![]() These priceless Esher pearls include spirited previews of “Mean Mr Mustard” and “Polythene Pam” John Lennon’s raw, feverish take of “Happiness Is a Warm Gun” Harrison’s subtly vitriolic “Piggies” and Paul McCartney’s unprepossessing “Junk” (which he later re-cut for his 1970 debut solo album). The extraordinary 1968 demos at the start of Anthology 3 - seven songs taped in gorgeous, unplugged form at George Harrison’s home in Esher, England, shortly before the sessions for the epic double album The Beatles (better known as the White Album) - show that those who make history are often the least qualified to judge it. ![]() For more than two decades after the Beatles broke up, the band members and their producer, George Martin, insisted that everything of quality that they created in the studio was already a matter of record - that there was nothing left worthy of reconsideration, much less release. ![]()
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