Talk:Real Love (The Beatles song)

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I've just seen this mentioned as how a Featured Article on a song should be, but sorry to say I think it needs some cleaning. There's plenty of sloppy language, and even some quotations without references. It's a very pleasant read, however. --kingboyk 20:08, 22 March 2006 (UTC)

I'm flattered to be listed as a source (Gordon Hodgson), hope you don;t mind if I update the links to my site to point to their current URLs.--Gordon 21:23, 19 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] What does this mean?

I'm not clear about what's being disputed here. Is it disputed that Lennon put the song on the backburner (which, for those who lack a decent command of the English language, means that work on the song was halted)? I don't see any claim in the sentence that the song would have been worked on for Milk & Honey, unless putting something on the backburner now means the exact opposite of what it used to state. Johnleemk | Talk 17:11, 6 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] In the Studio Quotation

In the last part of the In the Studio section, there is a large quotation indent, which is usually used for long quotes from a single source. Here it is used with several short quotes in quick succession. I'm wondering if it should still be indented. Alex 20:53, 11 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] George Martin not interested in the project

Is there a citation for this statement?

I remember an interview with George Martin saying he hadn't been asked to produce Free as a Bird - with a hint of bitterness. Paul said during interviews at the time of release that George (Harrison) wanted Jeff Lynne, Paul conceeded that George Martin's hearing had deteriorated to the extent that Martin wasn't the right person to produce the new stuff.

Apepper 09:31, 15 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Edit of "surprisingly did not use his Hofner bass"

It's not that suprising that Paul didn't use his Hofner bass. He changed the bass he used for recording in 1965; Geoff Emerick said in Complete Beatle Recording Sessions that Paperback writer was recorded using a Rickenbacker bass. The Beatles seems to have moved to Fender basses around 1967.

Apepper 09:52, 15 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] "Thought to have been written"???

Some editors keep restoring the first sentence to:

"'Real Love' is a song thought to have been written by John Lennon, although according to his widow Yoko Ono, it was quite well known that the song may have been bootlegged."

That sentence is poorly written. The logic of the assertion is not clear and who is asserting it isn't clear either: who thinks the song was written by Lennon and who doesn't? Rgarding the logic, bootlegging has nothing to do with authorship; the quote from Ono indicates that unauthorized people distributed unofficial versions of the song prior to when she gave the tapes to McCartney.

No evidence has been presented that there is a dispute over the authorship of the song. If any editor wants to restore the above sentence or something like it, he or she should be prepared to offer citable, reliable evidence. John Cardinal (talk) 13:40, 28 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Fair use rationale for Image:Real-love2.jpg

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BetacommandBot (talk) 05:35, 21 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Fair use rationale for Image:REALLUV1.JPG

Image:REALLUV1.JPG is being used on this article. I notice the image page specifies that the image is being used under fair use but there is no explanation or rationale as to why its use in this Wikipedia article constitutes fair use. In addition to the boilerplate fair use template, you must also write out on the image description page a specific explanation or rationale for why using this image in each article is consistent with fair use.

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BetacommandBot (talk) 04:01, 24 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] John Lennon song

Shouldn't the title of the article be "Real Love (John Lennon song)"? He wrote it after the Beatles were broken up, and they just polished it up as a single two decades later. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Kahlil88 (talk • contribs) 08:53, 29 January 2008 (UTC)