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| In 1989, surviving members The Beatles Paul McCartney, George Harrison, and Ringo Starr announced plans to provide an official timeline of their 10-year career as The Beatles, to be entitled "Anthology". Along with that announcement, rumors began circulating of the three remaining Beatles reuniting to make new music. The rumor was denied by the members and anyone associated with The Beatles at that time. It wasn't until 1994 the remaining members began discussing the idea. The main issue was that they felt uncomfortable doing without founding member John Lennon, who had been murdered in 1980.
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| Paul McCartney soon approached Yoko Ono Lennon, Lennon's widow, under the suspicion that she would have some of Lennon's unused recordings. As a result, Ono gave McCartney 3 cassette tapes, which were found in Lennon's New York apartment with the words "For Paul" written on them in Lennon's handwriting.
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| The tapes contained the songs "Free As A Bird", "Real Love" and "Now and Then" and featured Lennon on piano and singing. The three remaining Beatles soon began work on all three demos with a founding member of Electric Light Orchestra and George Harrison's fellow Traveling Wilburys colleague, Jeff Lynne, producing. The first two songs "Free As A Bird" and "Real Love" were completed and released in 1995 and 1996 on the first two volumes of the Anthology soundtracks. As for "Now and Then", they began work on the song in 1996, with a basic guitar track provided by Harrison and percussion track from Starr. Harrison later showed disapproval of the song, reportedly calling the song "f**kin rubbish." In 1997, the song was shelved, never completed or officially released. In 2001, Harrison passed away after battling cancer, making the completion of the song more difficult.
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| In 2009, McCartney stated in an interview his interest in completing the song with Lynne and Starr, using the archived tracks that Harrison provided before his death. The only other thing needed is approval from Harrison's estate (owned by his widow, Olivia Harrison) and from Yoko Ono Lennon, which the status of their approval or disapproval is unknown.
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| The original Lennon piano demo of the track has since surfaced on YouTube, and there are also several fan edited bootlegs of the song.
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| YouTube link to an edited version of Lennon's demo, courtesy of the channel Lennon PianoTapes:
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| https://youtu.be/0yYRWnzKow8
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| YouTube link to a fan-edited version of Lennon's demo, courtesy of the channel Bojon Productions:
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| https://youtu.be/TbyAD1ySWZw
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