The 'final' new Beatles song will be released next week as part of 50th anniversary reissues of the 'Red' and 'Blue' collections.
” this summer built around a late 1970s John Lennon solo demo, the group’s Apple Corps Ltd. today confirmed details about the track as well as two related reissues. “Now and Then” will arrive Nov. 2, backed on its Ed Ruscha-designed dsingle by the‘ 1962 debut U.K. single, “Love Me Do.” A 12-minute making-of film, written and directed by Oliver Murray, will be released the day before, with a music video for “Now and Then” set for Nov. 3.
“Now and Then” and “Love Me Do” will also appear on expanded 50th anniversary reissues of the beloved Beatles compilationsIn June, McCartney told the BBC that the then-unnamed Beatles track was built around “John’s voice and a piano” isolated from the original cassette tape utilizing the same technology which was instrumental in bringing out new audio details in Peter Jackson’s 2021 Beatles documentary .
With help from producer Jeff Lynne, McCartney, Ringo Starr, and George Harrison spent time trying to turn “Now and Then” into a complete song during 1994 and 1995 sessions for the , but could not agree on a path forward and left it unfinished. Two other “new” Beatles songs were created from similar Lennon demos for the project, “Free As a Bird” and ‘Real Love.
“Back in 1995, after several days in the studio working on the track, George felt the technical issues with the demo were insurmountable and concluded that it was not possible to finish the track to a high enough standard,” says Harrison’s widow Olivia. “If he were here today, Dhani and I know he would have whole-heartedly joined Paul and Ringo in completing the recording of ‘Now and Then.’”
“It was incredibly touching to hear them working together after all the years that Dad had been gone,” says Lennon and Yoko Ono’s son Sean, who was only five years old when his father was murdered in New York in December 1980. “It’s the last song my dad, Paul, George, and Ringo got to make together. It’s like a time capsule and all feels very meant to be.
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