distribute this landmark home video project in America.
To date, The Beatles Anthology project has resulted in the sale of 16 million copies of both The Beatles Anthology Volume 1 and 2. Both sold record numbers upon their release -- Volume 1, the fastest selling double album ever (855,797 retail units in its first week) and Volume 2, released this past March, selling nearly 500,000 during week one. Both debuted at #1 on Billboard's Top 200 Album Chart.
ABC is set to rebroadcast "The Beatles Anthology" special on August 31, September 5 and September 7, 1996 and a formal announcement will be made next month regarding the Fall release of "The Beatles Anthology Volume 3."
The Beatles Anthology TV series has been nominated for the top prize in factual television -- an Emmy award for best documentary series.
The five-hour series that caught the imagination of the world when it was screened in 94 countries last November was nominated in Los Angeles last night.
The Beatles Anthology has been nominated for three Emmy awards: Outstanding Informational Series, Outstanding Picture Editing and Outstanding Sound Editing.
Five years in the planning and making, The Beatles Anthology made TV history as, for the first time, the Beatles' story was told personally by John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr. It is estimated that the series was watched by an audience of 420 million worldwide.
Neil Aspinall, head of Apple Corps. and executive producer of the TV series, said today, "This nomination is a great honour and it reflects the enduring worldwide interest in the Beatles."
Anthology producer Chips Chipperfield added, "It is a great accolade for a British-made documentary series to be nominated in this, the biggest TV market in the world."
This September will see the release of the Beatles Anthology video collection -- a double-length, 10-hour version of the TV series, which will tell the Beatles' story in even greater detail.
This autumn will also mark the release of The Beatles Anthology Volume 3, the final album in the trilogy of Beatles' unreleased recordings that has to date sold the equivalent of 25 million albums around the world.
Disk 1 Side 1 39:49
Chap Time Description
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1 00:00 Intro (excerpt from Help!)
01:04 In My Life montage
03:28 The Wild Ones (all the Beetles missed ya, Johnny)
04:00 Let's go back, back, back, back,...
04:15 Growing up
2 07:44 Early musical influences
11:05 Elvis doing Hound Dog, clips of other early stars
14:14 First instruments
15:53 Crosstown search for the B7 chord
16:50 The Girl Can't Help It
3 19:06 Paul, George, John meet up
22:24 Paul does Twenty Flight Rock
4 24:28 First recordings, That'll Be The Day, In Spite Of
All The Danger
27:23 Stuart Sutcliffe
28:45 More early recordings
5 30:42 Ringo and Rory Storm and the Hurricanes
31:35 How the Beatles were named
32:47 Early tours
39:08 Pete Best
Disk 1 Side 2 39:09
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6 00:00 Hamburg (to Roll Over Beethoven)
07:18 Klaus Voorman, Astrid Kirchner
07:57 Star Club recordings
12:00 Tony Sheridan, My Bonnie
7 13:18 Disappointment with Pete, Stu leaves, Paul becomes
bass player
16:14 Neil Aspinall becomes roadie
8 16:35 The Cavern
17:41 Kansas City, live (from Cavern?), Brian Epstein,
new suits
20:54 Decca audition tapes (Cha Cha Boom!)
22:12 Brian secures audition with George Martin
9 23:51 Ringo joins the band
25:27 Some Other Guy, live, Cavern, complete
27:34 Ringo/Andy White/Love Me Do
10 31:49 Dissatisfaction with How Do You Do It
34:10 Please Please Me, live, complete
36:46 End credits, to Leave My Kitten Alone
Disk 2 Side 1 40:37
Chap Time Description
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1 00:35 Early interviews and fame
02:35 BBC radio excerpts
05:48 First album
08:24 early color concert footage (few seconds, place?)
