text: Content Following "Free as a Bird" on Anthology 1 and "Real Love" on Anthology 2, a third John Lennon solo demo entitled "Now and Then" was to be reworked by the three surviving members of The Beatles (George Harrison, Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr) for Anthology 3. However, this project was shelved due to Harrison's dislike of the quality of the song recording. McCartney later stated that Harrison called Lennon's demo recording "fucking rubbish". McCartney told Q Magazine in 1997 that "George didn't like it. The Beatles being a democracy, we didn't do it." The song would eventually be finished and released in 2023.  In its place is "A Beginning", an orchestral instrumental track by the band's producer George Martin, initially intended for the White Album as the intro to "Don't Pass Me By".
  Connecting to the previous Anthology albums, the cover image painted by Klaus Voormann features a collage of Beatles-related imagery designed to appear as a wall of peeling posters and album covers. An updated picture of Voormann can be seen in Harrison's hair in a segment of the Revolver album cover.
  Track listing
  CD release
  All tracks in stereo, except where noted.
  Vinyl release
  Side one:
  "A Beginning"
  "Happiness Is a Warm Gun"
  "Helter Skelter"
  "Mean Mr. Mustard"
  "Polythene Pam"
  "Glass Onion"
  "Junk"
  "Piggies"
  "Honey Pie"
  "Don't Pass Me By"
  "Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da"
  "Good Night"
  Side two
  "Cry Baby Cry"
  "Blackbird"
  "Sexy Sadie"
  "While My Guitar Gently Weeps"
  "Hey Jude"
  "Not Guilty"
  "Mother Nature's Son"
  Side three
  "Glass Onion"
  "Rocky Raccoon"
  "What's the New Mary Jane"
  "Step Inside Love" / "Los Paranoias"
  "I'm So Tired"
  "I Will"
  "Why Don't We Do It in the Road?"
  "Julia"
  Side four
  "I've Got a Feeling"
  "She Came in Through the Bathroom Window"
  "Dig a Pony"
  "Two of Us"
  "For You Blue"
  "Teddy Boy"
  Medley: "Rip It Up" / "Shake, Rattle and Roll" / "Blue Suede Shoes"
  Side five
  "The Long and Winding Road"
  "Oh! Darling"