A very special demo that John Lennon made in 1977, being one of his last demos recorded.
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@comedyriff5231 Жыл бұрын
This demo, Real Love, Now and Then and Grow Old With Me. Just John Lennon, a piano and a tape recorder. Some of the most hauntingly beautiful demos you´ll ever hear.
@doctorwhoproductions83410 ай бұрын
‘Hauntingly beautiful’ is so poetic
@ArmanBaig10 ай бұрын
@@doctorwhoproductions834and it applies so well. john writing his most intimate music, with good things on the horizon, just before his premature death. “haunting” couldn’t be more fitting.
@eleonorapisarova641310 ай бұрын
vďaka ❤ 🙏❤ 🙏
@aisasia721010 ай бұрын
Plus She's a friend of Dorothy😉
@gusterguy018269 ай бұрын
John was about to enter a new hot streak. His Double Fantasy songs were excellent, then we hear stuff like this
@bobsaget832 Жыл бұрын
I am praying we get a remastered Free as a Bird with this new, cleaner version of Johns vocal track
@spaceengineer1452 Жыл бұрын
And remixed. Hope they make R drums sound... like drums.
@georgehtwells Жыл бұрын
I think we will do soon, probably using Peter Jackson’s AI technology
@Alef.93 Жыл бұрын
@@spaceengineer1452 It's a bit complex. Jeff Lynne is known for recording drums with a lot of ambience and with the microphone very close to the instrument. These characteristics are already in the drum recording. Unless Ringo re-records this track.
@theneweraofmusic5578 Жыл бұрын
Yea give it another 25 years you will get it lol
@k-asp3r75411 ай бұрын
Why do you think Its John voice??because someone Say that..there s no evidence and doesnt sound at all like John.
@stumbling7 ай бұрын
I'm writing songs for the first time in my life and these old recordings are such a help. I don't feel quite so anxious about putting my own thoughts and feelings down when I can listen to a legend going through the same process. Thanks, John.
@kegar98997 ай бұрын
That’s amazing !! Good luck on your songwriting!
@robbiepeterh10 ай бұрын
The way he seamlessly switches keys is so masterful and effortless.
@StacheBigote9 ай бұрын
A’s flat VI and minor iv chords serving as the literal key to the effortless key changes with the V of each key being used as bridges to get us between them. And playing off the beaten to death doo wop progression. It’s like he was saying “this old horse has more to give us” Guy was something else, man.
@miguelangellucasmedinablac64198 ай бұрын
He’s just a beatle
@beastybacon1998 ай бұрын
at this point if the Beatles got back together it wouldn’t be 1+1+1+1=10 it would be 1+1+1+1=100
@whitebirchtarot9 ай бұрын
There’s somethings, so pure about John’s voice that I’ve never heard come out of any other singer. I will always miss him. 💕😪
@evanschubert11139 ай бұрын
I agree. He hated his voice and I think that sums him up perfectly. What made him vulnerable is what made him most beautiful and talented
@whitebirchtarot9 ай бұрын
@@evanschubert1113 I love your comment. Yes, that’s it.
@justthinking6502 ай бұрын
@@evanschubert1113 That's why John is so unique. His voice isn't conventional and he did many things with it.
@orunir10 ай бұрын
So this is the power of the song that made the three surviving Beatles cry in the studio... 😭😭
@Tonystony198410 ай бұрын
100% legit new Beatles song because of it 😎😎😎
@Tonystony198410 ай бұрын
Because on the cassette it was written "For Paul"
@auramac10 ай бұрын
Not true.
@knockedoutloaded27910 ай бұрын
There is guitar version with mo verses prob clearer
@lomba369 ай бұрын
This is a priceless gem. Although, George's great slide guitar enhances it even more. I wish he could have soloed on Now and then as well.
@natetheannihilnater18869 ай бұрын
Much better without Paul harmonizing though. I think if he came in less it would of been fine but john's melody was strong enough on its own.
