The version of "Grow Old with Me" mixed and arranged by George Martin played over pictures of John and Yoko. Quite a moving fan video.
1998, Anthology
John and Yoko were huge fans of married poets Robert and Elizabeth Browning, and had fancied themselves as the modern day equivalent of the two. During the period when they were working on songs for Double Fantasy, Yoko woke up one morning with music in her head to set to Elizabeth's poem, "How do I love thee? Let me count the ways..." She called John, who was in Bermuda at the time, and played it for him. That afternoon, John came across a film on TV which included Robert's "Rabbi Ben Ezra" and decided to write a song around it. Yoko and John's two beautiful companion pieces, "Let Me Count the Ways" and "Grow Old with Me," didn't fit onto Double Fantasy, but eventually made their way onto the 1984 album Milk and Honey. The version of "Grow Old with Me" on Milk and Honey was a home demo that John and Yoko had recorded by themselves, a demo which was later given to Paul, George, and Ringo to work with on their Anthology project. They discarded it, and Yoko herself revived the song on John's 1998 Anthology when she asked former Beatles producer George Martin to clean it up and add orchestration. This is the version that moves me the most, as it's far more polished and lush. John had always intended it to be the kind of song played in church during weddings, and that's exactly what this version is.
Noteworthy Cover: Electro-pop duo the Postal Service recorded an atmospheric, electronica-inspired cover of "Grow Old with Me" in 2005 for Amnesty International's "Make Some Noise" campaign, which would later appear on Instant Karma: The Amnesty International Campaign to Save Darfur.
Someone filming something at a ferry with Postal Service's cover of "Grow Old with Me" played in the background. It's a shitty video, but you can hear 35 seconds of the song pretty well.
