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I'm not a huge Beatles fan like my friend is, or my wife. But the new "Now and Then" song is rather sentimental and touching. I was afraid John Lennon had recorded some other hippie crap song, but it turned out to be a good song. Thanks to technology from Peter Jackson's company, they were able to take a recording from an audiocassette, clean it up, strip the piano from the background, and make it sound incredible. And since for the past year I have been remembering old friends long gone, wanting to thank them but being unable to, the song brought a tear to my eye. It's fitting that this will be the final Beatles song.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Opxhh9Oh3rg
Thanks for sharing I'd for sure watch again. First, that's brilliant they can do this with technology, I normally don't like things like this. There's lots of photoshop videos by the music industry with dead artists and an alive artist singing the same song. That's creepy to me. I didn't get this vibe at all. I don't remember this song but it's great and the video shows the good times of ordinary guys who just loved playing music together.
I've never been a big fan of the Beatles either. I first got exposed to them my senior year of high school. I went to a very small school and my senior class had so few people we could all fit into the big cars from the 70s & 80s. Five of us would usually go to lunch at least twice a week. The guy driving influenced me to a lot of different music genres. One day the Beatles, next might be CCR or Zeppelin. My take away of the Beatles music it's very upbeat and happy music. Once I got much older I started listening to the lyrics and that paints a different story. I might listen to the hits a couple times a year for nostalgia.
Even though there is footage of The Beatles at Graceland meeting and hanging with Elvis he wasn't a fan. The meeting was probably forced by the record label and Tom Parker. Of course we never know if what we read is true. Elvis was very vocal about most of his opinions of a person or the world, good or bad.
Off topic but a good perspective on the Beatles for people my age that wasn't around.
Elvis Meets Nixon to discuss youth, drugs and security of the nation
It's ironic Elvis was against drugs and they killed him, brainwashed by doctors pharmaceutical drugs were ok.
The early years of The Beatles with the first wave of their British Invasion sound was very upbeat for sure. Later on they did some weird stuff like Revolution 9. I'd never heard that before, but my daughter likes to find weird, creepy stuff sometimes on YouTube and she shared that one with me. Bizarre. I'm not keen on their later stuff. For this new song, this was a song that Lennon had recorded himself on tape before he died. The remaining 3 tried to do something with it in the '90s, but they didn't have the technology to clean it up and have it sound good. Peter Jackson's new technology is able to surgically remove the piano from his voice, remove the tape hiss, sharpen his voice, and make it sound like a modern recording. It's his voice, but by miracle of musical dissection, it's restored.
I read "The Outsiders" in junior high and learned of the whole Beatles/Elvis rivalry among fans. Funny how The Beatles did a cover song or two of Elvis songs starting with their second album.
I don't think I replied to your comment if I did apologizes for my double reply.
I beat that was a great read. I'll have to check it out. Hope you are having a great Thanksgiving.
No double reply. "The Outsiders" was an assigned reading for my English class. I did have a great Thanksgiving yesterday (it's Friday here already). Thanks! You too.
As we get older it seems that we remember the long ago past like it was yesterday even though we can't remember what we had for dinner last night...😂...
This was a touching song by The Beatles that I was not familiar with...but like you I have many old friends that pop up in memories and I am grateful for each one that contributed to making my life the unique tapestry that it is for me...so many people that I learned from, loved and admired...gone but not forgotten...the greatest gift that God gives us is the gift of love and there is no greater love than the love of a true friend...I actually named one of my sons Jonathan David because I was so impressed with the friendship of these two...thank you for sharing this...it brought a tear to my eye also...
I especially liked the parts showing young George Harrison goofing around. He was a goofball and I appreciate that. I guess that was really him doing that backflip off of a chair in his "Set on You" music video from the '80s.
This.
Thanks. That was GREAT!