Now And Then, The Love Is Real And Free As A Bird


 


All my little plans and schemes
Lost like some forgotten dreams
Seems that all I really was doing
Was waiting for you…

         "Real Love," The Beatles

 

           The Beatles (a band—the GOAT when it came to melodies and harmonies—inactive for more than five decades now and with two members already deceased) released another single, “Now And Then.” The song is actually an unfinished material by John (like “Free As A Bird” and “Real Love”) which Paul, George and Ringo tried to complete in the `90s, a task they failed because of the limited technology then. They couldn’t remove the terrible hissing sound that overpowered John’s demo. George died in 2001, but the interest on “Now And Then” was resurrected because of the emergence of AI.

AI helped them isolate John’s vocals from the "Now And Then" demo and trash the unwanted noises, and then Paul played bass and guitars on it and Ringo played drums while an orchestra contributed additional music to the song—and the presumably last Beatles song was released and is on its way to being the number one song on the planet right now.

Of the three John Lennon incomplete songs that the remaining Beatles finished and released as records, “Real Love” is my favorite, a song about a man assuring his beloved that his love for her is real and that she doesn't need to be afraid to tell him that the feeling is mutual. “Free As A Bird” and “Now And Then” are also great, of course. But “Real Love,” for me, is the most Beatlesque song of the three. “Now And Then” ultimately sounds like a John Lennon solo, a song that adores Yoko.

After the band’s breakup, all John Lennon mostly did, it seems, was write songs for Yoko Ono.

No doubt about it, his love for her was real.

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