Real Love - John Lennon (1979 demo) [Remasted 2023]

John Lennon's original demo of "Real Love"
#beatles #getback #letitbe #johnlennon #paulmccartney #georgeharrison #ringostarr #nowandthan #freeasabird

[@carlitosfreetos]

Cried listening to this.

[@misterlister-wm2tj]

Why

[@lesbianmustardbottle957]

More than likely stepped on a Lego.@@misterlister-wm2tj

[@waynej2608]

👍 It has that effect.

[@brianmulholland6209]

Yea beautiful it is

[@michaelmcdonald5175]

Aye.

[@edwardking1312]

All 3 songs : Now & Then, Real Love and Freeas a bird are CLASSIC - TIMELESS - Masterpieces !!!

[@javierlacoma5428]

THREE MASTERPIECES OF JOHN, MY FRIEND. ☮️✌️☮️✌🏿☮️✌🏻☮️✌🏾☮️✌🏼☮️✌🏽

[@MrZoun79]

it is four songs indeed.

[@javierlacoma5428]

@@MrZoun79 YES, IT'S TRUE. FOUR OF JOHN. 🎼🆗🆗🆗🆗🎵🎶🎵🎶🦾🦾🦾🦾☮️☮️☮️☮️👍🏿💪🏿👍🏿💪🏿😇😇😇😇❤️❤️❤️❤️

[@MrZoun79]

Incl. Grow old with me finished by Ringo.

[@javierlacoma5428]

@@MrZoun79 AND TODAY ( NOVEMBER THE 10th ), THE 👤👤👤👤 1962 - 1966 ( ❤️ ALBUM ) AND THE 👤👤👤👤 1967 - 1970 ( 💙 ALBUM ) = WHAT A PRECIOUS GIFT TO THE MULTIVERSE ❗❗❗❗ 🌠🌌🌠🌌🌠🌌🌠🌌🌠🌌🌠🌌🌠🌌 ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️🦾👽🦾👽🦾👤👤👤👤🦾👽🦾👽🦾 💙💙💙💙💙💙💙💙💙💙💙💙💙💙☮️👏🏿👏👏🏾👏🏻👏🏽👏🏼👍👍🏿👍🏻👍🏾👍🏼👍🏽☮️

[@paulcrandall5272]

Thank you John for a lifetime of work in just 40 short years.

[@MusicbyKR]

Think about what he would have created in 80 or more years

[@shelvyaanastasia]

Gosh wish he was still here, imagine he's playing with snapchat filters like the other 2😂

[@user-xx8zp3tc6n]

​@@shelvyaanastasiaЯ уверен, что Джон и сейчас здесь с нами, впрочем и Джордж тоже!!! ❤❤❤❤

[@MidosujiSen]

The guys really did a great job bringing this song to life. George's guitar in particular is fantastic on the finished version.

[@rizlahillofficial]

❤❤❤❤❤x

[@user-mi3ge6op7b]

Freddy mercury said: lennon is the best

[@MusicbyKR]

And he was right!

[@richyalexander9206]

Freddie's the greatest

[@theMarhaenist]

@@richyalexander9206 Lennon the bestest of all the bests.

[@suzannetrenchard1908]

He was right. So sad that both are no longer with us. ❤❤

[@richyalexander9206]

@@theMarhaenist Lennon was the bestest of the bests... but Freddie was a tiny bit betterer... 2 inches only.

[@markkuzma4427]

Simply the greatest composer of modern music in the 20th century. No one is even close. John's music and lyrics bring tears to my eyes, not of sadness, but of beauty

[@tyronewhitehead3123]

Johns voice is authentic raw and full of emotion it’s Beatiful

[@bobabooey4537]

John Lennon's music touched millions of people emotionally and thats special... its personal. With that said, from a fans point of view, not in a selfish way but from a fans pov.... we were absolutely robbed when John died. One disgusting worthless human being decided to take all that away from us.... his sole decision. That brings so much anger to many people and still to this very day. The sadness and pain even more.... but that feeling of anger will never leave. I dont believe in forgiving all people and wonder if John would have forgave that spinless pos. We have John's music, we are still fans. Peace.

