Following its debut on-line yesterday, the Beatles have launched the accompanying music video for “Now and Then,” billed as “The Last Beatles Song” and created utilizing new know-how to marry new work by surviving members Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr with an outdated demo recorded by John Lennon, plus recordings by the late George Harrison from the interval of The Beatles Anthology in the Nineteen Nineties. Paul, George, and Ringo had beforehand tried to complete “Now and Then” however at the moment it was decided that the authentic demo was too tough to make use of.
Decades later, a software program pioneered by Peter Jackson and his crew whereas making the documentary collection The Beatles: Get Back was employed to isolate Lennon’s vocal observe on the demo, and to wash it as much as the level that it may work. Fittingly, Jackson then directed the music video for the completed “Now and Then.”
Appropriately, I suppose, given the manner the music was solely attainable via know-how, varied digital methods had been used to mix new footage of Paul and Ringo with archival photos of John and George, plus outdated footage of all the members. At least in idea, it’s the visible equal of the music. In execution, nicely, see for your self…
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In a press release, Jackson stated he was initially “reluctant” to make the video, in half as a result of “just thinking about the responsibility of having to make a music video worthy of the last song The Beatles will ever release produced a collection of anxieties almost too overwhelming to deal with.”
He added:
I informed Apple how the lack of appropriate footage apprehensive me. We’d want to make use of loads of uncommon and unseen movie, however there’s little or no … Nothing in any respect appeared to exist exhibiting Paul, George and Ringo engaged on Now And Then in 1995 … There’s not a lot footage of John in the mid-seventies when he wrote the demo … I grizzled about the lack of unseen Beatles footage from the ’60s … And they didn’t even shoot any footage exhibiting Paul and Ringo engaged on the music final yr.A Beatles music video will need to have nice Beatles footage at its core.
Jackson says he by no means technically stated sure, however he additionally by no means stated no, and quickly was “swept along as they quickly addressed my concerns.” McCartney and Starr recorded themselves performing the music, whereas Apple discovered 14 hours of “long forgotten film” of the 1995 Beatles Anthology periods, together with footage of Paul, George, and Ringo working collectively on “Now and Then.” And … right here we’re.
What do you assume? Again, I perceive the idea and assume it does work on that degree with the music. In follow, simply as I’m when individuals do that trick in motion pictures, photos of useless individuals being inserted into new footage at all times strikes me as just a little … creepy. Maybe that’s simply me…
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