Real Love
“Seems that all I really was doing was waiting for you”
Lennon home-demo ballad from 1979–80, completed by McCartney, Harrison and Starr at Paul's Hog Hill Mill studio in 1995. Released as the second Beatles reunion single, the surviving members overdubbed instruments and harmonies onto Lennon's cleaned cassette vocal.
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Songwriter(s)LennonCredited as Lennon–McCartney
Recorded1979; February 6–7 and May 15–16, 1995
ReleasedMarch 4, 1996
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Tags on this page are original analysis, transcribed and cross-checked against the fine work of others: Alan W. Pollack's “Notes on…” series, the Beatles Complete Scores (Hal Leonard), Mark Lewisohn's session histories, Ian MacDonald's Revolution in the Head, Dave Rybaczewski's Beatles Music History and Andy Babiuk's Beatles Gear for the instruments and studio equipment, and others besides – then verified by ear against the recordings. Full bibliography: Sources & thanks.
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