"What is more likely to reshape the way we see the band, though, is the addition of a brand-new ninth episode to the original TV series, built from recently excavated footage of Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr working together in 199495. Far more intimate and informal than the original broadcast, this material captures the three surviving Beatles rehearsing, reflecting and simply spending time as old friends rather than cultural monuments, albeit still with the kid brother tensions between Harrison and McCartney."
"They work on Free As a Bird and Now and Then, jokingly speculate on a stadium reunion tour and generally talk about their history, loss and their unfinished musical ideas. It's a rare, humanising coda to the well-worn story. With new material like this, and with more than that axiomatic 50 years of distance since the Beatles dissolved in a blizzard of lawsuits and funny paper, are we finally approaching a unified theory of everything fab?"
The expanded Beatles Anthology includes remastered documentary episodes, CD and vinyl reissues, and a major reissue campaign. A newly added ninth episode contains excavated 1994–95 footage of Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr working together. The footage shows the three rehearsing, reflecting, joking about reunion tours, and collaborating on Free As a Bird and Now and Then. The material presents them as old friends with lingering tensions and unfinished musical ideas, offering a humanising coda to their story. The release arrives after fifty years of distance and amid thousands of books that have reshaped public perceptions.
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