Beatles involved:
John (posthumous), Paul, George, Ringo
Listenability: 4.5 out of 5
In early 1995 the remaining Beatles added backing vocals and music to a low quality cassette recording of this John Lennon song. The song is more upbeat than Free As A Bird and both the piano sound and John's voice are clearer. John sings lead throughout the song and it does sound a bit like a John Lennon solo track, albeit with George Harrison’s trademark slide guitar and some Beatle style backing vocals.
What They Said About It:
Paul:
Real Love was different from Free As A Bird in that it had all the words and the music and so it was a bit more like being side men to John - but that was very joyful and good fun and I think we did a good job.
Press release for The Beatles' single Real Love 5 February 1996
I don't quite like it as much as Free As A Bird because I think Free As A Bird is more powerful. But it's catchier. There was one real nice moment when were doing Real Love and I was trying to learn the piano bit, and Ringo sat down on the drums, jamming along. It was like none of us had ever been away.
Q December 1995
Ringo:
Real Love is more of a poppy song. It was more difficult, actually, to turn it into a real Beatles track.
Q December 1995
I think John will love it when he hears it.
George:
I hope somebody does this to all my crap demos when I'm dead, make them into hit songs.
Huntley, Elliot J (2004) Mystical One: George Harrison: After the Break-up of the Beatles
Other Bits And Pieces
Biographer John T. Marck stated that Real Love was originally written as part of an unfinished stage play that Lennon was working on in 1977 titled "The Ballad of John and Yoko." A handwritten page of notes shown below indicates that John Lennon was also considering the song for his come back album in 1980 that would eventually become 'Double Fantasy'.
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