FIRST TIME HEARING Now and then by The Beatles | MUSICIANS REACT

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[@leannmiller7153]

That was John in the beginning, then Paul came in. All four Beatles are on this song. There’s a great 12 minute KZbin video on how this came about.

[@MrDaiseymay]

Yes----they must watch it, then there'll be no guessing about who did what, and when.

[@tinamakaneole]

Beatles are eternal. They changed the world.❤😊

[@martinconnors5195]

They're awesome and shaped the modern world

[@SueProv]

The Only AI was the voice of John Lennon being separated from the piano off the original cassette. The visual dancing effects are from video from the song You Say Goodbye I Say Hello

[@patticrichton1135]

@SueProv the correct title is "HELLO GOODBYE" what you quoted was the first line from the song. ☺

[@SueProv]

@@patticrichton1135 LOL Thank you. I'll leave the comment so people can see your kind correction.

[@Ken_Dodds_Tickling_Stick]

As a 15/16 year old in 1961/62, I was a regular in the Cavern Club at the lunchtime sessions watching John, Paul, George and Pete before Ringo joined and Ive loved them since before theyvwere famous. The boys had this aura around them......something very special. I was in The Cavern the day that Mr Brian Epstein came to see them and John made a fool of him all the time he was in the audience. We all knew they were going to be big, but we didn't realise they would be as big as they are.......and now 61 years after the 1st release of Love Me Do, they then release their last song......a very fitting epitaph to the memory of "four lads who shook the world" The world will still be talking about the Beatles in 60 years. I'm now aged 78 and still living walking distance from the Cavern and love them more today as I did when I was 15. Best wishes from Liverpool ❤

[@primalengland]

I’m from just up the East Lancs Rd. I wonder how many people ‘get’ your Doddy user name. 😊

[@Ken_Dodds_Tickling_Stick]

@primalengland awrite La.....I'm in Kensington. We're virtually neighbours. Only us oldies will understand my username......now, I'm not saying yer old la, but he's more of a oldie to most now.

[@primalengland]

Thanks guys. I’m 69 and live just up the road from Liverpool. I grew up with the Beatles. Christmas when I was 9 I got ‘With the Beatles’, a plastic Beatles wig and an acoustic guitar. On the day that Sgt Peppers came out I sat on my friends front doorstep and listened to it on his older brother’s record player. One of those with the red vinyl covers. I had all the cigarette cards and watched all the films as they were released. It was a fantastic times of musical innovation. Gets me every time I hear this.

[@AudioLunch]

What a great comment! Thanks for sharing your story. Cheers

[@hlhappy2793]

My mum saw them live in 1963 and could not hear a thing due to all the screams Love the song, much love from Liverpool xx

[@Comtorn]

Peter Jackson from Lord of The Rings fame made the video and used the technology of AI to lift John's voice from the demo that he recorded in 1977. Watch the video of how they did it...AMAZING!

[@MrDaiseymay]

ALSO FAMOUS FOR, 'THEY SHALL NOT GROW OLD'', THE RESTORATION OF ARCHIVE SILENT FILM ,OF WW1,

[@vkaPAUL]

watch the 12 minute documentary of how they did this!!

[@mikefetterman6782]

This will absolutely be the LAST Beatle song ever. During their recording career, Paul said they never sat down to write and had a dry session. Everything they wrote, was either put on an album, or vetoed to the trash bin by Ringo, George, Paul or John. (They all had equal say, and If one person did not like a song, they wouldn't do it) There are no more tapes to scour to find anything else to work on. That one tape from 1978 that had REAL LOVE, FREE AS A BIRD, and NOW AND THEN on it, was the last bits and bobs that John had left lying around.

[@stevejoshua9536]

Actually, there are still songs on their bootlegged albums which were never fully developed and released.

[@gettinhungrig8806]

That's not right. Still lots of Lennon songs officially unreleased. Many aired on the Lost Lennon Tapes radio show in late 80s.

