Anthology 2

Tracklist

• Digital Media 1
• 1
  Real Love
  3:54
  4.1 ★
• 2
  Yes It Is
  1:50
  2.6 ★
• 3
  I’m Down (take 1)
  2:53
  3.0 ★
• 4
  You’ve Got to Hide Your Love Away (take 5)
  2:45
  3.5 ★
• 5
  If You’ve Got Trouble
  2:48
  3.0 ★
• 6
  That Means a Lot
  2:26
  2.0 ★
• 7
  Yesterday
  2:34
  4.6 ★
• 8
  It’s Only Love
  1:58
  2.8 ★
• 9
  I Feel Fine (live from the ABC Theatre, Blackpool, UK/1965)
  2:16
  3.0 ★
• 10
  Ticket to Ride (live from the ABC Theatre, Blackpool, UK/1965)
  2:45
  3.5 ★
• 11
  Yesterday (live from the ABC Theatre, Blackpool, UK/1965)
  2:43
  4.0 ★
• 12
  Help! (live from the ABC Theatre, Blackpool, UK/1965)
  2:55
  3.5 ★
• 13
  Everybody’s Trying to Be My Baby (live from Shea Stadium, New York, USA/1965)
  2:45
  3.0 ★
• 14
  Norwegian Wood (This Bird Has Flown) (take 1)
  1:59
  3.0 ★
• 15
  I’m Looking Through You
  2:54
  3.5 ★
• 16
  12 Bar Original
  2:55
  3.0 ★
• 17
  Tomorrow Never Knows (take 1)
  3:14
  2.9 ★
• 18
  Got to Get You Into My Life (take 5)
  2:54
  2.4 ★
• 19
  And Your Bird Can Sing (take 2)
  2:13
  3.9 ★
• 20
  Taxman (take 11)
  2:32
  3.5 ★
• 21
  Eleanor Rigby (strings only)
  2:06
  3.9 ★
• 22
  I’m Only Sleeping (rehearsal / instrumental)
  0:41
  4.0 ★
• 23
  I’m Only Sleeping (take 1)
  2:59
  4.0 ★
• 24
  Rock and Roll Music (live from Nippon Budokan Hall, Tokyo, Japan/1966)
  1:39
  3.0 ★
• 25
  She’s a Woman (live from Nippon Budokan Hall, Tokyo, Japan/1966)
  2:59
  3.0 ★
• Digital Media 2
• 1
  Strawberry Fields Forever (demo sequence)
  1:42
  3.0 ★
• 2
  Strawberry Fields Forever (take 1)
  2:34
  3.0 ★
• 3
  Strawberry Fields Forever (take 7 and edit piece)
  4:13
  3.6 ★
• 4
  Penny Lane (alternate mix)
  3:13
  3.5 ★
• 5
  A Day in the Life
  5:05
  4.4 ★
• 6
  Good Morning Good Morning (take 8)
  2:40
  4.1 ★
• 7
  Only a Northern Song
  2:44
  4.0 ★
• 8
  Being for the Benefit of Mr Kite! (takes 1 & 2)
  1:06
  3.0 ★
• 9
  Being for the Benefit of Mr Kite! (take 7)
  2:34
  3.6 ★
• 10
  Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds (alternate mix)
  3:05
  3.5 ★
• 11
  Within You, Without You (instrumental)
  5:28
  3.2 ★
• 12
  Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band (reprise)
  1:27
  4.0 ★
• 13
  You Know My Name (Look Up the Number)
  5:43
  3.0 ★
• 14
  I Am the Walrus (take 16)
  4:02
  3.5 ★
• 15
  The Fool on the Hill (demo)
  2:48
  3.5 ★
• 16
  Your Mother Should Know (take 27)
  3:02
  4.6 ★
• 17
  The Fool on the Hill (take 4)
  3:45
  3.5 ★
• 18
  Hello, Goodbye (take 16)
  3:18
  3.8 ★
• 19
  Lady Madonna (alternate mix)
  2:22
  2.8 ★
• 20
  Across the Universe (take 2)
  3:32
  4.0 ★

