The Beatles Anthology is expected to be the major project for the band for 2025 following the announcement that the book ‘The Beatles Anthology’ will be republished in October.
‘The Beatles Anthology’ book was released at the time of three volume The Beatles Anthology albums and the documentary with The Beatles telling their story for the first time in depth.
With a 25th anniversary of the book is scheduled for October. It is expected that maybe the Anthology albums and documentary may also be given an update around this time. October is usually the time The Beatles share their reissues.
The Beatles Anthology three part documentary premiered on television in November 1995. The first of the three Anthology albums was also released in November 1995. The first episode premiered the new song ‘Free As A Bird’.
The second episode featured ‘Real Love’.
The third was planned to include the recently released ‘Now and Then’ but as George Harrison wasn’t happy with it, only the new two songs were included.
Now with Peter Jackson’s technology, the cleaned by ‘Now and Then’ is superior to the 30 year old ‘Free As A Bird’ and ‘Real Love’ productions.The last Beatles project was the extended 2023 remixes of ‘1962-1966’ (Blue) and ‘1967-1970’ ‘Red’ albums. While those two compilations were each released with extra tracks (including the new song ‘Now and Then), the absence of the new songs from ‘Anthology’, ‘Free As A Bird’ and ‘Real Love’ were both strangely not included. That started the speculation of an updated ‘Anthology’.
While the Anthology book is now available for pre-order on Amazon, an official announcement by the albums and documentary is yet to be revealed.
USA orders are now on Amazon for the 14 October 2025 release for $50. The UK release is scheduled for one month later on 20 November 2025 retailing at £40. An Australian price is yet to be determined.
‘Anthology’ seems a low priority if it is true. 2025 marks the 60th anniversary of ‘Help!’ in August and ‘Rubber Soul’ in December. A Beatles ’65 box containing both of those albums plus out-takes or even just a ‘Rubber Soul’ box seems to be what the fans want. With the Red and Blue releases, most tracks from those albums have been remastered. The Beatles were releasing new music rapid fire at the time. There would be hardly any unreleased new songs but there are plenty of alternate versions in the vaults.
Also the recent discovery of the Decca audition tape in Canada generates possibility but at this stage not probability of a Decca Tapes album sometime in the future. This is a one on one copy meaning it is the best quality of any recording in existence. It’s early days with that discovery but The Beatles don’t have a lot of time to do these projects with an aging fanbase. Original fans from the 60s and now all 60+. The top end of The Beatles demographic is dying off every day. Hopefully they’ll get these historic releases out while some of the original fans are still alive.
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