THE BEATLES ANTHOLOGY
The Beatles Anthology is a documentary series on the career of The Beatles. It was broadcast on UK television in six abridged parts on ITV between 19 and 23 November 1995, while in the United States it was seen as three feature-length episodes on ABC. An eight-volume VHS set and an eight-disc Laserdisc set were released on 5 September 1996. The series was re-released on DVD in 2003, with an 81-minute special-features disc. (More from Wikipedia)
When The Beatles Anthology documentary came out in 1995, I remember the filmmakers discussing how, in contrast to the mellow conversations from the three living bandmembers, they had to carefully select quotations from John Lennon who was often bitter and sarcastic about the Beatles. Lennon was assassinated at the age of 40, and the break-up of the Beatles was barely a decade in the past at that point.
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