More by The Beatles

Abbey Road

Abbey Road 1969

Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band

Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band 1967

Rubber Soul

Rubber Soul 1965

Please Please Me

Please Please Me 1963

Revolver

Revolver 1966

Let It Be

Let It Be 1970

Release credits

• Alan Civil
  French horn [5]
• Alan Dalziel
  cello [5]
• Alan Loveday
  violin [11]
• Alex Nifosi
  cello [5]
• Alfred Waters
  bassoon [5]
• Allen Ford
  cello [11]
• Amiya Dasgupta
  tabla [11]
• Amrit Gajjar
  dilruba [11]
• Anna Joshi
  dilruba [11]
• Basil Tschaikov
  clarinet [5]
• Bernard Davis
  viola [5]
• Bert Courtley
  trumpet [4]
• Bill Monro
  violin [5]
• Brian Jones
  saxophone [13]
• Buddhadev Kansara
  tambura [11]
• Chris Thomas
  producer [13]
• Clifford Seville
  flute [5]
• Cyril MacArthur
  double bass [5]
• David Mason
  piccolo trumpet [4], trumpet [5]
• David McCallum
  violin [5]
• David Sanderman
  flute [5]
• David Wolfsthal
  violin [11]
• Denis Vigay
  cello [5]
• Dennis Walton
  flute [4]
• Derek Simpson
  cello [21]
• Dick Morgan
  cor anglais [4], oboe [4]
• Donald Weekes
  violin [5]
• Duncan Campbell
  trumpet [4]
• Erich Gruenberg
  violin [11]
• Erich Gruhberg
  violin [5]
• Ernest Scott
  violin [5]
• Francisco Gabarro
  cello [5]
• Frank Clarke
  double bass [4]
• Freddy Clayton
  trumpet [4]
• Geoff Emerick
  engineer [2.2-16, 2.19, 1.1, 1.17-23], producer [13]
• George Harrison
  12 string guitar [19], acoustic guitar [1.1, 1.15, 2.10, 2.17], background vocals [1.1, 1.6, 1.18, 2.18-19], classical guitar [4], electric guitar [2.2-3, 2.10, 2.12, 2.14, 2.18-19, 1.1, 1.5-6, 1.13, 1.15-16, 1.19-20, 1.24-25], guitar [2.13, 1.2-3, 1.8-10, 1.12], lead vocals [1.13, 1.20, 2.7], maracas [5], mellotron [2], organ [7], percussion [1], phonographic copyright [1], producer [1], sitar [14], tambourine [8-9], tambura [2.11, 1.17], vibraphone [13], vocal [9]
• George Martin
  conductor [1.21, 2.11], harmonium [2.8-9, 1.16], orchestrator [1.21, 2.5, 2.11], piano [4], producer [2.1-20, 1.2-25]
• Gordon Pearce
  double bass [5]
• Granville Jones
  violin [5]
• Gwynne Edwards
  viola [5]
• Hans Geiger
  violin [5]
• Harold Jackson
  trumpet [5]
• Harry Klein
  baritone saxophone [19]
• Henry Datyner
  violin [5]
• Jack Brymer
  clarinet [5]
• Jack Greene
  violin [11]
• Jack Rothstein
  violin [11]
• Jeff Jarratt
  engineer [13]
• Jeff Lynne
  background vocals [1], guitar [1], producer [1]
• John Lennon
  12 string guitar [4], acoustic guitar [2.1, 2.5, 2.20, 1.2, 1.14-15], background vocals [1.5-6, 1.18-20, 1.25, 2.18-19], bongos [18], congas [4], drum machine [1], electric guitar [2.2-3, 2.12, 2.19, 1.5-6, 1.13, 1.16, 1.19, 1.24-25], electric piano [14], glockenspiel [7], guitar [1.3, 1.8-10, 1.12, 2.6, 2.13], lead vocals [1.1-2, 1.4, 1.8-10, 1.12, 1.14, 1.17, 1.19, 1.23-24, 2.1-6, 2.8-10, 2.13-14, 2.20], maracas [10, 13], organ [18], piano [2.4, 1.1], producer [1], tambourine [7]
• John Marston
  harp [5]
• John Meek
  viola [5]
• John Sharpe
  violin [21]
• John Underwood
  viola [1.21, 2.5]
• Jon Jacobs
  engineer [1]
• Julian Gaillard
  violin [11]
• Jurgen Hess
  violin [2.5, 1.21]
• Ken Scott
  engineer [16-20]
• Leon Calvert
  trumpet [4]
• Lionel Bentley
  violin [5]
• Mal Evans
  spoken vocals [5]
• Manny Winters
  flute [4]
• Marc Mann
  editor [1]
• Michael Barnes
  tuba [5]
• Mike Winfield
  cor anglais [4], oboe [4]
• Monty Montgomery
  trumpet [5]
• Neil Aspinall
  tambura [11]
• Neill Sanders
  French horn [5]
• Norman Jones
  cello [21]
• Norman Smith
  engineer [2-8, 14-16]
• Paul McCartney
  acoustic guitar [2.17, 1.1, 1.7], background vocals [1.1, 1.5, 1.18-20, 2.9-10, 2.18], bass guitar [1.1-2, 1.4-6, 1.8-10, 1.12-17, 1.19-20, 1.24-25, 2.2-3, 2.5-10, 2.12-13, 2.13, 2.19], conductor [5], double bass [1], electric guitar [5], grand piano [6], guitar [11], harmonium [4, 16], lead vocals [1.3, 1.6-7, 1.10-11, 1.15, 1.18, 1.23, 1.25, 2.4-5, 2.12-13, 2.15-19, 2.19], mellotron [2-3], organ [10], percussion [1], phonographic copyright [1], piano [4-5, 13, 15-19, 19], producer [1], recorder [17], synthesizer [1], tambourine [14], trumpet [7], vocal [9, 14]
• Paul Scherman
  violin [11]
• Peter Beavan
  cello [11]
• Ralph Elman
  violin [11]
• Ray Premru
  trombone [5]
• Ray Swinfield
  flute [4]
• Raymond Brown
  trombone [5]
• Reginald Kilbey
  cello [11]
• Ringo Starr
  background vocals [1], bongos [13], congas [5], cymbal [14], drums (drum set) [1.1-6, 1.8-10, 1.12-13, 1.15-20, 1.22, 1.24-25, 2.2-3, 2.5-10, 2.12-13, 2.13-14, 2.16-19], harmonium [15], lead vocals [5], maracas [18], percussion [1], phonographic copyright [1], producer [1], snare drum [14], tambourine [1.19, 2.4, 2.18], tubular bells [4]
• Roger Lord
  oboe [5]
• Ronnie Scott
  tenor saxophone [19]
• Sidney Sax
  violin [1.21, 2.5]
• Stephen Shingles
  viola [21]
• Tony Gilbert
  violin [21]
• Tristan Fry
  percussion [5]
• Show all credits (85)

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