Paul McCartney shares two unreleased versions of John Lennon-inspired track “Dear Friend”: Stream

Although he recently claimed that John Lennon only praised his songwriting one time, Paul McCartney still has a lot of adore for his longtime friend. That’s why their relationship spurred him to write “Dear Friend”, the closing track from Wings’ 1971 debut, Wild Life. Now, McCartney has shared a pair of previously unheard versions of “Dear Friend” gathered from the upcoming massive plush reissue of the album.

Set for a December 7th secrete( alongside a similarly expanded, remastered publication of 1973′ s Red Rose Speedway ), Wild Life has been remastered in full at Abbey Road studios. It boasts 25 bonus roads, including bumpy concoctions, original single edits, B-sides, residence registers and other previously unreleased textile. Amongst those added anthems are a brand-new remaster and residence demo versions of “Dear Friend”.

McCartney detailed the solemn process of revisiting “Dear Friend” in a press release 😛 TAGEND

“With’ Dear Friend’, that’s sort of me talking to John after we’d had all the sort of disputes about The Beatles breakup. I find it very emotional when I listen to it now. I have to kind of fail it back. I retain when I examined the sung recently, listening to the roughs[ remastering works-in-progress] in the car. And I imagined,’ Fucking – god .’ That poetic:’ Really certainly, young and recently united .’ Listening to that was like,’ Oh my God, it’s genuine! ’ I’m trying to say to John,’ Look, you are familiar with, it’s all hot. Have a glass of wine-colored. Let’s be cool.’ And luckily we did get it back together, which was like a great generator of hilarity because it would then be appalling if he’d been killed as circumstances were at that point and I’d never got to arrange it out with him. This was me reaching out. So, I think it’s very powerful in some quite simple course. But it was certainly heartfelt.”

Stream the new and demo versions of the line — along with a residence register of” Definitely, I Do” acted alongside Linda McCartney — below. You can grab a copy of the Wild Life plush reissue here.