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Had the song been fully finished and recorded, Lennon and Ono had envisioned it as a "standard, the kind that they would play in church every time a couple gets married, with horns and other arrangements". [6], Lennon’s bandmate Ringo Starr covered “Grow Old With Me” for his 2019 album What’s My Name. Ono woke up one morning in the summer of 1980 with the music of "Let Me Count the Ways" in her head and promptly rang Lennon in Bermuda to play it for him.

The song was inspired from two different sources: from a poem penned by Robert Browning titled "Rabbi ben Ezra" and a song by Lennon's wife Yoko Ono called "Let Me Count the Ways" (which in turn had been inspired from a poem by Elizabeth Barrett Browning). Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License. The three remaining Beatles (Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr) never attempted to work on "Grow Old with Me" in a similar way that they had with the other Beatles "reunion" songs. The two new songs, "Grow Old with Me" and "Let Me Count the Ways" were originally meant for inclusion on the Double Fantasy album. [1], In October 2020 it was reported that the "mystery" of the baseball film that influenced the song which Lennon saw during a visit to Bermuda in 1980 was discovered to be A Love Affair: The Eleanor and Lou Gehrig Story, a film about a baseball player who died after battling a rare nervous system disorder. However, Lennon and Ono were working on a tight deadline to get the album finished and released before Christmas, and decided to postpone recording of the song until the following year (1981) for the follow-up album, Milk and Honey. It was also considered as a possible reunion single by his former bandmates during the making of The Beatles Anthology. “So in a way, it’s the four of us.”, Learn how and when to remove this template message, Working Class Hero: The Definitive Lennon, https://www.nme.com/news/music/beatles-expert-discovers-baseball-film-that-inspired-late-john-lennon-song-2769649, https://www.theguardian.com/music/2020/oct/04/how-a-tv-baseball-movie-inspired-late-lennon-love-song, https://faroutmagazine.co.uk/john-lennon-song-grow-old-with-me-film-inspiration/, "Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr reunite to cover John Lennon's "Grow Old with Me": Stream", https://ukulelesreview.com/grow-old-with-me-ukulele-chords/, Unfinished Music No. A new version of Last.fm is available, to keep everything running smoothly, please reload the site. This version was later included on the compilations Working Class Hero: The Definitive Lennon and Gimme Some Truth. Let us know what you think of the Last.fm website. Connect your Spotify account to your Last.fm account and scrobble everything you listen to, from any Spotify app on any device or platform. Scrobbling is when Last.fm tracks the music you listen to and automatically adds it to your music profile. In 1994, Yoko gave Paul McCartney some cassettes containing demo recordings of four of John Lennon's unfinished songs: "Grow Old with Me", "Free as a Bird", "Real Love" and "Now and Then" with "for Paul" written on them in John's handwriting. "Free as a Bird" and "Real Love" were the only ones completed. Some user-contributed text on this page is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License; additional terms may apply.