The expansive “Beatles Anthology” looks beyond the band’s mythology
LONDON: A new episode of Beatles Anthology30 years after the landmark original series, it shows the impact on Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr of being in the biggest rock band in history, said its writer and director. The original eight-part documentary, broadcast in 1995, covered the band’s rough early days in Liverpool and Hamburg through to the phenomenon of Beatlemania and global superstardom and break-up in 1970. THE Anthology project included the single free as a bird was created in the 1990s from a demo recorded by John Lennon in 1977, three years before he was murdered. The
