Watch Paul McCartney Debut ‘New’ Beatles Song ‘Now and Then’ in Concert
Macca played his first show of 2024 at Estadio Centenario in Montevideo, Uruguay. He’ll spend the next two months gigging all across South America, Central America, Mexico and Europe
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Paul McCartney played his first concert of 2024 on Tuesday night at Estadio Centenario in Montevideo, Uruguay. He kept largely to the script from last year until the midway point when he performed “Now and Then” for the first time.
John Lennon captured the wistful piano ballad “Now and Then” on a tape recorder at his New York apartment building in 1977. Yoko Ono gave the tape to the surviving Beatles in 1994, along with “Free as a Bird” and “Real Love,” for inclusion on the Beatles Anthology box sets. They attempted to flesh all three songs out into new Beatles songs, but they abandoned “Now and Then” because the audio quality of the Lennon demo was simply too poor.They didn’t return to it until 2022 when new technology that Peter Jackson’s team developed for the Get Back movie project allowed them to remove the hiss and isolate Lennon’s vocals. Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr recorded new drums and vocals for the song, and they flowed in guitar parts that George Harrison laid down in 1995.
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