{"id":38259,"date":"2023-11-02T19:02:17","date_gmt":"2023-11-02T23:02:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/?p=38259"},"modified":"2023-11-02T19:02:51","modified_gmt":"2023-11-02T23:02:51","slug":"the-beatles-now-and-then-a-glimpse-of-greatness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/2023\/11\/02\/the-beatles-now-and-then-a-glimpse-of-greatness\/","title":{"rendered":"The Beatles\u2019 \u2018Now and Then\u2019: A Glimpse of Greatness"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The \u201cLast\u201d song with contributions from all four Beatles, made possible by new technology, finds its power in vulnerability and nostalgia.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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From left: Paul McCartney, John Lennon, George Harrison and Ringo Starr. \u201cNow and Then\u201d is billed as the band\u2019s \u201clast\u201d song. Credit…Getty Images<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

 \u201cNow and Then,\u201d released on Thursday, is billed by its label, Apple Corps, as \u201cthe last Beatles song.\u201d It\u2019s a lost-love song reconstructed from a piano-and-vocal demo that John Lennon recorded in the late 1970s, well after the Beatles broke up. Yoko Ono brought it and other Lennon demos to the surviving Beatles in 1994.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Paul McCartney, George Harrison, and Ringo Starr began building an arrangement around Lennon\u2019s recording in 1995, the year they released another posthumous song,\u00a0\u201cFree as a Bird,\u201d<\/a>\u00a0on the compilation album \u201cAnthology 1,\u201d followed by \u201cReal Love\u201d on \u201cAnthology 2\u201d in 1996.\u00a0\u201cNow and Then\u201d<\/a>\u00a0is also, inevitably, a marketing tool. It\u2019s the previously unreleased material added to the expanded, remixed reissue of \u201cThe Beatles 1967-1970,\u201d which arrives on Nov. 10 paired with an expanded, remixed version of \u201cThe Beatles 1962-1966.\u201d Those two compilations are better known as the Blue and Red albums.<\/p>\n\n\n \n

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