@davidjohn87439 ай бұрын
Man, I'd love to be able to sit at a piano and come up with this kind of stuff. Going from F# minor to Fmaj 7 is pure genius level stuff. This is one my faves of all time. Love it!
@sallykohorst88033 ай бұрын
Very lovely John and we all miss you! You never should have left us. .
@jayneethling83714 ай бұрын
ASOLUTE MUSICAL GENIUS DAMN I MISS HIM IM 72
@knockedoutloaded279 Жыл бұрын
John also recorded ..when this life is done on this cassette, and its meant to be brilliant..
@azamazasog Жыл бұрын
Where is it? I would really like to hear it but I can’t find it.
@knockedoutloaded279 Жыл бұрын
Unreleased
@pastywhiteboy93939 ай бұрын
This is one of John’s best-ever tracks in my opinion, along with Real Love. Kind of crazy that two of the best John Lennon tracks are hidden away as demos that he never used.
@alanoconnor47459 ай бұрын
He is the master
@BrianCarnevaleB269 ай бұрын
Such a simple key progression creates a brilliant piece of music.
@trollvidde7 ай бұрын
@@BrianCarnevaleB26 is it really a simple chord progression tho?
@martinefrancoise64194 ай бұрын
Happy year dear John rest in heaven love you❤
@RobertoZadik-en8zc10 ай бұрын
So spiritual, sensitive, idealistic Genius, his solo career was Simply Amazin. This original version Is fantastic, oh great
@thepoplin10 ай бұрын
he was great but idealistic? you misunderstand him
@danydany3349 ай бұрын
I was very resistant to wish for a new remix of the 90s song but after hearing this and Now And Then, I’m in. This is so beautiful and a cleaner mix would do so much justice to what already is an amazing song
@heitorp10 ай бұрын
Makes me cry every time. Hauntingly beautiful.
@ohdear20019 ай бұрын
Weirdo.
@elizabethflorido7350 Жыл бұрын
A primeira vez que eu ouvi essa canção demo do John foi como se ele tivesse ressuscitado e nunca nos deixado. A emoção foi tanta que não parava de chorar. Lembro da sensação que tomou conta de mim até hoje. De ter falado ao telefone com um amigo e chorarmos porque estávamos ouvindo o John de novo numa inédita.
@zaclongchar537610 ай бұрын
Love of John lennon is still in Millions Heart. Love you Legend.
@mauriziocolecchia3475 Жыл бұрын
Actually I was told that the break wasn't written by John but added later by Paul. So, I am really surprised to hear it by John in 1977! It's clear that I misunderstood...
@kewkabe Жыл бұрын
@@HandM80 They filled out the lyrics in that middle part and changed a couple of chords as you can hear.
@bobwingate1071 Жыл бұрын
Hey you didn't fully misunderstand. John had "Whatever happened to.. the love that we once knew?" but then drifts into "doo-doo-doo's".. Paul added the "Can we really live without each other?" etc. etc. etc.
@uggsxx915511 ай бұрын
@bobwingate1071 only because John couldn't form the lyrics cause he was at a roadblock in his writing and Paul has said this in an interview, it's amazing how they stepped in and finished this masterpiece
@auramac10 ай бұрын
@@uggsxx9155 BS. It was a new song, unfinished. He was exploding with new ideas in 1980.
@uggsxx915510 ай бұрын
@@auramac even though my source was paul himself? John was just starting to get back into writing music when he died
@bigfella9579 ай бұрын
Imo John was a master at combining his playing and unique singing to create his own songs and it just flows out of him. So inspiring to be that level of songwriter
@johnnymeyer42539 ай бұрын
True level: genius
@juanprogamer8696 Жыл бұрын
Free as a bird It's the next best thing to be Free as a bird Home, home and dry Like a homing bird I'll fly As a bird on wings Whatever happened to The life that we once knew? Can we really live without each other? Where did we lose the touch That seemed to mean so much? It always made me feel so Free as a bird Like the next best thing to be Free as a bird Home, (home) home and dry Like a homing bird I'll fly As a bird on wings Whatever happened to The life that we once knew? Always made me feel so free Free as a bird Is the next best thing to be Free as a bird Free as a bird Free as a bird
@bimbolo8210 ай бұрын
He definitely says ‘it’s next worst thing to be.’ Listen to verse one. It’s pure Lennon, the negative wordplay. I love it. And every print out of the lyrics has it wrong!
