In 1991, more than two decades after The Beatles broke up, the three surviving band members at the time — Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr and George Harrison — reunited for a retrospective project that included an eight-episode documentary TV series, a four-volume set of double albums (including two new tracks with John Lennon) and a book. The undertaking was massive and took years to complete, but the idea was simple: to tell the story of The Beatles in their own words, at last.
Now, Disney+ has released a remastered version of the 1995 documentary, The Beatles Anthology, including a new ninth episode. The 50-minute bonus edit (out Nov. 28) includes unreleased footage of George, Paul and Ringo as they create the original Anthology series and music project, focusing mostly on their production of the song “Free as a Bird,” which they made using one of John’s left-behind cassette tapes, a workaround to the fact that he wasn’t alive to write new music with them.
“I think between the three of us — or the four of us at that time — [we agreed that] if one of us wasn’t in it, we weren’t going to go out as The Beatles,” Harrison said. “If we were to do something, the three of us, as interesting as it may be and as nice as we could sure make it, to have John in it is the obvious thing.”
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There’s not much about The Beatles that even a casual fan hasn’t heard before — the band has been so deeply embedded in the fabric of our lives for nearly six decades now. But the new Anthology footage is nonetheless an emotional watch, largely because of how sentimental George, Paul and Ringo get over the absence of their friend and bandmate.
“The good thing about the Anthology is that it’s four of us, you know, even though John’s not here, he’s here,” Paul said. “He’s represented, he talks. Okay, it’s old interviews and stuff — it doesn’t matter. He’s there. His point of view comes over.”
Keep reading for a roundup of all the sentimental things George, Paul and Ringo say about John in the new ninth episode of The Beatles Anthology.
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Every Sentimental Thing Paul, Ringo and George Said About John in the New Bonus Episode of the Remastered 'Beatles Anthology'
“It was interesting to actually get back together. You know, in some way I feel sorry for John, because the Beatles went through a lot of good times, but also went through some turbulent times, and as everybody knows, when we split up, everybody was a bit fed up with each other. But for Ringo, Paul and I, we’ve had the opportunity to have all that go down the river and under the bridge, and to get together again in a new light. And I feel a bit sorry that John wasn’t able to do that, and I think he would have really enjoyed this opportunity to be with us again. We’d all had enough time to breathe and I think it’s much easier to look at it now from a distance.”
Ringo Starr quotes about John
"The idea that we were gonna [write and record] together was very, very strange. Because we’d been meeting and chatting and doing the camera stuff, but now we were going to actually play, and that was a huge move for the three of us, you know, because there were four in that band, and in a way we had to get over that hurdle, that — though John’s coming out the speaker — he’s not here anymore. So, that was a very heavy time for me.”
"Just hearing the tape that was sent was pretty emotional. And then we got to the studio and it was difficult for a while — you know, he’s not here. We’re all here, where’s John? But we had to get over that. We got over that by feeling that he’d gone for lunch or he’s gone for a cup of tea."
"There’s three people still around, but the band isn’t here anymore. We could go out as George, Paul and Ringo, but not as The Beatles."
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Paul McCartney quotes about John
"It was emotional listneing to the tape for the first time, and obviously you had to study it a lot to know what to do with it, and that was emotional. I said to Ringo, I warned him, 'You better have your hankie ready to listen to this. Because it’s quite emotional hearing our old mate singing this old song, you know?"
“I’d said to the guys, let’s pretend that John's just gone on holiday and he’s rung up and he’s said, 'We’ve nearly finished the album, but here’s a song I kind of like but I haven’t finished it. Will you finish it up for me? I trust you.' That was the key word in the scenario we were, like, inventing for ourselves: 'I trust you. Just go and do your thing on it. Don’t mess about, just do it.' So with that in mind, we went in the studio.”
"I must be one of the people who knew John best out of his life — I must be in the top three. And I knew how he liked to work, I knew what excited him, I knew what excited him about music, certainly for the period I worked with him. And he would have been dead chuffed with this [song]."
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"Most days I remember John or have some thoughts of John, because he was such a big part of my life and I’m so proud to have known him and to have been a big part of his life. So most days I will think of him in one way or another. But, obviously, doing the Anthology, making the record, it was actually in the headphones while I was singing. Now, it’s been a long time since I’ve actually done that, you know? It was like the old days."
"I don’t think the three of us would be interested in going out and playing together, bc there’d be a hold on stage that you can’t fill."
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