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GROW OLD WITH ME / JOHN LENNON

"Grow Old With Me" is a song by British musician John Lennon , published in posthumous album "Milk and Honey "which was released in June 1984.
After the death of ex-Beatle wife, Japanese artist Yoko Ono , went to work at work to recover all the unreleased material he had left her late husband in a thousand keys and it was fixed point for more Music of any investor.

economic needs after his surprising departure and the desire to keep the voice and message of this extraordinary musician, led to this record was published worldwide.

Such is the melancholic songs and romantic ballads "Grow Old With Me", dating from the summer of 1980, and was written by Lennon after reading the poem Rabbi ben Ezra of the famous poet Robert Browning English .
As for music, he says that Lennon took several ideas for the song "Let Me Count the Ways," which belonged to his wife and wife, who had written on a demo version at the time that usic was retired to spend more time with his family.
On the birth of this song, Yoko Ono recalls in the liner notes: "One morning in the summer of 1980 I woke up with the music of " Let Me Count the Ways " ringing in my head. I called John immediately, which was then in Bermuda and I did hear through the phone. 'What about? "I asked," I love it. It's beautiful, "I replied. "Once
Lennon gave the nod to that song, Yoko suggested (among so many crazy idea) to write a letter to Robert Style Browning to accompany this wonderful score.

In these same pages, Yoko Ono explained the origin of this song, introducing that song to her beloved John : "That afternoon he called me and said" Hey, you will not believe this! From there I began to explain that you were watching TV one movie from the 50 on a baseball player. In the film, John was very comfortable with the scene in which the baseball player's girlfriend sends him a poem to his beloved ... But this poem was one of Robert Browning where the phrase "Grow Old With Me" enough attention was called , so much that he wrote a song with that idea. After that, John began to sing his song through the phone. "

Initially " Grow Old With Me " was ready to join the Double Fantasy album . But delays in recordings of other songs, and the obsessive idea of \u200b\u200bpublishing Lennon that album before Christmas, let this beautiful piece of music out of the disk, and put off recording for his next album, which was half because it was killed in December 1980.

But the song also came to the fore in 1994, when the recording process The Beatles Anthology , Paul McCartney wanted to re-record this song with George and Ringo . But it was the producer responsible for this musical project, the acclaimed Jeff Lynne (yes, the former leader of ELO ), who set the parking brake to the idea, because when trying to remaster the tape does not able to eliminate a buzz and that's already put a number of problems with so little time to throw the disc. Besides, Harrison stated that the song was very sad, and the idea was to release more experimental and cheerful as it was a meeting eagerly awaited by fans. Eventually stayed with " Free as a Bird" and "Real Love ."

Another masterpiece from mr. Lennon. An apt song for all lovers and for all marriage as eternal union is the establishment of true love.
Enjoy!

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