“If [this] isn’t an important milestone in the history of modern music, then I don’t know what is,” Oliver Murray, director of “Now and Then: The Last Beatles Song,” tells us.
is a mere mortal, just like the rest of us. Even with all the breathtaking highs of a life lived almost completely in the spotlight for 60-plus years, he’s also sustained crushing lows. He lost his mother to breast cancer as a teenager, as well as his first wife, Linda, in 1998. One of his oldest friends, hiswas assassinated in 1980. Through it all, it seems to have been music that has kept the almost preternaturally optimistic McCartney going.
In retrospect, considering the subject matter and arc of the songs, “Free As A Bird,” “Real Love,” and “Now and Then”—the song that’s haunted McCartney and that will finally hit streaming services tomorrow—are a perfect, final Beatles EP of sorts.
“All of those memories come flooding back,” McCartney adds in the doc. “My god, how lucky was I to have those men in my life, and to work with those men so intimately, and to come up with such a body of music?”about “Now and Then” suggested it was created nefariously using AI, McCartney makes clear in the film, “We’ve all played on it, so it is a genuine Beatle recording.”
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