From rare recordings with Stuart Sutcliffe and Pete Best in their short time with The Beatles to the band fine-tuning their live skills from Hamburg to Sweden, the first in the Anthology series is filled with historic milestones and incredible music. Anthology 1 leads off with “Free As a Bird,” originally a demo recorded by John Lennon in 1977 and reworked by George Harrison, Ringo Starr, and Paul McCartney in 1994. From there, this collection chronicles the band’s fiery, R&B-fueled years from 1958 through 1964 and features previously unreleased recordings, live versions, alternate takes, and interview snippets of the band as they began to set the world aflame.