08:35 Twist And Shout, lip sync, compiled from several
videos
2 11:11 Introduction to Derek Taylor
12:50 excerpt from From Me To You, lip sync
17:09 Early off-stage color film montage, to It Won't Be
Long
20:20 She Loves You, live, complete, color film
3 22:40 Move to London, 1963
24:34 I Wanna Be Your Man, Rolling Stones/Beatles (lip sync)
27:09 TV comedy show appearances
4 30:28 Studio outtakes
35:25 This Boy, video, lip sync
Disk 2 Side 2 31:11
Chap Time Description
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5 00:00 I Saw Her Standing There, live, complete, Swedish TV
02:54 Long Tall Sally, live, complete, Swedish TV
06:20 Royal Variety Show, From Me To You, live, complete
08:37 Royal Variety Show, Til There Was You, live, complete
11:07 John's 'rattle your jewelry' comment, Twist And Shout,
live, complete
6 14:24 Second album, With The Beatles
15:23 Please Mr. Postman, lip sync, complete
17:38 Roll Over Beethoven, live, complete
21:41 I Want To Hold Your Hand, lip sync, complete
7 24:04 Paris trip
26:50 First trip to America
29:07 End credits, to One After 909
Disk 3 Side 1 37:31
Chap Time Description
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1 00:35 Arrival in New York, press conference
03:19 Film from limo, hotel room, Murray The K
2 10:09 Ed Sullivan show, All My Loving
13:14 Train trip to Washington
15:59 She Loves You, live, Olympia Stadium, Washington,
with some live color film footage
18:58 I Saw Her Standing There, Olympia Stadium
22:34 Please Please Me, Olympia Stadium
3 24:34 British embassy
25:45 vacation in Miami, to I'll Follow The Sun
30:04 This Boy, live, Miami, incomplete
31:36 Packing for Britain
4 32:36 Return to England
34:30 Making A Hard Day's Night (AHDN)
Disk 3 Side 2 35:29
Chap Time Description
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5 00:00 Excerpts from AHDN
05:30 If I Fell from AHDN
08:44 Can't Buy Me Love from AHDN, cut to live
performance
10:55 In His Own Write (John winks at 11:07)
6 12:54 World tour, Jimmy Nichol subs for Ringo
14:57 Long Tall Sally, record overdub on Holland performance
21:05 Ringo rejoins in Australia (Nazi salute at 21:36)
22:05 All My Loving, live, Australia, incomplete
25:00 You Can't Do That, live, Australia
7 27:40 AHDN premiere in Liverpool
33:00 End credits, to outtakes from I'll Be Back
Disk 4 Side 1 31:13
Chap Time Description
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1 00:35 1964 American tour
05:55 All My Loving, live, Hollywood Bowl
2 09:19 Beatles meet Bob Dylan, discover herbal jazz
cigarettes, tour craziness
3 18:34 Making of I Feel Fine
20:10 I Feel Fine, lip sync, complete
23:10 Kansas City/Hey, Hey lip sync cut to live
25:54 I'm A Loser, live, complete (John plays harmonica
a la Dylan)
28:58 Everybody's Trying To Be My Baby, live
Disk 4 Side 2 39:19
Chap Time Description
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4 00:00 Filming of Help!
02:28 You're Gonna Lose That Girl from Help!
07:46 You've Got Hide Your Love Away from Help!
12:02 Help, live
5 14:28 Origins of Yesterday
15:50 Yesterday, live, complete
18:58 I'm Down, live, incomplete
19:39 I Feel Fine, live, incomplete
20:32 She's A Woman, live, incomplete
6 21:38 George's songwriting
23:00 Act Naturally, live, complete
26:20 Ticket To Ride, live, cut to promo video
7 28:28 MBEs
35:42 Live at Shea Stadium, pre-show excerpts
36:42 End credits, to If You've Got Trouble
Disk 5 Side 1 35:20
Chap Time Description
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1 00:35 Shea Stadium intro by Ed Sullivan
01:33 Twist And Shout, Shea Stadium, incomplete
03:12 I Feel Fine, Shea Stadium, complete
06:50 Baby's In Black, Shea Stadium, complete
10:24 I'm Down, Shea Stadium, complete
2 15:46 Meeting Elvis
3 20:49 More tour craziness, musicianship deteriorates
23:23 New musical directions, Rubber Soul
27:25 Norwegian Wood, Take 1, incomplete
4 30:48 Revolver
32:21 Excerpts from film Yellow Submarine, home movie
footage poolside
Disk 5 Side 2 36:28