@charlesbrickner60069 ай бұрын
He does not say worst. He says best lol Also The following verse is not in this Lennon take...this verse was added in the 90s by Sir Paul McCartney: "Can we really live without each other? Where did we lose the touch That seemed to mean so much? It always made me feel so" Paul really knew how to work with John's words. @@bimbolo82
@spottss9 ай бұрын
@@bimbolo82 it’s best
@johnnymeyer42539 ай бұрын
@@bimbolo82 I hear ya. Loud. And dry. ;)
@psxemulator8 ай бұрын
I always thought it sounded like he sings "it's the next best thing to've been". On this recording it really sounds like "been" instead of "be"
@Synchronicety10 ай бұрын
wearing this music in my heart for my mother
@TheLovepools9 ай бұрын
Seriously great chords.
@kamiljanicki9393 Жыл бұрын
John's voice sound much better compared to Anthology 1 version
@johnmc3862 Жыл бұрын
30 years of sound technology improvements.
@johnmc3862 Жыл бұрын
Wow sound the is so clean and clear…❤❤❤
@uggsxx915511 ай бұрын
My grandmas favorite song is imagine and sometimes i prefer this version of free as a bird because it was made on the same piano and has the same kind of vibe, i miss my grandma so much but i know she is free as a bird flying high
@scarpergirl10 ай бұрын
It wasn't made on the same piano. Free as a Bird was recorded in the Dakota in New York, and Imagine was recorded in Ascot in the UK. There's nothing to suggest that he moved his piano from Ascot to New York.
@carmelopetti11 Жыл бұрын
Now Artificial Intelligence is doing incredible things with voices, images and imagine the amount of unimaginable things we can do now with these "free" technologies; Now I can hear Paul sing his new songs with his 60's voice range... I can listen to covers of other songs with Lennon's voice, my point is, now what is and what will be the real thing? now if we are in the era of "strawberry fields... forever?" "nothing is real"
@NoButIGotCheezWhiz9 ай бұрын
This is VERY clean, especially compared to what you were working with. I hope you’re proud of it! :)
@janebrennan46919 ай бұрын
omg my heart both lifts and breaks 💕 the world would have been a different place had he lived
@thomaslaukien89839 ай бұрын
Thank you for your work Remaster101.
@janaparoubkova5895 Жыл бұрын
Very beautiful 🤩🤩❤️
@ellenbeckmann4293 Жыл бұрын
Wonderfu🎼🎶🎤🎹l like Now and Then..lg Ellen from Germany ✌ ❤
@livyintheskywithdragons9 ай бұрын
It makes me cry buckets 🥹😭😭🦄🦄
@vampyros12 ай бұрын
So glad they changed that one chord in this, which made an already great song even better.
@musicmastersdrumtracks2428 Жыл бұрын
Unfortunately, my now and then video that I made in May was removed from youtube for "antipiracy". I looked into this and apparently its really not a mistake as the song was struck down everywhere on youtube even videos that have been up for more than a decade and only the fan-made "beatles" version can be found on youtube (nvm even the fan made versions got deleted) This could be proof that the beatles project that Paul Macca was talking about could actually be in progress right now... Enjoy this video tho! Now And Then: drive.google.com/file/d/148reDB9IUTHpIe9vvCczzyR0lX5x5Me0/view?usp=sharing
@knockedoutloaded279 Жыл бұрын
It's happening; I hope its brilliant....
@kewkabe Жыл бұрын
Yes, Paul finished it up and announced it will be released later this year. Ringo also commented that he added drums and that Paul and Giles Martin came out to L.A. to add strings.
