"On the one hand, there was the music: three box-set Anthology collections, released on CD by Apple Records, full of studio outtakes and alternate versions. And on TV, there was an eight-hour documentary on ABC, which was shown across the globe and later released on home video. That was in 1995. Twenty-five years after The Beatles had broken up, it extended their legend, and their impact, for several more decades."
"It told the story of the group via performance, film and TV clips, and lots and lots of interviews. John Lennon who had been shot and killed 15 years earlier was represented in vintage interview clips. So were the other Beatles. But for the 1995 documentary, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr also sat still for new interviews, separately and together."
"When it comes to the key moment when John meets Paul and invites him to join his group, The Quarrymen, the documentary recounts it by having Paul, in 1995, playing on guitar and singing the song he sang for John, as a sort of audition, when they met. Then John, in an old interview, is heard picking up the story. It's told the same way in The Beatles Anthology 2025 as in the original only with crisper video and audio."
"Director Peter Jackson and his team, who turned outtake footage from the 1970 Let It Be documentary into the superb multi-part Get Back Beatles miniseries for Disney+, did some of the restoration work here. So did engineer Geoff Emerick and music producer Giles Martin, the son of The Beatles producer George Martin. Their combined efforts make all the music sound so much better."
Three box-set Anthology collections and an eight-hour ABC documentary in 1995 combined archival music and new interviews to extend The Beatles' legacy decades after their breakup. Vintage John Lennon clips appear alongside 1995 interviews with Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr. Key early moments are reconstructed by pairing Paul's 1995 performance with Lennon's vintage recollections. The 2025 Anthology preserves original sequences but upgrades video and audio quality. Restoration work by Peter Jackson, Geoff Emerick and Giles Martin enhances sound and led to a new fourth CD set; remastering across all volumes is a substantial technical improvement.
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