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            Are you happy with the Anthology albums?

            Yes. What's happened in putting together the albums is that we've tried this and that and eventually distilled it down to what we feel works about the best. And the great thing for me is, because we've all approved it, it then becomes it. And I'm always happy at that point. I've never had a Beatles record and said, "Oh, I wish we'd done that". There might have been a track of mine where I've thought, "Oh, I wish I could have sung that a bit better" but it doesn't matter, it's now fixed in cement, it's it. I never had any regrets, and it's the same with this project. Club Sandwich 76
            In Volume One there are a few songs that I would have preferred not being there, like 'Besame Mucho' which portrays me as a cabaret artist, whereas in my soul I am a rock and roller - although of course I have done 'Till There Was You', 'Yesterday', 'A Taste Of Honey' and all these other things. But because the others wanted it in, because George Martin wanted it in, because everyone else was happy with it, I could put down my slight reservation and say, "Cool. If you guys like it then it's got to be alright". And it's a very nice feeling to be on a team like that. The minute a thing is done and it's the Beatles, I'm happy with it, because we go through so much to get it finished that I'm always convinced. I always have been and I am on this occasion.
            We've all been in there, we've all said our bit, George Martin has tried his best with difficult material and I think he's put together a very exciting story. People will have differences of opinion about what should have been included - like, should there have been as much of the Morecambe and Wise piece? Will that mean a lot to the Americans? But what was decided was, it shows the humour of the Beatles, it shows the kind of work we were doing at the time and it shows something about our personalities, so it's valid.

            Is there something we could learn from the Beatles' story?

            No, I don't think so! [Laughs.] I wish we'd learned something from it! No, I'm joking. I don't think it's that significant, really. It's just good that our hearts were in the right place, that we nearly always talked about love and peace as a main subject, not anger.
            I often say that we weren't leaders, we were more spokesmen, but looking back on it, in the Anthology, you can see why we were taken as the leaders. I don't really claim any significance, I don't think any of us set out to give the world a message, but we did. I leave it at that, really.
            The thing for me about the Anthology is, it's my life story. It's the Beatles story but because I was one of them it's my life story, and because it goes back as far as it can go it's like having my life rolled out in front of me, the whole thing. And it came as a shock, I must say. I knew what we were doing, I knew we were writing our memoirs, as it were, but to see it, it's overwhelming for me. I get to see my Dad again, he's been dead a number of years, I get to see my Mum again, I get to remember what she did again... not that I've forgotten, but it's there, all laid out in front of me again. It's like what they say about when you're drowning: your life flashes in front of you!
            So, you know, it's exciting, it's shocking, it's frightening, it's sad, it's happy, and it's the Beatles story.

            But is it the last word?

            I don't know. That's the difficult thing. In the electronic press kit we all enigmatically said, "Where does the circle end and where does it begin? An end is a beginning, of sorts". But to me, for now, it's an end.

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