@WorkPrintStudios6611 ай бұрын
Do you have real love?
@aidenmcnatt611310 ай бұрын
What a beautiful demo of free as a bird...only if John could have finished this with the rest of the fab 4
@adude80469 ай бұрын
This is actually better in many ways to what they released. The lyrically gaps added later to the demo are just a really good example of how John and Paul filled in the blanks on each others work to get that amazing combined sound.
@aidenmcnatt61139 ай бұрын
@@adude8046 yeah but it still would have been nice to hear what would of happened if John had not died
@josiahcole31869 ай бұрын
recordings like this make me wonder what classics he would've written that are as huge as imagine had he lived
@martinefrancoise64194 ай бұрын
Love this song so much❤
@user-ks5df9vf4r8 ай бұрын
enamorado de la suavidad de esta canción, gracias Lennon
@Youngyoungsam0039 ай бұрын
Beautiful
@best-movieclips Жыл бұрын
Lennon recorded this demo in 77'
@LeoMercatore10 ай бұрын
No, in 3’ or 4’
@DIEGOACOSTA-yy2dl8 ай бұрын
Temazo por dónde lo oiga, la otra versión tambn es espectacular ❤
@mcfcxx9849 Жыл бұрын
Love these remasters, any plans on doing Real Love?
@mcfcxx984911 ай бұрын
@@youtubecontributions5328 Looking forward to it
@raymond5001 Жыл бұрын
Very nice song salute 7
@owenklein1917 Жыл бұрын
Wow this Is first time I’ve ever heard this. I love the piano part
@Retrograde.Amnesiac10 ай бұрын
Beautiful..
@DJ-bj8ku Жыл бұрын
I can hear Julian in this.
@donmcallister37454 ай бұрын
Simply hearing a working demo… of John’s makes it even more tragic… that he is gone… All the work that could have been written… if this scratches the surface at just a hint… I’m grateful for what he gave us… I just miss the possibility of what a fifty and sixty year old John would have had to say… about himself and our future and world… his observations. I miss that… voice 🌻💐🌻 🌜🌞🌛
@evamendenhall61269 ай бұрын
❤ i can't describe how i feel.
@claudia544610 ай бұрын
Freedom is a path we choose. Most of the times is a rocky mountain so hard to climb. At the end life is rewarding us with the best view we could have. It could be the view of the sea or a green field. Whatever it is this is pure and endless happiness.
@gui-dd6ur10 ай бұрын
Amazing
@fortinrose18 ай бұрын
Love you John ❤
@peabody30008 ай бұрын
i'm in awe of what the beatles did with this
@maxmir37937 ай бұрын
What can I say: you listen to a well-known modern classic
@josephpalen71499 ай бұрын
Great shot!
@HenryTozer9 ай бұрын
Wow. It’s amazing hearing this so clearly. Great job… will come back to this. (also I’ve recorded a piano version of John’s original demo of Now And Then for fellow Beatle fans 🤍🌍)
@elianabessicolombo398410 ай бұрын
Lindo! 👏👏👏🎂😥
@CAAB19769 ай бұрын
lennon = genius
@user-ys1zc3gp9s5 ай бұрын
I wish I was a bird!
@ZaBucci-19125 ай бұрын
omaiga
@gardenbrewing44789 ай бұрын
This is just so so so gorgeous 🥹
@sisterannhasna6338 ай бұрын
For me.. This song is the last one...before he passed away 😢
@FBAV10 ай бұрын
Happy 83th Birthday dear Mr Lennono
@Elo94Tl6 ай бұрын
thanks
@MacBratt Жыл бұрын
I always seem to prefer the original demo's iso what 'the Beatles' made of it.
@knockedoutloaded279 Жыл бұрын
R hope they imp sound on all John's final demos...