[@sx20Ramar]

Lots of stuff out there & in Paul's and Ringo's stash.

[@stevedahlberg8680]

Love your heartfelt reaction and it's wonderful that you can appreciate all the work that went into it and really how historic this is. And it's not just the latest Beatles song, it's almost certainly the last Beatles song. It was the last demo of John that they had access to and that moment at the end where it's from The Ed Sullivan Show and they bow and then fade out and then the Marquee behind them goes blank, and then after you paused it, the whole thing just goes to Black and holds for a while, and then that Apple logo comes up. I grew up with the Beatles and was in high school when John Lennon got assassinated and so you can imagine this hits me and a lot of other people really hard every time we watch it. And I love the song as well, and I really like Paul McCartney's slow-moving bass line on this. It's great and Ringo's drums just sounds so modern in a way but it still sounds just like the Beatles from back then.

[@AudioLunch]

Thanks for sharing. This Song is very meaningful and bitter sweet.

[@elizabethfranco1284]

Not Paul that was John on lead vocals with Paul coming in on harmony. You don’t know the difference between Paul and John ?

[@LeChaunce]

There's a 12 minute documentary on the making of the song. Please react to that.

[@dilandilanjoao4310]

Peter Jackson(,"the Lord of the rings "and "Get back ") is the director of the vídeo. He also put Paul McCartney today,on stage performing with John Lennon in 1969 on the roof top concert (their last),projected on a giant screen playing together on stage in 2023 the song "I've got a feeling ". Just pure magic 😊 take care

[@reallymysterious4520]

Great reaction boys - I'm not really a Beatles fan but I love their Ballads. My fav song of theirs is Eleanor Rigby, followed by Let it Be, Yesterday, While my Guitar Gently Weeps, Day in the Life, and this one would slot into the #6 spot

[@jeaniceprince6309]

One of the last words John said to Paul was... Remember me every now and then my old friend. It's like a love song from John to Paul. Love your reaction

[@MikeWalsh-f1g]

Great job guys! I've seen about 20 reactions to this video and you do the best job breaking down what's going on and what it means.

[@AudioLunch]

Awesome! Thank you!

[@chrislofotos]

Very nostalgic memories for me, I was fortunate to have seen the Beatles live in 1962, I was docked in Liverpool and introduced to the Cavern club by a Liverpudlian shipmate. Great time for U.K. music?

[@russelldye3751]

Paul plays most of the instruments in this including piano in Johns style and slide guitar in George’s style as homage to them!

[@pikemeredith5604]

Ever see Paul McCartney's music video of 1980 for his song Coming Up? He plays all the parts except for his wife Linda who plays two. He even parodies himself as a young Beatle from 1964. It's a fun song & video. If you love this one for the special effects then you'll love it too.

[@ralph0901]

you made a great point, that if the beatles make it ok, and they did, then everyone else will follow, hmmm some things never change

[@jackhargrove4275]

I was 7 yrs. Old when I saw The Beatles for the 1st time. Numb. 👆For Eternity , They started The British Invasion. All us Young Lady's Screamed So loud ,they could not hear them selves on stage. Crazy , Fun Times . I'm 68 yrs. Ole now.

[@MrDaiseymay]

Oh yes---i remember you now, in the crowd, he he.

[@bennyfactor1]

Video was by Peter Jackson

[@HaraldSeiwert]

As a lifelong Beatles fan I witnessed beatlemania as a child and you are right, they always used new recording technologies. Or unusual instruments (e.g. mellotron) or just being playfully experimental (playing tracks backwards and recording the rest over it). So it makes sense they are doing it again 🙂

[@PeterBuwen]

The Beatles are once again at the forefront of music technology in 2023. Isn't that insane? And by the way: Video by Peter Jackson.

[@bigjoe330]

The reveal of John Lennon's voice at the beginning is mind blowing..... l'm surprised you didn't recognize his very distinctive voice.

