There is a moment in the "making of" video for the Beatles' new single, "Now and Then" that gave me goosebumps. After hearing some of John Lennon's original cassette demo, we hear Lennon's voice, isolated and extracted by Peter Jackson's magic new audio technology. It stunned me. I've known about this tech for a while now, but to hear it, and to hear just how well it works, was a revelation.
As for the song itself, it's pretty enough and Giles Martin and the remaining two Beatles have done a fine job of recreating what probably would have been a B-side from one of the later albums had John written it a few years earlier. That being said, it still made me weep at the end, not because it's such a work of musical genius, but for what might have been and what we've lost.
The Beatles - Now And Then - The Last Beatles Song (Short Film)
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