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- Corpsing: Band members can be heard ruining takes by starting to laugh in "One After 909", "Mr. Moonlight", "No Reply", "I'll Be Back"', "And Your Bird Can Sing", "Polythene Pam", "Julia", "Rocky Raccoon", "Come Together".
- Cut Song: Virtually all tracks were never intended to end up on an album. They are demos, outtakes, jams, experimentations, concert shows, home made recordings...
- Spiritual Successor: The 50th Anniversary Deluxe Editions of Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, The Beatles and Abbey Road are effectively all this to Anthology 3, since they include a lot of alternate takes from the same sources (and in some cases, unreleased songs) which had been left off it.
- Troubled Production: When the project was being developed, Paul McCartney suggested to George Harrison that they collaborate on a new song like Paul and John Lennon used to. George shot that down immediately, still resentful after decades during the Beatles period when Paul was so dismissive of George's own efforts to develop his songwriting talent and he wasn't going to give Paul the satisfaction of ignoring that history.
- What Could Have Been: Several songs were considered but ultimately rejected, though it hasn't stopped rumours and speculations
of a fourth Anthology installment from happening, which includes:- "Carnival of Light" as Paul McCartney wanted it to be added into Anthology 2 but George Harrison, Ringo Starr and Yoko Ono vetoed it.
- "Hiroshima Sky Is Always Blue", a Ono-McCartney avant-garde piece was considered.
- "Now and Then", an unfinished Lennon song was considered as the three surviving Beatles began work on it by recording a rough backing track that was to be used as an overdub and being the third single from the Anthology series but ultimately scrapped it. However, the song would finally be finished in 2023 by the now two surviving Beatles, Paul and Ringo, for the expanded reissue of their greatest hits albums 1962-1966 and 1967-1970.
- "Grow Old with Me" was also considered to be the third single or even the fourth single had they managed to finish work on "Now and Then" with the surviving Beatles working on the song but ultimately abandoned work on it as Lennon's original demo required too much work to bring it up to the standard needed for an official release (not to mention that it had already been released on the Lennon/Ono Milk and Honey album in 1984). The closest thing to a full band version would happen in 2019 when Starr and McCartney did a cover of it for the former's album What's My Name.
- A new track titled "All for Love" was recorded especially for the release but was abandoned. It ultimately became the last Beatles track recorded before Harrison's death in 2001.
- Other songs that were also considered include the unreleased "Angel in Disguise", which was recorded for Ringo Starr's Time Takes Time, "Commonwealth" (an improvised precursor to "Get Back"), "Madman", "Song of Love", "Thinking of Linking", "Watching Rainbows" (another improvised song from the Get Back rehearsals) and "Scrambled Eggs" (the alternate version of "Yesterday").
- The other ten songs from the rejected Decca audition demo was also considered, though snippets of such did make it into the release.
