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On Saturday, December 10, 2005 at 11:27:59 PM UTC-5, Godzilla wrote:
> I know this has been talked about here, but I dont remember much what
> was said. Did McCartney ever confirm or deny this claim by Jack
> Douglas?
> _____________________________________________________________________________
> Beatles 'were to come together again'
> By James Bone in New York and Adam Sherwin
> IT WOULD have been the sensational return of the Fab Four. But the
> bullet that killed John Lennon 25 years ago today destroyed plans for a
> Beatles reunion, according to new claims.
> Lennon was making secret plans to record an album with the other former
> Beatles when he was killed, Jack Douglas, the producer who was working
> with him until minutes before his death, told The Times.
> He said in an interview in New York: "He and Paul planned to play on
> a Ringo album and that's how they were planning to do it, and George
> had not come aboard yet."
> The sticking point, however, was with Harrison. "George was already
> in a lot of hot water with John because of George releasing his
> autobiography and not really mentioning much of John in it," Mr
> Douglas said. "But I think they assumed that George would come along
> as soon as the thing got going."
> Mr Douglas, who won a Grammy award in 1982 for producing Lennon's
> Double Fantasy album, said that Lennon had already begun sending him
> material "earmarked verbally" on tape for the planned Ringo album.
> But he said that Yoko Ono was unhappy about the proposed reunion.
> "Yoko discouraged Paul coming around," Mr Douglas said. "There
> was a writing session somewhere in the Dakota [the apartment block
> where Lennon and Ono lived] and there was one cancelled which John did
> not know about, cancelled by a third party," he said. "He was
> waiting for Paul to show up. He was told that Paul did not show. Paul
> was told that John was too busy."
> The revelations were given credence by a new claim that a £6 million
> record contract, which McCartney signed with CBS in 1978, contained a
> clause that allowed him to record with the Beatles at any time.
> But Beatles experts said they were unaware of any Lennon reunion plans.
> Ray Connolly, author of The Beatles Complete, said: "John liked to
> help Ringo and this could have been a way he saw to get the guys back
> together in the studio.
> "But George and Yoko had rows and she would probably have tried to
> stop a reunion."
> Eliot Mintz, Ono's longtime spokesman, confirmed last night that
> Lennon and Ono had planned to go on a limited tour with Double Fantasy,
> but added that he knew knothing about the ex-Beatles playing together
> again.
> Mr Douglas, now 60, said that Lennon spent his final day finishing off
> a track featuring Yoko called Walking on Thin Ice. After weeks of work,
> they finally finished the mix at the Hit Factory studio and agreed to
> meet at 9am the next day to make a master tape.
> "We were all thrilled with it. His [Lennon's] feeling was that this
> was the one that was going to take Yoko over the top and make her
> critically acclaimed, and cut him loose so that he could do his things
> with 'the boys' without Yoko tagging along. She could do her own
> thing," Mr Douglas claimed.

They needed each other at this point. Lennon needed a real partner, and McCartney wouldn't have had to do those dubious records with Stevie Wonder and Michael Jackson!

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