[@carolhagarty4596]

Yup, totally agree. What a loss.💔

[@JerryDechant]

Indeed, a terrible loss to all music lovers. My only concern would be about carrying that anger because, the one it is hurting most of all, is you because you are holding on to that anger. Of course, its yours to own or let go of, totally up to you. I'm just glad we can still hear and enjoy John's music as well as the music of all great artists.

[@vjr5261]

He would definitely forgive. That was his nature.

[@dedrik932]

John Lennon is one of the best songwriters and voices ever but God is great and has everything happen for a reason. Accept it or not but God is always good and Jesus is our Savior to look up to and live our lives towards. We are all sinners but there is nothing more powerful than the greatness of the power of our Lord and Savior, and we will never regret devoting our lives to Him despite our selfish lust and desires we fall towards .He will be there for us with nothing but love and forgiveness if we accept Him and pray for forgiveness. God bless.

[@joeb6245]

I couldn’t agree with you more. We probably had at least 30 more years of his brilliant new songs and who knows what else he could’ve done. I think that everytime I listen to his music. He’s missed by millions every day. God bless John Lennon.

[@peterliston1697]

Brilliant. Nothing more. Nothing Less

[@AnandaGBrady]

His musical muse comes from a galaxy far far away....

[@MusicbyKR]

I agree

[@ivanoffsky]

Yoko Ono?

[@Esteban-pb4gw]

No I think he first recorded on a tape cassette then he played it and recorded it again with another tape casette recorder

[@ericgollahon6138]

​@@Esteban-pb4gwEspecially with the tambourine over dubbed in. And his vocal sounds double tracked like they did in the Beatles

[@Uglybuttfiend]

Star Wars?

[@IsaacWale2004]

The fact that he never got to finish this and turn it into a number 1 hit makes me sad...

[@Coolcat3]

This song is simply amazing

[@bad_egg000]

I hope John will come back to life so he can listen to the released real love song. The 3 beatles cried while making this song. ❤️

[@MichaelConsuegra-iy2cx]

We all wish that can happen.

[@Mr.Rocklight]

The Great John Lennon ❤

[@ingridthurner3651]

❤

[@joeb6245]

It’s absolute brilliance. God bless you John. 🙏🏻

[@emilytvmusic]

for me this is the “last beatles song” absolute masterpiece of a song and jeff lynnes production

If you consider Free As A Bird and Real Love Beatles songs, Now And Then is too. It's the same thing, the third song form the threetles reunion, but unfinished at that time.

[@Karmakatt6]

Jeff is an absolute genius. Paul is great, Jeff is a pop genius..

@@Karmakatt6 I like Jeff, but Paul is a beatle. Jeff is not.

[@jecuben]

El sonido de la cinta del 📼 es hermoso ❤

[@JimmyNotes]

I do think Jeff Lynne did a great job on the song back in the 90s, but I prefer the Giles Martin remix.

[@robertbrown7408]

They should bring out an EP with Real Love,Free as a bird,Now and then and the George Martin orchestrated Grow old with me off the Lennon Anthology.

[@majas4922]

Ringo did a lovely version of Grow old with me

[@beatleman69]

I would definitely buy it! These demos are absolute treasures

[@wysiwygdies]

there is no fear in love, but perfect love casts out fear

[@Mario_11]

His master demo, he even did his double tracked vocals. 💙😢

[@steven2037]

Same year as he recorded Beautiful Boy. During the Double Fantasy recordings. 😢

[@claudiomedeiros9056]

Beautiful song.

[@Uglybuttfiend]

His writing was becoming more advanced, as he was starting to really come into his own writing by himself.

[@neilkanatt8244]

He was there by '65

[@Uglybuttfiend]

@@neilkanatt8244 it's def just an opinion, but I was talking about in terms of his solo career. I think Paul got better in the 80s, as he was by then well-versed (no pun intended) in writing songs without John. The same was probably starting to happen to John, but I think it took a while to adjust for both of them. But yeah, John was already an A-1 songwriter by Help!, for sure.

