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Now And Then
- HEATHER BARNES
- Oct 9, 2024
- 1 min read
Updated: Nov 18, 2024
"Now and Then" is a song by the English rock band the Beatles, released on 2 November 2023. Dubbed "the last Beatles song", John Lennon wrote "Now and Then" in the late 1970s, and recorded a five-minute piano demo in around 1977 on a tape recorder at his home at the Dakota in New York City. The lyrics are typical of the apologetic love songs that Lennon wrote in the latter half of his career. For the most part the verses are nearly complete, though there are still a few lines that Lennon did not flesh out on the demo tape performance.
After Lennon's death in 1980, the song was shelved for nearly three decades until it was completed by his surviving bandmates Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr, using overdubs and guitar tracks by George Harrison (who died in 2001) from the abandoned 1995 sessions.
The final version features additional lyrics by McCartney. Lennon's voice was extracted from the demo using the machine-learning-assisted audio restoration technology commissioned by Peter Jackson for his 2021 documentary The Beatles: Get Back . The song received widespread acclaim from critics, who felt it was a worthy finale for the Beatles. It is the only Beatles UK number-one single not attributed to the Lennon–McCartney songwriting partnership.
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