Anthology 2

Tracklist

• 12" Vinyl 1
• 1
  Real Love (Recorded in New York, 1979 and Sussex, February 1995)
  3:54
  4.1 ★
• 2
  Yes It Is (Recorded at EMI Studios, London, 16 February 1965)
  1:50
  2.6 ★
• 3
  I'm Down (Recorded at EMI Studios, London, 14 June 1965)
  2:53
  3.0 ★
• 4
  You've Got to Hide Your Love Away (Recorded at EMI Studios, London, 18 February 1965)
  2:44
  3.5 ★
• 5
  If You've Got Trouble (Recorded at EMI Studios, London, 18 February 1965)
  2:48
  3.0 ★
• 6
  That Means a Lot (Recorded at EMI Studios, London, 20 February 1965)
  2:26
  2.0 ★
• 7
  Yesterday (Recorded at EMI Studios, London, 14 February 1965)
  2:33
  4.6 ★
• 8
  It's Only Love (Recorded at EMI Studios, London, 15 June 1965)
  1:58
  2.8 ★
• 9
  I Feel Fine (Recorded at ABC Theatre, Blackpool, 1 August 1965)
  2:15
  3.0 ★
• 10
  Ticket to Ride (Recorded at ABC Theatre, Blackpool, 1 August 1965)
  2:44
  3.5 ★
• 11
  Yesterday (Recorded at ABC Theatre, Blackpool, 1 August 1965)
  2:42
  4.0 ★
• 12
  Help! (Recorded at ABC Theatre, Blackpool, 1 August 1965)
  2:54
  3.5 ★
• 13
  Everybody's Trying to Be My Baby (Recorded at Shea Stadium, New York, 15 August 1965)
  2:45
  3.0 ★
• 14
  Norwegian Wood (This Bird Has Flown) (Recorded at EMI Studios, London, 12 October 1965)
  1:59
  3.0 ★
• 15
  I'm Looking Through You (Recorded at EMI Studios, London, 24 October 1965)
  2:53
  3.5 ★
• 16
  12-Bar Original (Recorded at EMI Studios, London, 4 November 1965)
  2:55
  3.0 ★
• 12" Vinyl 2
• 1
  Tomorrow Never Knows (Recorded at EMI Studios, London, 6 April 1966)
  3:14
  2.9 ★
• 2
  Got to Get You Into My Life (Recorded at EMI Studios, London, 7 April 1966)
  2:54
  2.4 ★
• 3
  And Your Bird Can Sing (Recorded at EMI Studios, London, 20 April 1966)
  2:13
  3.9 ★
• 4
  Taxman (Recorded at EMI Studios, London, 21 April 1966)
  2:32
  3.5 ★
• 5
  Eleanor Rigby (Strings Only) (Recorded at EMI Studios, London, 28 April 1966)
  2:06
  3.9 ★
• 6
  I'm Only Sleeping (Rehearsal) (Recorded at EMI Studios, London, 29 April 1966)
  0:40
  4.0 ★
• 7
  I'm Only Sleeping (take 1) (Recorded at EMI Studios, London, 29 April 1966)
  2:59
  4.0 ★
• 8
  Rock and Roll Music (Recorded at Nippon Budokan Hall, Tokyo, 30 June 1966)
  1:39
  3.0 ★
• 9
  She's a Woman (Recorded at Nippon Budokan Hall, Tokyo, 30 June 1966)
  2:54
  3.0 ★
• 10
  Strawberry Fields Forever (demo Sequence) (Recorded at "Kenwood", Weybridge, Surrey, November 1966)
  1:42
  3.0 ★
• 11
  Strawberry Fields Forever (take 1) (Recorded at EMI Studios, London, 24 November 1966)
  2:34
  3.0 ★
• 12
  Strawberry Fields Forever (take 7 and edit Piece) (Recorded at EMI Studios, London, 29 November and 9 December 1966)
  4:13
  3.6 ★
• 13
  Penny Lane (Recorded at EMI Studios, London, 29 and 30 December 1966; 4, 5, 6, 9, 10, 12 and 17 January 1967)
  3:12
  3.5 ★
• 14
  A Day in the Life (Recorded at EMI Studios, London, 19 and 20 January and 10 February 1967)
  5:04
  4.4 ★
• 15
  Good Morning Good Morning (Recorded at EMI Studios, London, 8 and 16 February 1967)
  2:40
  4.1 ★
• 16
  Only a Northern Song (Recorded at EMI Studios, London, 13, 14 February and 20 April 1967)
  2:43
  4.0 ★
• 12" Vinyl 3
• 1
  Being for the Benefit of Mr. Kite! (Takes 1 and 2) (Recorded at EMI Studios, London, 17 and 20 February 1967)
  1:05
  3.0 ★
• 2
  Being for the Benefit of Mr. Kite! (take 7) (Recorded at EMI Studios, London, 17 and 20 February 1967)
  2:33
  3.6 ★
• 3
  Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds (Recorded at EMI Studios, London, 1 and 2 March 1967)
  3:05
  3.5 ★
• 4
  Within You Without You (instrumental) (Recorded at EMI Studios, London, 15, 16 and 22 March and 3 April 1967)
  5:27
  3.2 ★
• 5
  Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (reprise) (Recorded at EMI Studios, London, 1 April 1967)
  1:27
  4.0 ★
• 6
  You Know My Name (Look Up the Number) (Recorded at EMI Studios, London, 17 May and 7, 8 June 1967, 20 April 1969)
  5:43
  3.0 ★
• 7
  I Am the Walrus (Recorded at EMI Studios, London, 5 September 1967)
  4:01
  3.5 ★
• 8
  The Fool on the Hill (demo) (Recorded at EMI Studios, London, 6 September 1967)
  2:48
  3.5 ★
• 9
  Your Mother Should Know (Recorded at EMI Studios, London, 16 September 1967)
  3:02
  4.6 ★
• 10
  The Fool on the Hill (take 4) (Recorded at EMI Studios, London, 25 September 1967)
  3:44
  3.5 ★
• 11
  Hello, Goodbye (Recorded at EMI Studios, London, 2 and 29 October 1967)
  3:17
  3.8 ★
• 12
  Lady Madonna (Recorded at EMIStudios, London, 3 and 6 February 1968)
  2:22
  2.8 ★
• 13
  Across the Universe (Recorded at EMI Studios, London, 3 February 1968)
  3:28
  4.0 ★