@lorenapasquetti862710 ай бұрын
Genio ❤❤❤❤ ci manca tanto ❤❤❤❤❤
@erickdelacruz49789 ай бұрын
❤
@leoman5946 Жыл бұрын
John 😢😢😢😢
@aradiobox Жыл бұрын
Great job
@knockedoutloaded279 Жыл бұрын
Now and Then has paul and ringo singing on it...hope its brilliant
@awii17549 ай бұрын
Please Real Love
@jb2009200911 ай бұрын
Awesome!!
@moobutt10 ай бұрын
Amazing. But I was really waiting for George’s solo in there.
@softshallow74359 ай бұрын
Have you all not heard that they already done this demo in 1995 and was released as a single. Watch the music video on youtube.
@melrip64687 ай бұрын
Que dulce por favor....❤❤❤❤
@jeanmermoud615710 ай бұрын
🦋
@LetsGoThere9 ай бұрын
I was lucky enough to get to play a piano owned by Lennon. It was in a Hoboken NJ studio and the owner let me play it for like 5 seconds. Ha Ha!
@acerjuglans3839 ай бұрын
I like Jeff Lynne, but he never should've produced Free As A Bird for the Anthology. It sounded more like his song than a Beatles song.
@nl58289 ай бұрын
as much as i love the beatles’ version of this song, this demo version is even better. if the lyrics were completed and the song was released when john lennon was alive, i can’t help thinking this song would have been regarded as a classic, on a par with imagine. sadly wasn’t to be 😞😞😞
@lucacello10 ай бұрын
That's Real Last Song by Beatles
@smsoarescunha46889 ай бұрын
❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
@quackk_kk9 ай бұрын
Why John didn't put those on double fantasy i will never know, it's such a beautiful little song, much better than most of DF imo
@davidvasquez86585 ай бұрын
Better than Yokos stuff (sorry)
@yascanzi3380 Жыл бұрын
sadness
@johnmc3862 Жыл бұрын
‘Now and then’ is sadder.
@makarypaul98319 ай бұрын
Royalty
@fehl59310 ай бұрын
Haunting yet biblical.
@multiversogeek1429 ай бұрын
It's not biblical
@patatoa9 ай бұрын
Wish they'd straight up re-do it
@sebastianfitzptraick73959 ай бұрын
Not sure why the remaining Beatles felt the need to finish John’s songs for him. The demos are still my favourite versions.
@cosmiccollectiblesent10 ай бұрын
Isolate the vocals to clean even further, redo the piano note for note and with the exact timing and you have the penultimate version of this song.
@skoto82199 ай бұрын
What does your day-to-day life consist of such that you end up with this kind of posture at age 37, in 1977?
@skoto82199 ай бұрын
Rather lovely song though
@gabrielmoreno94559 ай бұрын
Livre... como um pássaro. É a melhor próxima coisa a ser. Livre como um pássaro. Ah, ah, ah... em casa e seco. Como um pássaro indo para a casa eu voo. Como uma pássaro em asas...
@magalirobinson93558 ай бұрын
:)!
@anialopatiuk24676 ай бұрын
❤😂
@user-gt6ug2lq1k4 ай бұрын
最後にあの建物は何かな❔と😢😢😢 もしかしたら🎵
@TanMan16 Жыл бұрын
Nah I love this tho
@nevermore19639 ай бұрын
😮😮😮😮
@kenabelson45549 ай бұрын
Give us Peter Jackson's software! Make it open source. What a wonderful world it would be!
@Mx6xt_9 ай бұрын
I remember my ex who I met at music college, she said the Beatles are overrated. Some people just don’t get it do they. Beatles? Overrated? They don’t go in the same sentence.
@nl58289 ай бұрын
i understand why she is you ex! 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 (sorry, too soon?)
@nevermore19639 ай бұрын
אני בוכה בהיסטריה. קולו האישי נוגע באינטימיות של הנשמה. כאילו ג'ון כאן כחלק ממני. ככה זה היה צריך לצאת לאור. מניחה שג'ף לין עיבד את זה יותר מדי. אין לי מילים אני המומה.❤
@PastnPixel3 ай бұрын
i feel his demo kinda better, it's more raw just John's voice and his piano