[@stevedahlberg8680]

Yeah, in the digital world you really can't hit 0 DB unless you're into bit crushing and noise and such but in the analog world you almost always over drove it just the slightest bit to give it that warmth. But what I find fascinating about this though is that the whole mix when it's just John's voice separated from his piano demo and his living room back in 77 that has been extracted from it comes in, the whole mix is pegging right around zero DB or a bit above if I remember, and then at the end of that verse, modern Paul McCartney joins him with the harmony and they show it again and now with both of their voices the whole mix is pegging right up around 3 db. Rings so true. After Yoko sent these demo tapes to them, they did the first two songs years ago for something in the 90s and during that session they really wanted to do this one, now and then, but his voice was just in with the piano on a simple cassette recording plus there was a television playing a kung fu movie in the background and other room noise. They had to give up on it after George Harrison recorded some rhythm tracks, Paul on base, and Ringo on drums, but then once Peter Jackson's team developed the software to do that working on the Beatles get back documentary, and it's also Peter Jackson that did this video, then it occurred to Paul to send him the tape and say can you remove John's voice from the background noise and they could! And so modern-day Paul and Ringo added some stuff to the 90s session, plus John's extracted vocal from the unfinished 1977 cassette scratch demo, and that's the mix. For the video, Peter Jackson used mostly never before seen footage from their 1967 work on Hello Goodbye.

[@AudioLunch]

Great insight and comment. Thank you

[@stevedahlberg8680]

George Martin's son Giles Martin did the string arrangement in the style of how he thought his father might have done it. There's a brief shot of him sitting next to Paul McCartney in the booth, and moreover, there were some George Harrison guitar tracks to this that were aborted but Paul thought there were some really interesting ideas in them, and so he sent them to Giles Martin hoping that it would influence his string arrangement and apparently it did.

[@AudioLunch]

Awesome! Love that George Martin’s son was part of it too

[@barbarjinx3802]

1977 johns vocal 1994 George’s acoustic strumming, Paul and Ringo play but they redo theirs in 2022 AI separates johns voice and cleans it up, Ringo lays drums again and Paul does the rest, piano guitars. He also gets Giles Martin to write an orchestration based on his fathers style. Giles also mixes and adds harmonies from a couple of old Beatles songs that fit well.

[@ralfmeyer9086]

This a real Beatles Song. Thè AI is only for seperate from Johns Voice.

[@geoff2504]

I appreciate that you listen to this song in a technical sense as much as musically, however, because you weren’t around when they were performing, you cannot feel the emotion that us older folks feel when we hear this. I’ve heard this song thirty or more times since its release and tears still flow. Peace 🌼

[@blitztim6416]

They even got the Hamburg footage from Pete Best.

[@mikeb36240]

Bittersweet hearing John sing again. 💔😥

[@jimnicosia5934]

Leave it to the Beatle to be the creative ones.

[@barbarjinx3802]

George Harrison was one of the first people in the world to own a Moog synthesizer and its use on Abbey Road was the first on a pop album. That album set the tone for the 1970s.

[@AudioLunch]

Love it. A musical pioneer

[@robinfoster7597]

Great reaction.

[@Isleofskye]

The Final Bow then they faded away and "The Beatles" signed disappeared forever signalling THE END...

[@patticrichton1135]

People below are asking you to REACT to the 12 minute VIDEO of the MAKING of "Now and Then" Here is the link for it, and I HOPE you WILL do a REACTION to it.... kzbin.info/www/bejne/d4GtcoSliKiqq6M By the way PETER JACKSON put the video together using the 1967 images of the Beatles form the FIRST and THIRD videos for their song "HELLO GOODBYE" (they made 3 versions) SO ALL the images you see of the Beatles are REAL and not artificially created. Same with ALL the vocals and instruments played.

