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New Beatles Song Released

PickyPicky3 — Thu, 02 Nov 2023 16:46:41 GMT

"Now and Then" Produced via AI. It's okay, might grow on me. Video will be released tomorrow.

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Kitty Galore — Thu, 02 Nov 2023 17:26:15 GMT

@PickyPicky3 wrote:
"Now and Then" Produced via AI. It's okay, might grow on me. Video will be released tomorrow.

@PickyPicky3 @I'll be checking it out !

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Witchy Woman — Fri, 03 Nov 2023 13:23:05 GMT

@PickyPicky3

I heard it earlier today and need to hear it again.

My first impression was that it was OK, but not remarkable. However, the emotion I felt listening to it was considerable.

I grew up with them, saw them in 1966 and have many albums. Not a rabid fan, but it brings back many good memories from long ago.

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LTT1 — Thu, 02 Nov 2023 18:49:10 GMT

@Witchy Woman

I would have DIED AND GONE TO HEAVEN if I could have ever see "The Beatles" in person!

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beckyb1012 — Thu, 02 Nov 2023 18:55:14 GMT

Our local Radio DJ mentioned yesterday on his show he was in a local store and mentioned the Beatles while checking out. The Gen Z employee said "Oh I just recently learned about them!"

Last summer my DDIL went to a bakery to have an Elvis Presley birthday cake made since that is what my GD wanted. The young woman working there asked her "Who is that?" I was like NOOOOOOOOOO. Beatles and Elvis everyone should always know unitl the end of time who they were.

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frankenfinch — Thu, 02 Nov 2023 23:14:09 GMT

This song sounds like it should be on Lennon's 'Double Fantasy' album and not a Beatles song, per se.

I'd love to know @Pearlee what your thoughts are re this song?

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Kitty Galore — Thu, 02 Nov 2023 23:39:04 GMT

@frankenfinch wrote:
This song sounds like it should be on Lennon's 'Double Fantasy' album and not a Beatles song, per se.

I'd love to know @Pearlee what your thoughts are re this song?

@frankenfinch I agree with you , listened to it earlier . It sounds like it should be on the Double Fantasy album. Yes wonder what @Pearlee thinks of it 🤔

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Kitty Galore — Thu, 02 Nov 2023 23:43:56 GMT

@Witchy Woman wrote:
@PickyPicky3

I heard it earlier today and need to hear it again.

My first impression was that it was OK, but not remarkable. However, the emotion I felt listening to it was considerable.

I grew up with them, saw them in 1964 and have many albums. Not a rabid fan, but it brings back many good memories from long ago.

@Witchy Woman I can't imagine how fantastic a memory to have seen the Beatles !! I've seen Paul McCartney several times in concert going back to 1975 the first time and was beyond thrilled very one of those times ! It was like I was in a dream , was surreal ! Seeing the Beatles though ....Wow!

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Witchy Woman — Fri, 03 Nov 2023 10:54:26 GMT

@Kitty Galore

@LTT1

Yes, it was amazing to have been in Busch Stadium in August of 1966 to see them on one of their few stops in the US.

My memory keeps saying it was 64, but in checking the info, I see it was 1966. Still a long time ago

I was 15. It was very hot and raining. No one cared

My older sis got the tickets, but cannot remember the details of how she got them. Not my ticket, but found this image. Look at the price!

We couldn't see or hear them very well. It was madness all around us. It was over in a flash and they exited the stadium very near where we sat. I could see their faces and stopped breathing for a few seconds as they waved to the crowd.

Here is a link to the story about that visit:

The Beatles concert at Busch Stadium in St. Louis on Aug 21, 1966 (the-paulmccartney-project.com)

So, while the song didn't measure up to my memories, it still left an imprint of those 4 young, sweet-faced musicians I so loved at that age.

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LTT1 — Fri, 03 Nov 2023 11:16:24 GMT

@Witchy Woman

Thank you for sharing about your terrific experience!

Yes...I looked for the price almost right away! WOW

My first experience was when the Beatles performed on "The Ed Sullivan" show in 1964! I was staying with family friends whose parents were friends of my parents. They had two children, a girl and a boy, approximately my age one year older and one year younger!

