Back in 1995, the three surviving members of the Beatles reunited to work on two new recordings to celebrate their newly released anthology compilation. Using two John Lennon demos as a base, "Free as a Bird and "Real Love" both reached the UK top ten and mark the official final recordings the fab four ever made.
The question is, which track was better?
I have a real affection for "Free As A Bird" due to the video made to accompany it, a loving retrospective of the band's career. But both songs are lovely; I wish John had done more like them during the five years off before his death.
shareFree as a Bird, I was already very familiar with John's solo version of Real Love from the soundtrack of the Imagine: John Lennon movie, so it didn’t come over as fresh or ground-breaking to me as it should have.
If I’d not known about Real Love beforehand it would probably be that though, it sounds like Traveling Wilburys with John on lead vocals!
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