"There's no doubt that the arrival of The Beatles Anthology in 1995 was a big deal. The TV series was broadcast at prime time on both sides of the Atlantic, and ABC in the US even changed its name to ABeatlesC in its honour. The three accompanying albums (the first time the Beatles had allowed outtakes from their recording sessions to be officially released) sold in their millions."
"A steady stream of officially sanctioned documentaries, reissues, remixes, compilations and expanded editions, predicated on two ideas: that the Beatles' archive contains fathomless bounty; and that the band's story is so rich there's no limit to the number of times it can fruitfully be retold in fresh light. For a while, those ideas seemed to hold true, but recently, it's been hard not to think the Beatles' Apple Corps might be trying to feed an insatiable appetite"
"You can marvel at the highlights of Peter Jackson's TV series Get Back and still wonder whether the director wasn't stretching his material a little thin; whether nearly eight hours of it plus a separate Imax film of the Beatles' final live performance on the roof of Apple's London HQ, and a reissue of the original 1970 Let It Be documentary might have been rather too much of a good thing."
The Beatles Anthology's 1995 debut generated massive public attention and multi-million album sales, transforming archival releases into a sustained commercial industry. Subsequent output included documentaries, remixes, reissues, compilations and expanded editions built on the idea of limitless archival riches and endlessly retellable band narratives. Recent projects have begun to feel overextended, with lengthy restorations and repeated footage raising questions about the availability of genuinely new material. Major productions such as Peter Jackson's Get Back and a Scorsese-produced re-editing of 1964 footage exemplify a trend toward repackaging familiar content alongside modest additional outtakes.
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