The Beatles Anthology Collection (2025 Edition): 8CD Boxset will be released on November 21, 2025, celebrating and expanding one of the most beloved collections in rock history. This collector’s dream delivers remastered classics, alternate takes, rare demos, and the premiere of “Anthology 4,” filled with previously unreleased gems.
The Beatles Anthology Collection (2025 Edition) – 8CD Boxset Arrives November 21
For Beatles fans worldwide, this fall brings a landmark: the definitive Anthology Collection (2025 Edition), arriving November 21. This 8CD boxset features remastered sound from the original Anthology albums, new liner notes, unseen archival art, and the expanded “Anthology 4,” packed with rarities and lost tracks.
What’s Inside?
- Remastered Anthology 1, 2, and 3
- Anthology 4: 2 discs of unreleased studio takes, demos, rehearsals, and alternate mixes
- Original “Free As A Bird” and “Real Love,” plus the 2025 mixes and “Now And Then”
Tracklist Highlights
Below is a selection from the full 8CD tracklist:
Anthology 1 (Disc 1)
- Free As A Bird (1995 mix)
- John Lennon Speech 1
- That’ll Be The Day
- In Spite Of All The Danger
- Paul McCartney Speech 1
- Hallelujah, I Love Her So (Home demo)
- You’ll Be Mine (Home demo)
- Cayenne (Home demo)
- Paul McCartney Speech 2
- My Bonnie
- Ain’t She Sweet
- Cry For A Shadow
- John Lennon Speech 2
- Brian Epstein Speech 1
- Searchin’ (Decca audition)
- Three Cool Cats (Decca audition)
- The Sheik Of Araby (Decca audition)
- Like Dreamers Do (Decca audition)
- Hello Little Girl (Decca audition)
- Brian Epstein Speech 2
- Besame Mucho (June 1962 version)
- Love Me Do (First Version)
- How Do You Do It
- Please Please Me (First Version)
- One After 909 (Takes 3, 4 and 5)
Anthology 2 (Disc 1)
- Real Love (1996 mix)
- Yes It Is (Takes 2 and 14)
- I’m Down (Take 1)
- You’ve Got To Hide Your Love Away (Take 5)
- If You’ve Got Trouble (Take 1)
- That Means A Lot (Take 1)
- Yesterday (Take 1)
- It’s Only Love (Takes 3 and 2)
- I Feel Fine (Blackpool Night Out)
- Ticket To Ride (Blackpool Night Out)
- Yesterday (Blackpool Night Out)
- Help! (Blackpool Night Out)
- Everybody’s Trying To Be My Baby (Live at Shea Stadium)
- Norwegian Wood (This Bird Has Flown) (Take 1)
- I’m Looking Through You (Take 1)
- 12-Bar Original (Take 2 edited)
- Tomorrow Never Knows (Take 1)
- Got To Get You Into My Life (Take 5)
- And Your Bird Can Sing (Take 2)
- Taxman (Take 11)
Anthology 3 (Disc 1)
- A Beginning (Take 4)
- Happiness Is A Warm Gun (Demo)
- Helter Skelter (First take)
- Mean Mr. Mustard (Demo)
- Polythene Pam (Demo)
- Glass Onion (Demo)
- Junk (Demo)
…and much more
Anthology 4 (Disc 1 & 2)
- I Saw Her Standing There (Take 2)
- Money (That’s What I Want) (RM7 undubbed)
- This Boy (Takes 12 and 13)
- Tell Me Why (Takes 4 and 5)
- If I Fell (Take 11)
- Matchbox (Take 1)
- Every Little Thing (Takes 6 and 7)
- Love You To (Take 7)
- Strawberry Fields Forever (Take 26)
- Baby, You’re A Rich Man (Takes 11 and 12)
- All You Need Is Love (BBC rehearsal)
- Hey Bulldog (Take 4 – instrumental)
- Good Night (Take 10)
- While My Guitar Gently Weeps (Take 27)
- Helter Skelter (Take 17)
- Get Back (Take 8)
- Octopus’s Garden (Rehearsal)
- Don’t Let Me Down (First rooftop)
- You Never Give Me Your Money (Take 36)
- Here Comes The Sun (Take 9)
- Something (Take 39 – strings only)
- Free As A Bird (2025 mix)
- Real Love (2025 mix)
- Now And Then




