In the mid-1990s Apple managing director , Neil Aspinall began negotiations with Whitaker for the use of 300 of his images of the Beatles in the television documentary , The Beatles Anthology .
The Beatles Anthology proved to be a short - lived rapprochement :
In the mid-1990s Apple managing director , Neil Aspinall began negotiations with Whitaker for the use of 300 of his images of the Beatles in the television documentary , The Beatles Anthology , but it proved to be a short - lived rapprochement :