[@gregpusczek4473]

brilliant

[@bobangell1679]

Watch the "making of" video first! Save yourself some embarrassment. It will answer all your questions. Good reaction. Unique POV.

[@martinconnors5195]

I've started crying again hearing this beautiful song. I cry because I miss both my Maternal grandparents. They both perished from the lethal Coronavirus pandemic in late January 2021(with the same week). Grandfather was 92, Grandmother was 94

[@TheClarita1984]

Hi guys, you could see Now and Then Short Film that explains, with Paul and Ringo and sean Lennon voices, what they did for this, with Peter Jackson

[@vovindequasahi]

There is a BIG difference between hip hop artists sampling music from others and what The Beatles did with this song. There is no sampling here... Everyone is playing their instruments and singing. The only thing that AI was used for was separating John's vocals from his piano in the original recording. Peter Jackson put everything together in the video btw. And yes this is by all definitions a new Beatles song released in 2023. See Paul MacCartney and Mick Jagger have this old feud about topping each other on the lists since way back. The Rolling Stones came out with a new album, so obviously The Beatles have to release at least a new song! lol!

[@sx20Ramar]

Watch the 2009 movie, Nowhere Boy. If not for John's aunt Mimi, the Beatles would have never existed! 😮

[@carolinenunez3455]

I absolutely loved your reactions! I was blowing my mind over all the same things you two did. I’m 71, and there’s nothing wrong with technology that enhances the experience. What they’ve done in this video is astounding. I caught something new every time I watched it, for at least 10 times. The attention to detail! And of course I usually bawl my eyes out, almost every time.

[@conceicaotavora5599]

Paul diz que é a última, mesmo que haja mais cassetes, George Harrison não gravou mais nada, logo não são Beatles 😢

[@AudioLunch]

True. They will never be another. Bitter sweet

[@kennethlee494]

I remember seeing them on Ed Sullivan when I was almost 4 at my grandma's house. My aunt had brought her 5 daughters over to see it because their tv was broke. The only thing I really remember about it was what granny said after their performance "I can't believe I missed "Branded" for this, those boys should have had their hair cut before coming on tv." That is the closest I got to ever seeing them live.

[@robertbarron1]

You guys should see the documentary on the making of the song on the Beatles KZbin channel

[@stephanieo2509]

Peter Jackson did the video.

[@patticrichton1135]

Oh ONLY John 's vocals and his piano at home in 1977 were on that cassette that he made in 1977.

[@direnova6284]

was always a big analogue fan but digital has really come on in the past few years, that step thing that digital does is disappearing as the steps become smaller and sounds more like a slide.

[@RedBuchanan-vw7tc]

John is all the lead vocals and Paul, Ringo and George just do harmonies

[@javiermgtaoism5702]

The orchestra director is none other than George Martin's son; Giles Martin

[@michaelpaz5052]

Peter Jackson created the video.

[@markrinehart8813]

For the story behind this song watch: kzbin.info/www/bejne/d4GtcoSliKiqq6M&ab_channel=TheBeatlesVEVO

[@Filippo.buccarelli]

🤍

[@ilovefacebookandebay]

The music is not ai. Just the video.

[@patticrichton1135]

@ilovefacebookandebay, The Video is NOT "AI" it is NOT artificially created. Present day Paul and Ringo are REALLY THEM, and 1967 George and John were taken from the Beatles' video for their 1967 song "HELLO GOODBYE" most of it was out takes from the third video that they made for "Hello Goodbye" So John and George were not artificially created either. It is REALLY them from that "HELLO GOODBYE" video as are the shots of young Paul and Ringo from 1967.

[@jnagarya519]

The demo was only vocal and piano. The piano was too loud. The two elements were separated, and the other instruments added. No different than they made recordings with overdubs over a basic track. "Everyone" did/does it.

[@jnagarya519]

The so-called "warmth" of analog is DISTORTION -- beginning with the recording of the tape crossing the tape head. Digital simply removes the distortion.