I Don't Want To Lose You [1977]

Surfaced originally from a tape source on the His Master's Choice bootleg John Lennon: At Home which was intended to be the basis for the third "reunion" single accompanying the Beatles Anthology. The actual title, 'I Don't Want To Lose You', was confirmed in 2005 when the composition was featured in the John Lennon broadway musical. The buzz running throughout the demo is part of the original recording, as Jeff Lynne mentions having trouble with restoring the demo for overdubbing purposes by the remaining Beatles. Fortunately, the cause of this problem was sorted out and the rest of the tape with three takes of both 'Free As A Bird' and 'Whatever Happened To..?' is free of it. It's unclear how much work on the song was done in 1995 before it was abandoned and Anthology 3 didn't feature a new song but was forced to open with 'A Beginning' instead.

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[MarcoZucchi81]

With no doubd it' s absolutely the best unreleased song by John, isn' t it?

[angelbaby0109]

I just looked it up with the U.S. Copyright Office and it is listed as "I don't want to lose you" (no capital letters) and was registered by Yoko Ono in 1985. There's an amazing amount of information about his copyrighted works there, for those interested in learning more about his incredible volume of work.

[Artetconnerie]

It's Now and then ;)

[ywba]

So THIS is the original title. I didn't know this till now! Thanks so much!