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Abbey Road 1969

Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band

Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band 1967

Rubber Soul

Rubber Soul 1965

Revolver

Revolver 1966

Please Please Me

Please Please Me 1963

Help!

Help! 1965

Release credits

• Alan Civil
  French horn [14]
• Alan Dalziel
  cello [14]
• Alan Loveday
  violin [4]
• Alex Nifosi
  cello [14]
• Alfred Waters
  bassoon [14]
• Allen Ford
  cello [4]
• Amiya Dasgupta
  tabla [4]
• Amrit Gajjar
  dilruba [4]
• Anna Joshi
  dilruba [4]
• Basil Tschaikov
  clarinet [14]
• Bernard Davis
  viola [14]
• Bert Courtley
  trumpet [13]
• Bill Monro
  violin [14]
• Brian Jones
  saxophone [6]
• Buddhadev Kansara
  tambura [4]
• Chris Thomas
  producer [6]
• Clifford Seville
  flute [14]
• Cyril MacArthur
  double bass [14]
• David Mason
  piccolo trumpet [13], trumpet [14]
• David McCallum
  violin [14]
• David Sanderman
  flute [14]
• David Wolfsthal
  violin [4]
• Denis Vigay
  cello [14]
• Dennis Walton
  flute [13]
• Derek Simpson
  cello [5]
• Dick Morgan
  cor anglais [13], oboe [13]
• Donald Weekes
  violin [14]
• Duncan Campbell
  trumpet [13]
• Erich Gruenberg
  violin [4]
• Erich Gruhberg
  violin [14]
• Ernest Scott
  violin [14]
• Francisco Gabarro
  cello [14]
• Frank Clarke
  double bass [13]
• Freddy Clayton
  trumpet [13]
• Geoff Emerick
  engineer [3.1-9, 3.12, 1.1, 2.1-7, 2.11-16], producer [6]
• George Harrison
  12 string guitar [3], acoustic guitar [1.1, 1.15, 3.3, 3.10], background vocals [2.2, 1.1, 1.6, 3.11-12], classical guitar [4], electric guitar [3.3, 3.5, 3.7, 3.11-12, 2.3-4, 2.8-9, 2.11-12, 1.1, 1.5-6, 1.13, 1.15-16], guitar [3.6, 1.2-3, 1.8-10, 1.12], lead vocals [2.4, 2.16, 1.13], maracas [14], mellotron [11], organ [16], percussion [1], phonographic copyright [1], producer [1], sitar [14], tambourine [1-2], tambura [2.1, 3.4], vibraphone [6], vocal [9]
• George Martin
  producer, conductor [3.4, 2.5], harmonium [3.1-2, 1.16], orchestrator [2.5, 2.14, 3.4], piano [13], producer [2.1-16, 3.1-13, 1.2-16]
• Gordon Pearce
  double bass [14]
• Granville Jones
  violin [14]
• Gwynne Edwards
  viola [14]
• Hans Geiger
  violin [14]
• Harold Jackson
  trumpet [14]
• Harry Klein
  baritone saxophone [12]
• Henry Datyner
  violin [14]
• Jack Brymer
  clarinet [14]
• Jack Greene
  violin [4]
• Jack Rothstein
  violin [4]
• Jeff Jarratt
  engineer [6]
• Jeff Lynne
  background vocals [1], guitar [1], producer [1]
• John Lennon
  12 string guitar [4], acoustic guitar [2.10, 2.14, 3.13, 1.2, 1.14-15], background vocals [1.5-6, 3.11-12, 2.2-4, 2.9], bongos [11], congas [13], drum machine [1], electric guitar [2.3, 2.8-9, 2.11-12, 1.5-6, 1.13, 1.16, 3.5, 3.12], electric piano [7], glockenspiel [16], guitar [3.6, 2.15, 1.3, 1.8-10, 1.12], lead vocals [2.1, 2.3, 2.7-8, 2.10-15, 3.1-3, 3.6-7, 3.13, 1.1-2, 1.4, 1.8-10, 1.12, 1.14], maracas [3, 6], organ [11], piano [1.1, 2.13], producer [1], tambourine [16]
