'Grow old with me': A look back at the song that brought John Lennon, Paul McCartney and ...
‘Grow Old With Me’: A Look Back at the Song That Brought John Lennon, Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr Back Together Again
During the making of Ringo Starr’s 2019 album What’s My Name, his producer Jack Douglas brought up the Bermuda Tapes: had he heard the message John Lennon had left for him on them?
These tapes were demos recorded in the summer of 1980 that went unreleased by John, who died in December of that year. In them, he enthusiastically states that one of the songs would be “great!” for Ringo.
The message seemed to have come out of nowhere but would act as a major inspiration almost forty years later.
“That’s why I love life,” Ringo says. “Things just arrive!”
He says the song he heard following the message was beautiful. Why it was left unfinished, they will never know — but Ringo was up for the task.
In the studio, he recorded vocals and piano. And when his friend and fellow Beatle Paul McCartney came into town, he asked him to come and work on it with him. Over the years, the two had continued to collaborate, and asking Paul to join in on this track just made sense.
“He can only enhance the track,” Ringo says of Paul, “that’s all he does when he plays, every time.”
That makes three Beatles back together again on this record — but Ringo suggests it’s almost like the whole band is present.
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