[@jopisano67]

​​​@@Uglybuttfiend Yes. I agree. Paul continued his great song writing skills throughout the 70's while Lennon had lost it for a bit. These recordings of John were in that stage of a comeback. Writing skills and song writing getting ready to explode like the 1960's again. Late 70's was a turning point for him. Double Fantasy was proof of just that. Everything was there and coming back again and starting over.

[@jaxteller312]

plastic ono band album was his first solo album and was nothing like the beatles!and a real masterpiece

[@Uglybuttfiend]

@@jaxteller312 I do agree that that's a brilliant album, albeit a depressing one, but he was purging. I just personally feel like his solo career as a whole wasn't as good as Paul's, and even Paul improved as he found his solo niche, but Lennon hadn't quite gotten there yet (taking a 5 year hiatus didn't help, I'm sure), but as someone stated above, I think he was on the cusp of renewed greatness before he was senselessy gunned down.

[@Talent-ke3wq]

All my little plans and schemes Lost like some forgotten dreams Seems that all I really was doing Was waiting for you Just like little girls and boys Playing with their little toys Seems like all they really were doing Was waiting for love Don't need to be alone No need to be alone It's real love, it's real Yes it's real love, it's real From this moment on I know Exactly where my life will go Seems that all I really was doing Was waiting for love Don't need to be afraid No need to be afraid It's real love, it's real Yes it's real love, it's real Thought I'd been in love before But in my heart, I wanted more Seems like all I really was doing Was waiting for you Don't need to be alone Don't need to be alone It's real love, it's real It's real love, it's real Yes it's real love, it's real It's real love, it's real Yes it's real love, it's real It's real love, it's real Yes it's real love, it's real It's real love, it's real

[@222Lightning]

The Piano is really awesome. Love the shuffle he does a few times in there like @ 35 seconds. I Feel like on this brisk winter day feeling unusually good and rested with my feet up on the computer desk looking out the window without a clue as to how I'm going to support myself for the rest of my days.....Like I was meant to be here right now reflecting on my life and the faces that have come and gone.

[@MarioGaudino-zp4uh]

Simply the Genius........

[@lordburlap4514]

John…………still miss you….

[@lloydschlomer76]

Agreed

[@choccho8340]

Tôi nghĩ phiên bản này là hay nhất,giọng của John rất rõ ràng. Cảm ơn John vì bài hát tuyệt đẹp.

[@Passageofsky]

The chord progressions at the end really lift the song

[@markmeleady]

Chills.

[@chrismurphyshef]

So insanely beautiful it makes you choke. ❤

[@Gamma3]

beautiful song

[@herberthchavarria4973]

Sencillamente, la mejor versión.

[@ingridthurner3651]

In dieser Welt, in der sich fast alles falsch und heuchlerisch anfühlt und vermutlich auch ist, ist es so wunderbar, wenn man so eine wunderschöne Musik, die so pur und wahrhaftig ist, anhören darf. Ich bedanke mich dafür!❤

[@stagechris2560]

Da hast du wahre Worte geschrieben. Leider ist das wirklich so. Man kann nur hoffen das es wieder, auch wenn nur etwas, besser wird.

[@ingridthurner3651]

@@stagechris2560 schön gesagt!

[@toddlaber2325]

beautiful

[@apkv1989]

This is a beautiful and finished song. I wonder why it didn’t make the cut for John Lennon’s Double Fantasy album…

[@MusicbyKR]

He didn't release some masterpieces, who knows, maybe he had a #1 album planned.

[@gfxd621]

He had so much more demos and songs and was even planning to reunite with his old pal Paul he was on fire sadly tragedy struck

[@henryro1320]

En Double Fantasy no habia mas espacio, pues la otra mitad eran temas de Yoko

[@MackDJ]

This song was written 20 years before we were ready for it. Even from 1979 this sounds like a 90s song.