Chap Time Description
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5 00:00 Tomorrow Never Knows, Take 1, incomplete
02:18 Nowhere Man, live, complete, Munich
6 04:23 Introduction to LSD
07:35 Day Tripper promo videos
11:30 We Can Work It Out promo video
7 13:41 Talk about promo films
15:18 Paperback Writer promo film
18:12 Rain promo film/video
8 21:11 1966 World Tour
26:45 Rock And Roll Music, live, Budokan
29:07 Paperback Writer, live, Budokan, incomplete
30:39 Yesterday, live, Budokan
34:03 End credits, to And Your Bird Can Sing outtake
Disk 6 Side 1 37:09
Chap Time Description
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1 00:35 The infamous Philipines trip
2 08:43 Paul does Eleanor Rigby, cut to recorded version
and back
11:00 John's Jesus statement
16:24 Beatles backlash
21:22 Last concert, Candlestick Park
22:25 Backwards in time concert footage montage, to For
No One
3 24:34 Time off after touring
25:45 John in How I Won The War
27:53 Paul and excerpts from The Family Way
29:14 Interviews outside Abbey Road during Sgt. Pepper
sessions
32:03 Making of Strawberry Fields Forever
32:48 SFF promo film including mellotron intro by Paul
36:15 Making of Penny Lane
Disk 6 Side 2 33:41
Chap Time Description
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4 00:00 Penny Lane promo film
5 05:19 Making the Sgt. Pepper album
08:04 Sgt. Pepper album cover animation from 1987 special
6 10:53 Making of A Day In The Life
11:42 A Day In The Life, Take 1 (not on A2)
15:40 A Day In The Life w/film from orchestra party
7 20:17 Reaction to Sgt. Pepper
22:45 Jimi Hendrix covers Sgt. Pepper
25:50 Paul admits LSD use
28:46 Almost buying a Greek island
31:15 End credits, to SFF Take 1
Disk 7 Side 1 38:10
Chap Time Description
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1 00:35 Leadup to All You Need Is Love
03:50 All You Need Is Love broadcast, colorized
07:19 Summer of love
08:43 George visits Haight-Ashbury
10:20 Meditation and the maharishi
2 14:37 Brian Epstein dies
18:24 Brian Epstein montage, to You've Got Hide Your
Love Away outtake
3 22:54 Making of Magical Mystery Tour
26:55 Fool On The Hill from MMT, incomplete
28:33 Your Mother Should Know from MMT, incomplete
4 32:58 I Am The Walrus from MMT, complete
37:24 Ed Sullivan intro to Hello Goodbye promo film
Disk 7 Side 2 35:35
Chap Time Description
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5 00:00 Hello Goodbye promo films
03:45 Opening the Apple Boutique
6 06:07 The trip to India
07:03 Across The Universe outtake montage, incomplete
11:39 Threatles with ukelele, Deradoon demo
7 14:50 Apple Corp.
19:32 James Taylor
19:54 The Iveys (Badfinger)
20:34 Mary Hopkins
22:47 Lady Madonna promo film, interspersed with film
from the White Album sessions
8 25:14 Yellow Submarine, the movie
27:54 Beatles cameo in Yellow Submarine, All Together
Now
29:18 Yoko Ono
33:04 End credits, to While My Guitar Gently Weeps
demo
Disk 8 Side 1 49:55
Chap Time Description
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1 00:35 Ringo quits (slow Helter Skelter in background)
02:40 Making of the White Album
2 09:32 Revolution promo film
12:53 Closing the Apple Boutique
14:43 Intro sequence to Hey Jude film (great fun!)
3 15:42 Origins of Hey Jude
17:10 Hey Jude promo film
4 23:11 Get Back sessions
27:35 Paul and George argue on film
30:16 Magic Alex
31:13 Recording at Savile Row
5 36:02 The Long and Winding Road from Let It Be film
40:13 Let It Be outtake, discussion about rooftop concert
42:10 Don't Let Me Down, rooftop
45:50 Get Back, rooftop
Disk 8 Side 2 31:58
Chap Time Description
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6 00:00 Let It Be from Let It Be
04:02 Paul marries Linda Eastman
04:58 Drug raids
07:07 John marries Yoko
7 10:01 Breaking up
12:10 Allan Klein
8 15:31 Abbey Road
16:50 Something promo film
23:48 Film from last photo session
9 24:27 Talking about Free As A Bird
29:50 End credits, to studio outtakes
Total running time: 9 hours 51 minutes 54 seconds