# Third Beatles Reunion Song

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [January 25, 2000, 7:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/third-beatles-reunion-song/6521 "2000-01-25T19:11:00Z")\
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**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/original/2X/e/e489c3b7d8fce19c4b355dd4fc3f88cc39c34b87.png) [@system](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [January 26, 2000, 6:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/third-beatles-reunion-song/6521/1 "2000-01-26T06:19:00Z")

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I tried this question on the newsgroup, with no luck. I’m sure everyone remembers the Beatles reunion in '95 that wielded “Free as a Bird” and “Real Love”. During that time, I heard conflicting reports about a third song that was either started but never completed, or completed but vetoed by George Harrison after the poor chart performance of the other two singles. Also, the reports I heard are unclear whether the third song was “Grow Old With Me” or “Now and Then”. So I’m asking you dopers, is there a third Threetles tune sitting in a vault someplace, or is it all just speculation?

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**Author:** ![Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/elmer_j.fudd/32/1211_2.png) [@Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elmer_J.Fudd)\
**Post date:** [January 25, 2000, 7:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/third-beatles-reunion-song/6521/2 "2000-01-25T19:11:00Z")

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I sure hope not! I really dislike that whole Natalie Cole school of singing with the dead.

That said, it does make sense that there was the intention to do a total of three; one for each “Anthology” set.

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Elmer J. Fudd,  
Millionaire.  
I own a mansion and a yacht.

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**Author:** ![Kent\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kent_clark/32/105_2.png) [@Kent\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kent_Clark)\
**Post date:** [January 25, 2000, 8:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/third-beatles-reunion-song/6521/3 "2000-01-25T20:14:00Z")

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Are you thinking of “All Those Years Ago”? It was written by George Harrison as a tribute after John Lennon was killed and McCartney and Starr contributed to it. Don’t know if it counts as a “reunion,” though.

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**Post date:** [January 25, 2000, 9:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/third-beatles-reunion-song/6521/4 "2000-01-25T21:51:00Z")

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Are you thinking of “All Those Years Ago”?

No, this was during the '94-'95 sessions with P,G & R working with the demos that Yoko gave them with Jeff Lynne acting as producer.