No Free Now is far from Beatles or Beatley sounding. I suppose you could say it is like a hip hop version of Revolution 9. It is Legitimate, with Paul. Integrating pieces of Beatles chatter & playing, kind of like Revolution #9. Supposedly even 'some' bits or elements of Carnival Of Light are included underneath, in the Free Now mix. Beatles sounding I vote no. Legitimate as a latter day track-collage, I have to agree & vote yes.
If we were or are compiling a list of latter-day post 1970 Legitimate Beatles-reunion tracks, reluctantly I vote yes.
If we had-have one normal post 1970 Paul song, I'd say sure add Free Now as the 2nd Paul track. But Free Now is so avant gard, we can't ' in my opinion' use it as the only McCartney track, in a tracklist of reunion material.
I wish to God Harrison was on tape for McCartneys 'Wanderlust' as he was intended to be. Or Beautiful Night, or any decent tune. I hate to say this, there are quite a few McCartney tracks that sound very, very Beatley. But the only Legitimate one, or borderline call is HERE TODAY. No One but Paul, strings & George Martin...But it is about John & their relationship, & historically McCartney with full endorsement by the other Beatles, included Yesterday-Blackbird & a few others. So bearing those precedents in mind. I think we could add Here Today & Free Now, & Blue Moon Of Kentucky, to a final Beatles EP or album, or tracklist.
Similar reasoning for All Those Years Ago & Grow Old With Me. There is George & Paul busking through 'Baby What You want me to do" but it would need editing mixing, as does Blue moon of Kentucky.
I try & remember & it's hard...any tracklist the song should be authentic, Legitimate post 1970, but if that isin't hard enough ( given the scarcity of legit tracks ). But it has to rise to a level of quality.
Any legit reunion tracklist, you can get away with throwing on , say 1 inferior track, a busk or 50 second type of Dig It or Maggie Mae, but you need a bed of 'several' studio quality tracks, before you can insert 1 or 2 bits & pieces.
It is my belief, that the Harrison & probably McCartney archives, probably the actual Beatles archives, contain a couple things, that might not even be admitted to. For another 20-30 years.
I think whatever the actual song title or lyrics, at least a partially recorded All For Love exists, probably in The Mill archives...I believe very, very likely, one or two or more studio instrumentals exist, from the original idea , that the surviving Threetles, would record incidental music for the upcoming Anthology documentary.
Whether that stuff exists, unless they happily ( happily for us ) mixed one as a forthcoming bonus or bside for Now & Then. I don't see it surfacing for decades, I'll be long dead. If they were gonna add a juicy little 90s bonus track, it would be for this. There is also the 20-30 busking jam songs from Henley on Thames jam, some including Jeff Lynne.
Nothing is ever going to sound better or more real, than When We Was Fab or Beautiful Night for Faux Beatles. But all of us know, those 2 songs are only George & Ringo & Paul & Ringo, Jeff Lynne on both & Geo Martin on the 2nd. I'd take both over All Those Years Ago everyday, they're better. But A T years ago is real & When We Was Fab isin't.
Sometimes I say to myself heck with it, take the 4 Lennon demos, the 3 Beatles songs, the Dae Limbs Grow Old With Me, that has an authentic sounding McCartney AI, add When We Was Fab by George, & Beautiful Night by Paul, throw in the recent Dae Limbs remix of Return To Pepperland all full & huge from extra Keyboards etc, & Ringo's other Threetles I'm The Greatest, & there is an incredible rather short Beatles reunion album...unfortunately it's fake though.
Making a real one is harder & not as good. I think McCartneys Cosmically Conscious is another that sounds very real & good, but he is only Beatle involved.