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==