The album includes material from the Beatles' days as the Quarrymen, through the Decca audition to sessions for the album Beatles for Sale. The Anthology albums were remastered and made available digitally on the iTunes Store on 14 June 2011, individually and as part of the Anthology Box Set. It reached number 2 on the UK albums chart. The album topped the Billboard 200 album chart and was certified 8× Platinum by the RIAA. It contains " Free as a Bird", the first new Beatles song in 25 years, which was released as a single two weeks after Anthology 1. It is the first in a trilogy of albums with Anthology 2 and Anthology 3, all of which tie in with the televised special The Beatles Anthology. It features rarities, outtakes and live performances from the period 1958–64, including songs with original bass player Stuart Sutcliffe and drummer Pete Best. It remained at the top of the chart for three weeks, and was certified platinum in America after six weeks.Anthology 1 is a compilation album by the Beatles, released on 20 November 1995 by Apple Records as part of The Beatles Anthology series. It became the first Beatles album to enter the US Billboard 200 chart at number one, with 855,473 copies sold. The album was a global commercial success. The worldwide release date was 21 November 1995. The releaseĪnthology 1 was issued as a double CD and triple vinyl collection. Best used the missing portion on the cover of his 2008 album Haymans Green.
Its centrepiece was an early image The Beatles which was torn to omit Pete Best, showing Ringo Starr instead. Voormann came up with an idea to paint The Beatles’ posters, photographs and album artwork with the effect of peeling layers, in a broad chronological order from left to right, charting the progression and development of The Beatles.Īnthology 1 featured the first third of the artwork. Klaus Voormann, who had previously designed the cover art for Revolver, was contacted in the early 1990s by Apple Records’ Neil Aspinall to create the artwork for the entire Anthology project. Additional research and sleevenotes were by renowned Beatles scholar and author Mark Lewisohn, who had collaborated with EMI and Apple on a number of other projects.
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