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Music => Other Music => Topic started by: Fishy on October 26, 2023, 02:35:16 PM

Title: New Beatles
Post by: Fishy on October 26, 2023, 02:35:16 PM
The Beatles to release emotional 'final song', Now and Then, next week https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-67207699
Title: Re: New Beatles
Post by: Thenop on October 26, 2023, 03:06:45 PM
Interested in hearing the song. Not buying the new red and blue albums for it though
Title: Re: New Beatles
Post by: Fishy on November 01, 2023, 07:53:17 PM
Nice film on the one show about the making of the song...
Title: Re: New Beatles
Post by: Slim on November 02, 2023, 03:50:08 PM
Just listened to it.

https://thebeatles.lnk.to/NowAndThen

Decent job of cleaning up and orchestrating it, but - as I expected - it's poor. It had to be, or we'd have heard it years, or decades ago.
Title: Re: New Beatles
Post by: Fishy on November 02, 2023, 04:46:09 PM
Yes just listened.. it's ok ..nothing great.. not offensive
Title: Re: New Beatles
Post by: R6GYY on November 04, 2023, 05:35:52 PM
Quote from: Slim on November 02, 2023, 03:50:08 PMJust listened to it.

https://thebeatles.lnk.to/NowAndThen

Decent job of cleaning up and orchestrating it, but - as I expected - it's poor. It had to be, or we'd have heard it years, or decades ago.
The film was pretty interesting. They did start work on "Now And Then" in 1995, but just didn't have the technology to separate John's voice from the piano on his demo tape so they put it on the back burner.

When I heard the version without the piano (thanks to the advances made during Peter Jackson's Get Back film which I still haven't seen but may well do as part of our Christmas film list), it was like magic. So clear.

Interesting to hear the finished song and watch the very clever video, but not one I would rush out and buy, or indeed listen to more than I need to. A contender for Christmas number 1 though I should think. Do charts still exist? Is Christmas number 1 still a thing?
Title: Re: New Beatles
Post by: Fishy on November 04, 2023, 06:04:20 PM
The making of the song was actually more interesting than the song itself..