The Beatles Anthology Beatles Anthology" in an "Al TV" special. He said he had a copy of a fictional "Anthology 17", which he claimed would not be available to the public for a while. He played for the audience a track of Paul McCartney brushing his teeth and Ringo Starr shaving before "The Ed Sullivan Show". "The Beatles Anthology" was also parodied on the short-lived "Dana Carvey Show", which was being aired on ABC around the same time that "Anthology" was being televised on the network. The Beatles Anthology The Beatles Anthology is a television documentary, a three-volume set of double albums, and
The Beatles: An Illustrated Record a list of bootleg Beatles recordings. "An Illustrated Record" was a commercial success, reaching number two on "The New York Times Best Seller list" for trade paperbacks. Its reported sales of 250,000 copies made it the best-selling Beatles book. Later editions deleted the bootlegs section, stating only that they were of generally poor sound quality, and of interest "only to the most die-hard Beatlemaniacs". The 1981 edition included a tribute section to John Lennon, who had died only months earlier. Also included was a copy of Lennon's own correction to a passage in the first edition, with a copy of