In 1996, they announced that “The Beatles were now bigger than The Beatles”.
They based the statement on sales in 1996, having sold 6,000,000 albums from their back catalog and a combined total of 13,000,000 copies of The Beatles Anthology 1 and The Beatles Anthology 2. The thought was the release of The Beatles Anthology 3 total Beatles album sales for 1996 would exceed 20 million.
A poll showed 41 percent of sales were to teenagers who were not born when The Beatles called it quits in 1970.
In 2008, a homeless man claimed a £2,000 reward by returning a waxwork head of ex-Beatle Sir Paul McCartney that left on a train. Anthony Silva found the item in a bin at Reading Station. Auctioneer Joby Carter left it under a seat at Maidenhead Station. The homeless man thought it was a Halloween mask and had been using it as a pillow before realizing what it was.
The wax model sold the following week for £5,500 at auction.
