"Real Love" was released in February 1996 and peaked at Number 11.
"Free As A Bird" was released as a single in November 1995 and reached Number Six. Along with "Free As A Bird," McCartney, Harrison, and Starr recorded another Lennon song called "Real Love."Īlthough the trio decided to pass on embellishing on the already released Lennon demo of "Grow Old With Me" - there is a third unfinished Lennon track laying in the Beatles' vaults, featuring their aborted attempt to flesh out the late-'70s demo of "Now And Then" - also known as "I Don't Want To Lose You."įor their digital "reunion," the group used Lennon's piano and lead vocal as the basis for the tracks to complete two "all new" Beatles songs. In 1994, at McCartney's request, Yoko Ono presented the former Beatles with a total of four Lennon demos.
Lennon went on record at the time as saying that the group would eventually reunite to cap off the documentary.įlash forward a quarter-century, to when the group's story was spread out over three nights, with the first night world premiering the first all-new Beatles song in over 25 years, called "Free As A Bird." The song was originally an unfinished home demo recording by Lennon from 1977. The doc, which was always on the group's back burner, was even mentioned by Lennon during a 1980 deposition in a lawsuit against the producers of the Broadway musical Beatlemania.
The Beatles' late right-hand man, Neil Aspinall, began compiling raw footage for the documentary, which was originally going to be called The Long And Winding Road.
The project actually began almost immediately after the group's breakup in the spring of 1970. The three surviving Beatles, with the full cooperation of John Lennon's wife Yoko Ono, teamed up to produce the mini-series, which featured contemporary interviews with Paul McCartney, George Harrison, and Ringo Starr, as well as archival interviews with Lennon. It was 25 years ago tonight (November 19th, 1995) that The Beatles Anthology premiered on ABC-TV.
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