The Beatles Anthology Book is the print version of The Beatles’ own archive story. First published in 2000 and reissued in 2025 for its 25th anniversary, it tells the band’s history mainly through the words of John Lennon, Paul McCartney,…
The Beatles Anthology Collection is the 2025 box set that brings the original three Anthology albums together with the newly created Anthology 4. Released on 21 November 2025, it expands the music side of The Beatles Anthology into a four-volume…
Anthology 4 is The Beatles’ 2025 album that extends the original 1990s Anthology music series with rare session material, restored archive tracks, new mixes of the reunion singles, and the band’s final single, “Now And Then”. Released on 21 November…
The Beatles: 1964 U.S. Albums In Mono, also styled as 1964 US Albums In Mono, is a 2024 8LP vinyl box set collecting seven early American Beatles albums originally issued by Capitol Records and United Artists between January 1964 and…
The Beatles 20 Greatest Hits Album matters because it shows how the Beatles catalogue was being simplified for the early-1980s hits market. Released in 1982, the album tried to compress the band’s chart story onto one LP, but it immediately…
The Beatles Reel Music Album matters because it shows how the Beatles catalogue was being repackaged around film nostalgia in the early 1980s. Released in 1982, the album gathered 14 songs connected with the band’s screen work, from A Hard…
The Beatles Ballads Album matters because it shows another way the Beatles catalogue was being repackaged after the group had ended. Released in 1980, the album gathered 20 softer Beatles tracks into one single-LP collection, presenting the band through melody,…
The Beatles Love Songs Album matters because it shows how the Beatles catalogue was being reshaped for a new market in the late 1970s. Released in 1977, the double album gathered romantic ballads, softer Lennon-McCartney songs, George Harrison love songs,…
The Rock ‘n’ Roll Music album matters because it shows how the Beatles catalogue was being repackaged in the mid-1970s, after the band had split but before the catalogue was properly standardised. Released in 1976, the double album pulled together…
The Beatles Rarities Album matters because it shows how confusing the Beatles catalogue once was. Before Past Masters, before the CD catalogue standardised the story, and long before streaming made most tracks easy to find, a Beatles fan could still…
