Most fans believe that ‘Now And Then,’ which Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr completed under the Beatles moniker in 2023, was originally slated to be the third reunion song on Anthology 3. However, that is not true.

George Martin produced almost all of the Beatles’ oeuvre. However, he did not produce the group’s ‘90s ‘reunion’ songs. The company line at the time was that Martin declined to produce the songs due to his failing hearing. However, this is not true.

Here, in the third and final part of this series, we look at the second ‘90s reunion song, ‘Real Love,’ as well as the consideration of the song ‘Now And Then.’

In Part 1 of this three-part essay, we looked at how the decision came about to make new music. Here, in Part 2, we look at how the first ‘reunion’ song – ‘Free As A Bird’ – came to be, as McCartney, Harrison, and Starr said it at the time.

We look back at how the Beatles two ‘90s Anthology ‘reunion’ songs came to be, as McCartney, Harrison, and Starr said it at the time. In Part 1 of this three-part essay, we look at how the decision came about to make new music.

Here, we look at a chronology of how the Beatles Anthology documentary came to be, as John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison, and Ringo Starr said it.

A Paul McCartney quote from the ’90s provides an explanation why the reunited Beatles never worked on ‘Grow Old With Me.’

“John’s original demo required too much work,” McCartney purportedly said. There’s only one problem. McCartney never said it.