[Groop]Re: Free As A Bird/ Real Love

[Charles L. Klein]

The HECK with that, I say!  After just reading the TBP of Mightier than the
Sword, I want to know where the free Lexus is that Mark was offering!  I
would also like to see those conspiracy photos, but I'll pass on the Carmen
Aragones photos.

Not that I read the text pages or anything...

-----Original Message-----
From: groop-admin@groo.com [mailto:groop-admin@groo.com]On Behalf Of
J.Carlos Lopez
Sent: Tuesday, March 26, 2002 3:47 PM
To: groop@groo.com
Subject: [Groop]Re: Free As A Bird/ Real Love



as a Beatles fan too, I'm a little disppointed about his defeat at the
Oscars...
I know that Mr. Newman waited for many years, but c'mon !...Sir Paul was
there !
Greetings from Mex City.

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>   1. OT: Free As A Bird/ Real Love (Larry Steller)
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> Date: Mon, 25 Mar 2002 16:27:16 -0800 (PST)
> From: Larry Steller <lawrencesteller@yahoo.com>
> To: groop@groo.com
> Subject: [Groop]OT: Free As A Bird/ Real Love
>
> --- "Bruce J. Cole" <salamurai@yahoo.com> wrote:
> > "Free as a Bird" was a demo that John Lennon recorded around
> > 1977, which Yoko
> > Ono provided to the three "surviving" Beatles during the
> > Anthology project.
> > Paul George and Ringo then added additional vocals and
> > instrumentation to the
> > framework...
>
> Hey Bruce!!!
>
> Although I haven't verified this independently, I recently heard
> more on the subject of how the "new" Beatles songs came about. If
> true, it's damned intriguing.
>
> Apparently, before learning of the 2 Lennon demos, Harrison was
> working on a Traveling Wilbury's album (not sure if it was Volume
> 1 or Volume 3), when someone came up with the idea of doing a
> song featuring "Aaron Wilbury" aka Elvis Aaron Presley. They were
> going to take existing unreleased vocals and add in the other
> band members, but the deal fell through. Not sure if they had
> trouble securing the rights or what, but George recalled this
> when he heard about the Lennon demos and the rest is
> revisionist-history.
>
> It's fun for me as a big Beatles fan to consider "Free  A Bird"
> and "Real Love" to be New Beatles Songs, but completely
> understand the purist point of view.
>
> =====
> -Larry Steller
> New York, New York