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THE MUSIC VIDEO
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@jimmix said in Paul McCartney Says He Used AI to Produce a “Final” Beatles Song:
THE MUSIC VIDEO
Was just gonna post this! Such a cool video!
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What George really thought of Now & Then...
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@oobu24 It was reported yesterday that Pete Best contributed film footage never before seen.
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That video had me feeling something. Definitely hit some emotions.
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@jimmix I wonder which part?
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@oobu24 An 8mm film of John, Paul and George in their leather jackets performing on stage. Less than 10 seconds.
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@oobu24 said in Paul McCartney Says He Used AI to Produce a “Final” Beatles Song:
@jimmix I wonder which part?
Roag Best bought a one minute silent film of them performing in their leathers at a local gig. It's the earliest footage there is, it was publicised last year i think. Roag said they'll be using about 8 seconds of it.
As for the song - love it, cried like mad yesterday, to me it was my mum... she died in June after a horrendous 4 months on end of life care on oxygen in her front room with me and my sister as her carers... It's been a horrible year. And hearing this song with those words, oh boy it was all about mum to me..
Today with the video with it made it less sad - i think Paul looks absoutely gorgeous, but i'll admit on first viewing i did not like at all all the badly edited in footage of John larking about, on repeated views i can take it (!), but first viewing it was jarring... more so than George's footage, prob because there was so much of John, and the Hello Goodbye video shoot never looked like John in the first place (huge eyebrows!). I might be in the minority!
I find it hard to take in that the gap between now and the anthology is bigger than the gap was between teh anthology and 1970... add that 60 years ago tomorrow was the royal variety gig with the rattle your jewelry comment and the first use of the word "beatlemania" by the press... and here we are, 60 years on, Paul and Ringo still doing music and a new Beatles song being out. Brings me to tears. Plus my dad would've been 80 tomorrow. And i want my mum back so much i still cry all the time.
Happy my little boy (not so little now - he's just turned 7!) has a Beatles song released in hs lifetime, he loves it btw and already sings along.
We both love Paul's little wink half way through.
Enough of me waffling. Just a lovely song, moving, emotional, i wish my mum knew it was out and what it makes us feel... such love.
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@eeee-cor-blimey George looks tall and narrow in one scene taken from the casual look of the "Hello Goodbye" video.
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The Beatles Return for One More Masterpiece With New Song ‘Now and Then'
Masterpiece???? Well now, thank you!
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When I look at this video over 165 thousand trillion times, this is the attitude of John and George. As a matter of fact, George would've made fun of their new music video by incorporating the images from the casual scenes in the "Hello Goodbye" video. So, if anyone hates it and rather honor the dead, you just tick off George again.
John conducting the orchestra in his dancing! That's how you do it! Eat your heart out, Taylor Swift!
Those are the memories that set aside the disagreements that gave use the creations. I mean, no wonder why the band disbanded. Ringo wanted the Steven Tyler mic (looks like an old Pyle mic) and Paul wanted a recording mic.
"Laugh"
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@yankeefan2 said in Paul McCartney Says He Used AI to Produce a “Final” Beatles Song:
It seems it really was a "labor of love" for Paul & Ringo to finish this song. John sounds great and I really liked the song more than I ever expected I would. The title of this song is just freaking perfect for their "last" song. BTW - during the Anthology did you notice the drum set had "Suzy and the Red Stripes" on it - thought that was interesting. The reviews I have read have been for the most part quite positive.
I noticed the drum head!
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George could be a real curmudgeon at times, but if he had not killed himself smoking cigarettes, maybe he’d have mellowed by 80 and would have loved the song. Unfortunately we’ll never know. Quite sure John would have been ecstatic!
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@njr Yeah. Ringo wants that returned. In exchanged for Paul's missing bass.
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The video chokes me up for sure. After a few listens to the song, I've come to understand that this record is a love letter from Paul and Ringo to John and George, and to the whole era of The Beatles. It's John singing, :And if I make it through/It's all because of you ... I miss you," but it's also Paul and Ringo, knowing they too are nearing the end of their lives, saying this to their fallen comrades.
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Oh, and in its first day, "Now and Then" made its first impression on the rock airplay chart, per Billboard.
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I love this song. I have been absorbing and digesting it for the last couple of days. The video (is that what we still call it?) is brilliant, a masterpiece from Peter Jackon. I do wish they could've salvaged the "I Don't Want to Lose You" bit. I read they couldn't use it? Or maybe it was a conscious decision? I don't know. And I'd have liked Ringo to dress up a bit better! (LOL)...... but... it's a very emotional song. A winner.... If it was around in the Beatles days, I don't see it being released as a single, but it would've comfortably made its way onto a later album... which is high praise.... I've got it on high rotation (even though I don't have a record player), as we speak!... The critics seem a bit divided (nothing new there), but from watching You Tube "reactions", the majority of fans love it!
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IMO some critics are holding it up to their high Beatle standard and that is fine because after all they are critics. I look at it as a very lovely song with a heartfelt sentiment. Thanks to technology they were able to use a demo recording over 40 years old and put together this song. I said in another post I was not expecting much and when I heard it, I changed my mind. The video is sad in a way (George and John are gone) and funny. Once again, kudos to Paul, Ringo and Giles Martin for their work on the "Final" Beatle song.
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Something I haven't seen remarked on (though maybe I've just missed it): The cassette with John's demo of "Now and Then" was in an envelope he'd marked, "For Paul." We'll never know what John was thinking when he wrote the sone, but it certainly could certainly be taken as a message to Paul. Given that it was written at a time when they were getting along better after a few difficult years, that intuitively makes sense.
Now imagine you're Paul McCartney. After being traumatized by your close friend's death and having written a song, "Here Today," that was in essence a deeply personal letter to John, a dozen years later you hear John's voice from beyond the grave singing astonishingly similar sentiments, apparently addressed to you. I don't know about you, but if I were Paul I think I'd have cried for a week.
No wonder he was so determined to get this out into the world.
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I really do like the song and video! I'm so glad we were finally able to see a proper release of this song after all these years.