[@Crypto1234]

The release of this song, I’m stepping out, free as a bird and others in his next album… but you know what happened 😢

[@jaimequiroz3634]

Genius.

[@torinoscaletunes]

This is a lovely rebuild. The song's been around a while of course, but this is the most 'demoey' version I've heard.

[@kedacchi12]

This is best version

[@markmeleady]

Incredible!

[@FerdnandFreeholi]

I like this version better than the one they produced. Just Beautiful and Raw .......

[@abc456f]

The melody when he sings, "waiting for love", "waiting for you", sound so much like something George would come up with.

[@jonathonray4737]

This was the only complete song in the three songs that were planned for the anthologys that was released in the 90s

[@waynej2608]

It's wonderful to hear. I like the 'polished' version too. I hadn't heard the original for awhile. I have it on my Lennon Anthology. It was a nice surprise to see it pop up here. Ty👍

[@MusicbyKR]

Glad you like it

[@shelvyaanastasia]

This is going to be my future wedding song, period.

[@MusicbyKR]

Good choice, the demo or the Beatles version?

[@ROBYNMARKOW]

Beautiful 👌🏻

[@andycrook3571]

There is a couple of versions out there that are finished. Imagine soundtrack in one of them

[@marclemonmusic]

It is very special

[@tuttoruote]

3 canzoni in 28 anni e dopo 60 anni in Inghilterra sono in testa alle classifiche discografiche

[@nfpingenieriacivilsasnelso4473]

very beautiful and unknown songs from John just a few years before his death, very sad for all of us

[@areareare9953]

The demo sounds alot like some of the old songs that he and Paul used to like back in the day. Though his piano work is wild in between the chorus and versus.

[@isaacdavidnz]

I love the song, I don't know why John felt it wasn't good enough to include on Double Fantasy or Milk and Honey. From Free as a bird and Now and then I understand that John discarded them (they don't measure up to Woman, Beautiful Boy, etc.), but Real Love does.

[@MusicbyKR]

I still believe that he intended to make a world class album that would go down in history as the best album, he didn't collect these masterpieces for nothing else

[@knockedoutloaded279]

He planned 5 albums into the future, he thought they were good enough, he just kept them for later...

[@SecretAgentPaul]

I never knew his is already double tracked here.

[@josecchavezzamora1210]

MARAVILLOSO, muchas gracias por compartir esta joya musical. Saludos desde Lima Perú

[@modom2001]

Super

[@MichaelConsuegra-iy2cx]

His voice her is clearer than on The Beatles Anthology version.

[@mercymallari1060]

Who played the Tambourine in this song, because I hear it.

[@suzanne1060]

❤❤

[@NLvideo]

Fantastic song, with piano, voice, double voice, and some tambourines, looks almost a like a finish song ! They need to release and remastered this songs without alterations ! Like a new Lp with Now and Then, Real Love, Free as a Bird, and Imagine !

[@MusicbyKR]

That would be something, but no normal customer would appreciate it, only specialists like us

[@user-cc4lb9my9f]

Yeah i know however it go wont bring him back let it be but yeah i feel your pain

[@MichaelConsuegra-iy2cx]

Perhaps they should remake real love with John's voice sounding cleaner.

[@janaparoubkova5895]

Božská písnička, božský John 👏👏💓💓

[@joserivas7543]

later of all is REAL LOVE

[@pdxtom]

I like this much better than the attempt to doctor it up and make it into a Beatles track. This version sounds much more honest and real.

[@_ludba]

wow

[@cristiannicolasgarcia836]

I’d like to listen to the Anthology version with this clear and brilliant voice. It would be much better.

[@MusicbyKR]

I've already finished it, but I'm currently having problems with copyright and therefore haven't been able to upload it to KZbin yet.

[@user-xc5fo9ub5d]

I like his shoulder’s curves when he plays piano.

[@nevermore1963]

❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

[@deanom6183]

Why are these 3 songs Beatles songs when Beatles split up beforehand? Is it Yoko giving the remaining Beatles another shot at a much sought after reunion?

