February 1995: Paul McCartney and George Harrison add acoustic guitars to John Lennon's "Real Love" at the Mill Studio in Sussex, England. Ringo Starr was there too. ...
February 1995: Paul McCartney and George Harrison add acoustic guitars to John Lennon's "Real Love" at the Mill Studio in Sussex, England. Ringo Starr was there too.
On June 23, 1994, surviving Beatles Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr gathered at Harrison's house—better known as Friar Park in Henley-on-Thames, England—to shoot some extra footage for their new project, The Beatles Anthology.
In case you don't remember, Anthology was a hugely successful documentary TV series (now available on DVD), a three-volume set of double albums and a massive coffee-table book that focused on the long and winding road that was the Beatles' incredible career.
According to some sources, Paul, George and Ringo were originally supposed to perform the Beatles' "Let It Be" that day, and the resulting footage would've closed out the series. However, the late John Lennon's absence was apparently so overwhelming and upsetting that, after an unusually long discussion in George's garden, the three former Beatles decided to simply head to George's home studio and casually run through a few old songs—tunes that dated back to the Beatles' earliest days as a band.
In the video below, you can watch Paul, George and Ringo—"It was just two acoustic guitars and me on brushes," Ringo confirmed—play bits of "Raunchy" (0:01), "Thinking of Linking"(1:41) and "Blue Moon of Kentucky" (2:27).
At 3:30, the action moves outside to the aforementioned garden, where Paul and George are playing a pair of George's ukuleles as Ringo looks on (they really should've given him some bongos). At this point, they play Jimmy Reed's "Baby What You Want Me to Do"(3:30) and "Ain't She Sweet" (5:15), the old Tin Pan Alley standard.
"Raunchy" holds a special place in Beatles history. In 1958, a