Disney Censors The Beatles Anthology: What Was Cut? ✂️ 🎸 ❓

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✨ When The Beatles Anthology video arrived on Disney+ on November 26, with a gorgeous 4K restoration and a brand-new ninth episode, longtime fans were thrilled. The picture was stunning. The audio was spectacular. Peter Jackson’s team had worked their digital magic. But then, as fans settled in to revisit this landmark documentary, something felt off.

⚠️ Things were missing.

🔥 Paul McCartney’s story about setting a condom on fire in Hamburg—gone. Parts of the Washington Coliseum concert footage—trimmed. Mitch Murray’s demo recording of “How Do You Do It”—absent. The full 2003 DVD version ran about 10 hours across eight episodes, averaging around 75 minutes each. But with the Disney+ version, each episode clocks in at just under 60 minutes, cutting roughly an hour from the total runtime.

📊 The question is, did Disney and Apple Corps sanitize Anthology? They certainly streamlined it. And in doing so, they made a revealing choice about what matters in the streaming era: modern pacing over historical completeness.

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