Fifty-five years after their breakup, and several decades after the deaths of John Lennon and George Harrison, The Beatles are still releasing new music and creating new twists in their ever-expanding mythology. The biggest and most popular rock band in the world tends to assert a kind of definitive retrospective every few years, but in 2025, The Beatles are rebooting and expanding a previous multimedia project that was previously released back in 1995.
As detailed by Variety, The Beatles brand is set to release an expansion of The Beatles Anthology project from 1995. Back then, Anthology consisted of three double-albums, a massive coffee table book, and an eight-part documentary. Now, there will be a fourth album — Anthology 4 — a ninth episode of the documentary, and a newly revised book. Here’s what to know about each separate release date for the new Beatles Anthology 2025.
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October 14, 2025: New Beatles Anthology Book
The first of the new BeatlesAnthology releases will be the newly revised book, which is billed as the band’s “autobiography.” This will be a massive paperback release, which can already be pre-ordered on Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Books-A-Million, and elsewhere. The book retails for roughly $50.00, depending on where you get it.
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November 21, 2025: Beatles Anthology Music Releases
The main event of The Beatles Anthology 2025 is the release of the music collections. This will consist of reissues of the first three Beatles: Anthologies, which, in 1995, were each comprised of two CDs. The entire purpose of the Anthology albums was to present alternative takes, outtakes, and previously unreleased music. For this reason, none of the Anthology albums contain the “regular” Beatles recordings available on other albums or compilations.
Before the new release, there were only three Anthology collections, but now, there will be a fourth one. What’s on it? According to Variety:“13 previously unreleased demos and session recordings, alongside other outtakes that already appeared on the band’s deluxe editions in recent years.”
This means that if you’ve been following the “Super Deluxe” reissues of various Beatles albums over the past few years, some of those bonus tracks will be on the new Anthology 4, in addition to 13 previously unheard songs. On top of that, the new Anthology 4will contain remixed versions of “Free as a Bird” and “Real Love.”
These two songs were created for the previous Anthology albums back in 1995, and were each created from lost recordings from John Lennon, and, at the time, new recordings from Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr and George Harrison. This kind of thing happened again, in 2023, when McCartney and Starr collobrated to create “Now and Then,” another contemporary Beatles song which used a Lennon vocal track, with new contributions from the surviving members of the band.
November 26, 2025: Remastered Beatles Anthology Series Begins Streaming on Disney+
The final part of the this project is the re-release of the documentary series, The Beatles Anthology. The first three episodes of this series will start streaming on November 26, with subsequent episodes dropping weekly. The ninth and final episode of the series will be entirely new.
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