
“The end has finally arrived,” The Beatles’ company Apple Corps announced with a dramatic flourish in 1996. The occasion was the release of Anthology 3, the last in a trilogy of archival compilation albums. They were part of a multipronged retrospective encompassing a book, television documentary series and two new singles, “Free as a Bird” and “Real Love”, which had been contrived by the surviving Beatles from unreleased demos by John Lennon.
“终章终于到来。”1996年,披头士(The Beatles)的公司苹果唱片公司(Apple Corps)以戏剧性的口吻宣布。契机是《选集3》(Anthology 3)的发行——这是该档案合辑三部曲的收官之作。该项目是一次多线回顾的一部分,涵盖一本书、一部电视纪录片系列,以及两首新单曲《Free as a Bird》和《Real Love》,由仍在世的披头士成员根据约翰•列侬(John Lennon)的未发表小样“拼合”而成。