I remember those two saying "we're going to watch "The Beatles" on Ed Sullivan and can't wait!"
I remember being clueless about it all ... until I "caught" their enthusiasm and that of the audience too!

I remember that time in the US as being thrilling!

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Magicrat — Fri, 03 Nov 2023 12:11:37 GMT

I've been a fan since 1963. Saw them together live twice. I've seen Paul several times, George, once, and Ringo a few times. John with the Plastic Ono Band. The song is ok, at best. It's no "Imagine". But what is?

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Boehm Collector — Fri, 03 Nov 2023 12:19:17 GMT

I just listened to it now. It's okay.

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Judaline — Fri, 03 Nov 2023 12:33:41 GMT

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AW55J2zE3N4

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buyornot — Fri, 03 Nov 2023 13:25:41 GMT

@PickyPicky3 wrote:
"Now and Then" Produced via AI. It's okay, might grow on me. Video will be released tomorrow.

I agree, it will grow on us-made me think of Paul missing Linda-they were married almost 30 years and I remember him calling her "his girlfriend" on Oprah

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PilatesLover — Fri, 03 Nov 2023 13:58:00 GMT

It gave me the creeps.

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FLgardener — Fri, 03 Nov 2023 14:52:26 GMT

I think it was a totally unnecessary endeavor.

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haddon9 — Fri, 03 Nov 2023 14:20:03 GMT

@LTT1 wrote:
@Witchy Woman

I would have DIED AND GONE TO HEAVEN if I could have ever see "The Beatles" in person!

@LTT1 Me too! However I did see Paul a few times and Goerge once.

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Witchy Woman — Fri, 03 Nov 2023 16:31:34 GMT

@haddon9

While it is a wonderful memory for me, I must admit to barely "seeing" them since they were out in the middle of a huge statium...and it was raining that night. Everyone drenched and miserable. A few had binoculars (not me).

The audience was screaming so loud, you could only hear bits and pieces of music. No big TVs in 1966 and inadequate sound systems. Like a weak, static-filled radio.

However, for a girl of 15 and thousands of other young girls, we were happy to just breathe their air for a little while.

My sis and I Iaugh now and say it could have been anyone out there and we would never have known. However, as I mentioned I did "see" them as they left the stadium and can confirm it was the real thing.

I never saw any of them in person again.

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cornicopia — Sat, 04 Nov 2023 22:57:10 GMT

I like the song. I miss The Beatle sound,

so this brings one more to enjoy!

Now and then I miss many people who have passed on in my life. And this song says what I feel.

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Pearlee — Sun, 05 Nov 2023 00:21:44 GMT

I don't like the song, and I really don't like the official video. I read Paul saying John would have wanted them to do this, but I disagree. It was from a demo and clearly nowhere near the caliber of outstanding Beatles songs. They should have let John R.I.P. with our memories of his fantastic songs i.e. In My Life, Imagine, etc. I don't want the Beatles final song to be a mediocre, just OK one. Truth be told, I don't think it sounded much like John, and not a whole lot like the Beatles either.

And I really don't like the video, which I think IS creepy. Today's Paul singing with Sgt Pepper's Paul and two dead Beatles gives me the Heebie Jeebies. Although I admit I cried through the whole thing, thinking of watching The Beatles in the '60s. And the ending where they took a bow in their matching suits made me lose it altogether. 😭 Oh those were joy-filled days watching and listening to the Fab Four. But time -- decades -- have passed and we can't turn back time, as this effort tried to do.

For me the last Beatles song will always be the one Paul ended his concerts with the 3X I saw him in person. "And in the end, the love you take, is equal to the love you make." Well sung, and a fitting end of an era. Let deceased Beatles R.I.P. There will never be another group like them, including Beatles resurrected by technology.

ETA: One more thing. Back in the 60s the Beatles gave a lot of really good Lennon-McCartney written songs to other artists to record because Paul and John thought they weren't good enough to be Beatles songs. One I can think of is I'll Be On My Way recorded by Billy J. Kramer I think, who was also under contract with EMI. Paul gave Peter Asher A World Without Love to record as Peter and Gordon. Those songs were far superior to Now and Then. This song would never have made the cut back then as a Beatles song!