“Now And Then”: the Beatles' last unreleased song will be released on November 2nd
Recorded voice and piano by John Lennon in the late seventies, it has had a long history. And now Fab Four fans dream again
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Beatles fans dream again. The Fab Four's latest unreleased song will be released worldwide on November 2nd.
It was the end of the 70s when John Lennon recorded a demo with voice and piano in his home, the Dakota Building in New York: he gave it the title "Now And Then". In 1994 his wife Yoko Ono gave the recording to Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr, along with other John demos, Free As A Bird and Real Love, released as singles in 1995 and 1996, as part of The Beatles Anthology project. The three recorded new parts and completed a first mix of Now And Then with producer Jeff Lynne which however never saw the light .
In 2021 the turning point with the docu-series The Beatles: Get Back, directed by director Peter Jackson, who using MAL audio technology from WingNut Films, "de-mixed" the mono soundtrack of the film, managing to isolate the instruments and vocals and all the individual voices within the Beatles' conversations.
Hence the new 2022 Revolver mix, taken directly from the original 4-track master tapes and which now brings the demo of Now And Then back to light. Peter Jackson and his sound engineers, led by Emile de la Rey, applied the same technology to John's original home recording. In addition to Lennon's voice, Now And Then contains the electric and acoustic guitar recorded in 1995 by George, a new drum part by Ringo and Paul's bass, guitar and piano, which matches John's original playing.
Not only that: Paul added a slide guitar solo inspired by George and with Ringo he did the backing vocals in the chorus. The final touch were the backing vocals from the original recordings of Here, There And Everywhere, Eleanor Rigby and Because. The result is a new Beatles song in all respects, 53 years after their breakup.
«And there it was, John's voice, clear and clear. It's very emotional – says Paul – And we all play, it's an authentic Beatles recording. I think it's an exciting thing to still be working on Beatles music in 2023 and about to release a new song that the public hasn't heard."
«It was the experience that brought us closest to having him back in the room with us, it was really exciting for everyone – Ringo's words -. It was like John was there, you know. Is fantastic". For Sean Ono Lennon, John's son, «it was incredibly touching to listen to them work together after all the years that have passed since my father's death. It's the last song my dad, Paul, George and Ringo got to do together. It's like a time capsule and it's as if everything was predestined to be this way ."
(Unioneonline/D)