[@MusicbyKR]

Exactly, John wrote the songs before his death and after the Beatles' time, so there was no one better than the rest of the Beatles to finish them

[@kathy07002]

Yoko gave the songs to the remaining Beatles after John passed.. as a gift.

[@MusicbyKR]

@@kathy07002 A very good "gift"

[@DonalMartinplus]

The tape had for Paul written on it

[@henryro1320]

Solo quedan Paul y Ringo, no tiene sentido

[@dulcedesol]

HERMOSOS RECUERDOS

[@deanom6183]

Anyone know why John went so high in these last 3 songs? It seems Paul did the high songs with the Beatles but maybe Paul found his high voice once he split with Beatles? 🤔

[@introaether937]

Guessing, I'd say John let the melody do want it wanted to, caring not whether that meant it went higher than his comfort zone. You don't write song in the way that you'd write a letter. Instead, you catch them out from of the aether, and they are what they are. Post manipulation will only subtract from the original thing you've caught. I think John was pretty comfortable with the process ;)

[@areareare9953]

John used to sing both low and high parts in his demo. I though Paul winged it, because it's so hard to sing along John's melody line, but there's a beatles demo, If I Fell, where he does the same thing - sings where he wants Paul's line and then sings where he was planning to be.

[@mtp4430]

❤️☮️👍🙏

[@musicbeat4609]

3:02 This is a much more interesting demo recording, because it is a song and a decent recording. It's good to listen to this recording and compare it to the version which was released as a single. I wonder if John Lennon is playing the piano or not? Obviously, this was either recorded with other musicians or layered in a recording studio, because there's more than just piano and voice.

[@stellapolanco6860]

It´s Lennon on Piano !

[@musicbeat4609]

John Lennon wasn't an accomplished pianist, that's a fact. This track certainly sounds as though it was tracked in a studio.

[@stellapolanco6860]

@@musicbeat4609 , Your question is misleading. Where do you want to go? Say that Lennon was not an accomplished pianist or that the recording is doctored or fake?

[@musicbeat4609]

Question is misleading? It wasn't a question and it certainly wasn't misleading. Fact! Lennon was not an accomplished pianist. Additionally, I have spoken to people who knew Lennon, not what a fan concludes nor what one has read. Also, tracked does not mean doctored or fake. A person can only state: "It's Lennon on Piano." when that person is Lennon or was actually there at the time he played the piano and it was recorded. Therefore, here is the question: Were you there at the recording when Lennon played this song?

[@stellapolanco6860]

@@musicbeat4609 , In your case, yes, I repeat, where do you want to go? If what you want is to make us believe that Lennon was a mediocre or not accomplished pianist enough to play the piano part in question, I inform you that I can do that part myself as a hobby musician. There must be a million keyboard players who can play that piano part. As a pianist Lennon was no Elton John or Billy Joel, but he was not an idiot either. Either you don't know anything about music or you have a beef with Lennon. There is no other explanation. If you or anyone else watches some videos of Lennon composing songs for the "Imagine" album, you might get the idea that he could easily be the one performing this piano part, regardless of whether this material is fake or not.

[@otojirou]

I should have just continued overdubbing, but I wonder why they changed the key to +1 (♯).

[@falagarius]

better than the 90s version

[@shavkatpanda]

no, he definitely needed McCartney's perfectionism

[@jaxteller312]

ofc

[@hw343434]

@@shavkatpanda sure, because “Imagine” and “Plastic Ono Band” needed McCartney? 😅

[@eltiogottlieb.4911]

​@@hw343434no lo necesitó a él,pero si tuvo arreglista, productor y músicos en su equipo, que aportaron cosas a las versiones finales.

[@JoaoGabriel-lk9cv]

@@shavkatpandano, he didn’t. And this was just a demo.

[@gustavo-musicas1608]

mais alguém lembrou do Italian Concerto de Bach? Na parte triste de piano no começo.