• John Marston
  harp [14]
• John Meek
  viola [14]
• John Sharpe
  violin [5]
• John Underwood
  viola [5, 14]
• Jon Jacobs
  engineer [1]
• Julian Gaillard
  violin [4]
• Jurgen Hess
  violin [5, 14]
• Ken Scott
  engineer [9-13]
• Leon Calvert
  trumpet [13]
• Lionel Bentley
  violin [14]
• Mal Evans
  spoken vocals [14]
• Manny Winters
  flute [13]
• Marc Mann
  editor [1]
• Michael Barnes
  tuba [14]
• Mike Winfield
  cor anglais [13], oboe [13]
• Monty Montgomery
  trumpet [14]
• Neil Aspinall
  tambura [4]
• Neill Sanders
  French horn [14]
• Norman Jones
  cello [5]
• Norman Smith
  engineer [2-8, 14-16]
• Paul McCartney
  acoustic guitar [3.10, 1.1, 1.7], background vocals [1.1, 1.5, 2.2-4, 3.2-3, 3.11], bass guitar [2.1, 2.3-4, 2.8-9, 2.11-12, 2.14-16, 1.1-2, 1.4-6, 1.8-10, 1.12-16, 3.1-3, 3.5-6, 3.6, 3.12], conductor [14], double bass [1], electric guitar [5], grand piano [6], guitar [11], harmonium [2.13, 3.9], lead vocals [3.5-6, 3.8-12, 3.12, 2.2, 2.7, 2.9, 2.13-14, 1.3, 1.6-7, 1.10-11, 1.15], mellotron [11-12], organ [3], percussion [1], phonographic copyright [1], piano [2.13-14, 3.6, 3.8-12, 3.12], producer [1], recorder [10], synthesizer [1], tambourine [7], trumpet [16], vocal [9, 14]
• Paul Scherman
  violin [4]
• Peter Beavan
  cello [4]
• Ralph Elman
  violin [4]
• Ray Premru
  trombone [14]
• Ray Swinfield
  flute [13]
• Raymond Brown
  trombone [14]
• Reginald Kilbey
  cello [4]
• Ringo Starr
  background vocals [1], bongos [6], congas [14], cymbal [14], drums (drum set) [3.1-3, 3.5-6, 3.6-7, 3.9-12, 1.1-6, 1.8-10, 1.12-13, 1.15-16, 2.1-4, 2.6, 2.8-9, 2.11-12, 2.14-16], harmonium [15], lead vocals [5], maracas [11], percussion [1], phonographic copyright [1], producer [1], snare drum [14], tambourine [2.3, 2.13, 3.11], tubular bells [13]
• Roger Lord
  oboe [14]
• Ronnie Scott
  tenor saxophone [12]
• Sidney Sax
  violin [5, 14]
• Stephen Shingles
  viola [5]
• Tony Gilbert
  violin [5]
• Tristan Fry
  percussion [14]
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Issues

• 

  A
  (Combined release view)
• 

  A
  Anthology 2

  2x CD
  18 March 1996
• 

  A
  Anthology 2

  3x 12" Vinyl
  18 March 1996
• 

  A
  Anthology 2

  2x CD
  18 March 1996
• 

  A
  Anthology 2

  2x CD
  19 March 1996
• 

  A
  Anthology 2

  2x CD
  1996
• 

  A
  Anthology 2

  2x Digital Media
  January 2014
• 

  A
  Anthology 2

  2x Digital Media (remastered)
  4 April 2016
• 

  A
  Anthology 2

  Digital Media (2025 remaster)
  29 August 2025
• A
  Anthology 2

  CD
  1996