Rob Sheffield on The Beatles' Final Farewell
song. Sixty years after their debut single, “Love Me Do,” there’s a new closing chapter to the world’s most beloved group. On Thursday, November 2, the Beatles will drop their final song, “Now and Then.” John Lennon wrote it and sang it at the piano, at home in 1977. George Harrison played his guitar parts in 1995, when the three surviving Beatles attempted it at thesessions.
A 12-minute film introducing the song debuts on November 1, at 7:30 pm GMT written and directed by Oliver Murray. “Now And Then — The Last Beatles Song” is a perfect way to experience the tune for the first time — it tells how the song came to be, with Sean Ono Lennon, Paul, Ringo, and Peter Jackson telling the story, from John’s piano to Paul and Ringo cutting their parts in 2023. The trailer is available to see now.
Paul and Ringo began the project to finish the song their two mates left behind, with the full approval of Sean Ono Lennon and Olivia Harrison. “It was certainly important to Paul that it sounds like a Beatles song,” Giles Martin says. “You don’t want it to be some sort of novelty Beatles tribute record. There was no need, from my point of view anyway, for any sort of modernization. Ringo should be Ringo and he should be playing the drums, and that’s what Ringo does.
As a beautifully intricate detail, Paul and Giles mixed in backing vocals from three original Beatles classics. “I just thought if The Beatles were around, they’d probably sing harmonies at a certain point in the song,” Martin says. “And if there were backing vocals, it was important to have all the Beatles on it. So it’s taking just small elements from ‘Eleanor Rigby,’ ‘Here There, and Everywhere,’ and a bit of ‘Because.
“I Am The Walrus” is the mix that will start the most arguments — the new mix seems to lose some of the Shakespearean voices at the end, taken from a BBC radio production of King Lear. We still hear Edmund’s voice but as much of Oswald. “‘I Am The Walrus’ was so deliberately screwed up in its creation,” Martin says. “The biggest issue on ‘I Am The Walrus’ is that the stereo in the second half is basically an artificial double-tracked mono, just a mono that goes through an ADT machine.
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