[@XMisPujidos]

John did not write a song to be listened to and forgotten. He took his time to write the song sewing it into the very fabric of our lives. This song made me cry the very first time I heard it in 1993 it was shocking to hear his voice singing together again in spirit with the remaining band THE BEATLES. R.I.P. John and George.

[@retrop3]

his back 🧐

[@MusicbyKR]

I get back pain just from watching

[@theinfochannel8512]

I dont have this version, i have all the other demo versions, where did u get this?? did u alter it/remix it urself at all?

[@BrightStone-production]

How many demo versions are there, I am thinking three, but not sure on that. I believe there are two piano versions and one on guitar. If there are more, please let me or us know. Thanks I do love this version, but I also love the Beatles version as well.

[@MusicbyKR]

Yes, there should be 3. I haven't found the guitar demo for a long time, I'm trying to find it and re-tune it and then I'll send you a link

[@crazyapeyreviews1173]

I do know the guitar version is in the Imagine film from the 80s

[@PaulTaylor1]

I'm sure I hear vinyl pops... 🤔

[@wakuhonchan]

今の技術ならもっと歌を綺麗に復元出来そうですが一度リリースしたものはやり直さなくて良いと思います。聴いてみたいですが(笑)

[@karmicselling4252]

"Free as a Bird" and "Real Love" are John Lennon songs. They should have remained Lennon songs. Much as I love Paul, George and Ringo, I think it is a great shame that they produced and released these two songs of John's under The Beatles label. They are not Beatles songs. John has left this world 15 years earlier. It had not been unusual for each of them to contribute to one of the other's solo efforts over the years. That's would should have happened with these songs. Alas, it all comes down to $$$.

[@TheTessagrear]

🤓🤓🤓🤓🤓

[@TheTessagrear]

no disrespect btw

[@MrTeachtheworld]

Who's playing the tambourine?

[@MusicbyKR]

Probably Yoko, she might have managed that

[@squirrelguy2195]

It's actually a drum/rhythm machine. EDIT - it's a tambourine. IIRC John did use a drum/rhythm machine on other demos however.

[@MusicbyKR]

@@squirrelguy2195 If anyone in the 70s had this it would be John

[@jarekblaminsky]

probably Yoko.. i am glad she is not doing any choruses or singing. JOHN ! JOHN JOHN! JOHN!

[@dandunk]

Probably John. You can tell in parts that his voice is double tracked. Good chance he played the tambourine while recording his voice the second time.

[@nevermore1963]

💎 ♦️ 🔹️ 💎

[@barriniho]

Is Yoko singing too?

[@MusicbyKR]

I think so, and surprisingly it doesn't sound bad at all

[@camioso]

No I think he double tracked himself

[@bluesandbeerband]

Who played tambourine?

[@MusicbyKR]

It could only have been Yoko

[@IsaacWale2004]

@@MusicbyKR I'm pretty sure it was a tape-loop type of thing he had...

[@MusicbyKR]

@@IsaacWale2004 Good to know, my answer was more guessed

[@IsaacWale2004]

@@MusicbyKR Yoko or someone may also have been playing, but I know he owned a drum machine by this time... (he used on "Grow old with me")

[@_hk-fl7vd]

🤍

[@TheTessagrear]

Key?

[@MusicbyKR]

A tone deeper than the Beatles version

[@nevermore1963]

אני בוכה וצוחקת ביחד. ג'ון הוא הכל. כל מוזיקה אחרת ששמעתי בחיי אפילו ענקים כמו אריתה פרנקלין ולואי ארמסטרונג הם לא אמת, האמת היא רק ג'ון.

[@erikk1820]

Sad that hear how Jeff Lynne's mechanical production stripped the life out of it.

[@nickdryad]

This needs the AI treatment. Get better vocals for the Anthology reworking.

[@MusicbyKR]

That would be great, but unfortunately I don't think they'll do that.

[@axelheld6655]

I didn't like the newer mix that came out a few years ago as much as the Anthology versions because they changed a few things outside of just the sound. I would be very excited about a third version, but with reservations.

[@make123456z]

Yoko ruined this with her tambourine out of time.