‘Now and then’song for everyone involved, definitively closes out his magnificent catalogue. Beatles 61 years and one month after the release of the band’s first single, ‘Love me do’, the light has finally been seen.
Written and spoken John Lennon Worked and prospered in 1979 Paul McCartneyGeorge Harrison and Ringo Starr ‘Now and Then’, completed in 1995 by McCartney and Starr last year, is the last recording that can be said to have featured all four members of the Liverpool quartet. To: There are no other tapes like this left in Apple’s archivesThe deaths of Lennon in 1980 and Harrison in 2001, the company that manages the band’s legacy, make impossible any further collaborative project that did not require recreating their contributions from scratch using Artificial Intelligence. But of course it wouldn’t be the Beatles anymore.
‘Now and Then’ was released as a double A-sided single with ‘Love me do’ written on the back. “close the circle” A career that has shaped the future of popular music like no other in the last century. The album cover is the work of the eighty-year-old American pop artist. Ed Ruscha. The song will also be a part of the new extended version. legendary compilation albums ‘1962-1966’ and ‘1967-1970’ (‘red album’ and ‘blue album’) will be released on Friday, November 10.
“I miss you”
‘Now and Then’, first recorded by Lennon with a single piano accompaniment in his apartment in the Dakota Building in New York, is a ballad in A minor in which the musician expresses the pain he is experiencing. alienation of a loved one (a lover or a friend). McCartney’s voice was present in the chorus of the final version, a moving new meaning to the lines “sometimes / I miss you / sometimes / I want you to come back to me”.
The song’s release was preceded by a 12-minute video directed by Oliver Murray, outlining the long and winding history of “Now and Then” from the moment Lennon composed the track in 1979. technology Artificial intelligence developed by director Peter Jackson Permission was granted last year for the documentary series ‘Get Back’, which eliminated serious sound problems in the original recording and supplemented it with new tracks consisting of vocals, guitar, bass, drums and piano, and some string arrangements written by the author. Giles MartinHe is the son of legendary Beatles producer George Martin.