Gotta spare £23?

[btb]

Now and Then: listen to the ‘final’ Beatles song | The Beatles | The Guardian

The song is embedded in the above Grauniad article, erm, it doesn't sound like The Beatles to me, more like an homage by one of the Gallagher brothers. Pleasant enough but I doubt I'll give it a second listen (6/10).

Oh, and like the title says it's available in various formats for up to £23 from TheBeatlesStore^TM!

Edited November 2, 2023 by btb

[Mark Connolly]

It's ok.

Real Love was miles better, they should have stopped there

[eindhovendee]

I quite liked it. Loved LG's comment under that article.

[Lurkst]

Initially I'm impressed with the technical work to produce it more than the song. Sounds like The Beatles had reformed with Julian Lennon.

 

[Melanius Mullarkey]

In a word, underwhelming.

[pozbaird]

It’s quite something to think that the vocal was recorded by Lennon in his house in the 1970s, on a cassette tape which Yoko gave to Paul, George & Ringo. Quite something to know Harrison recorded guitar parts in the 1990’s, and McCartney & Starr have, in 2022/23, recorded new parts. McCartney re-creating Lennon’s original piano parts, and backing vocals from three old Beatles songs woven into it. Quite something, the technology that allowed Lennon’s vocal to be extracted and tarted up from a 1970s cassette. To know all four Beatles are on it across time actually gave me a wee goosebump moment while hearing it for the first time. Having said that, I just cannot absorb it into my mind as being a genuine Beatles track, to download and add to my Beatles collection.

It’s a curio. Technically impressive, but I won’t be downloading it, and I don’t regard it as the ‘last Beatles song’. The last Beatles song was the last one the four Beatles recorded, while they were all alive, and were still actually a band. IMHO.

 

[Lurkst]

1 hour ago, pozbaird said:

The last Beatles song was the last one the four Beatles recorded, while they were all alive, and were still actually a band. IMHO.

Fab trivia, their final recording session only featured one Beatle, who?

[Derry Alli]

Absolutely terrible.

Is this just AI?

[btb]

 

9 hours ago, Lurkst said:

Fab trivia, their final recording session only featured one Beatle, who?

Let It Be Paul, the control freak, sneaking back into the studio to overdub one of George's guitar parts...

[scottsdad]

The analogy I guess would be Queen's Made In Heaven album. The difference there being that Freddie Mercury knew he was dying so recorded loads of vocals, knowing that the other guys would add the music after he died. 

This sounds far inferior, probably because it wasn't intentionally done. 

[Lurkst]

38 minutes ago, btb said:

Let It Be Paul, the control freak, sneaking back into the studio to overdub one of George's guitar parts...

Let It Be is right, but it was actually Ringo, drumming on Phil Spector's re-recording of that album (which was the last straw for Paul).

 

[Lurkst]

Heard Now and Then in the car this morning, so an upgrade on the sound from my phone, and was quite impressed with the audio, but it's not going to become any more of a Beatles classic than Free As A Bird or Real Love.

If I paid £15 for the 7" I think I'd be playing Love Me Do on the flip more.

 

 

Edited November 3, 2023 by Lurkst

[Lurkst]

Video released 

 

[stevieKTID]

It's really grown on me I wasn't sure on first listen, for me it's 100% a Beatles record the fact that the line Now and then I miss you were the last words John said to Paul when they met at the Dakota building ties it all together, I'll admit I'm rather obsessed with The Beatles so my opinion is definitely biased.

It's sentimental and melancholic, from a person perspective the chorus has really resonated with me - the last year has been rather difficult and it's taken it's toll ( Mrs Stevie ktid has been really ill she's slowly getting better but it's been difficult and a lot has changed plus my mother's dementia has gotten worse, she's slowly becoming different person ) after a few listens the chorus really hit me and I found myself getting quite emotional ( I'm a sentimental fool at times ) 

I was listening to I am the eggpod, I'd highly recommend this podcast to any fans of The Beatles, the host mentioned a quote by Paul Simon about songwriting "the listener completes the song" and that summed it up for me.

Right I'm off to my favourite record store to purchase the reissue of the blue album on vinyl.

 

Edited November 11, 2023 by stevieKTID