Paul McCartney uncorked the stay debut of what has been billed because the “last” Beatles music, 2023’s “Now and Then,” throughout the marathon kick-off of the South American leg of his Obtained Again tour in Montevideo, Uruguay on Tuesday (Oct. 1). Sitting at a piano because the AI-assisted Peter Jackson-directed video for the music unspooled behind him, McCartney, 82, crooned the melancholy ballad whose wistful refrain discovered him singing, “Every now and then/ I miss you/ Oh, from time to time/ I would like you to be there for me/ All the time to return to me.”
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“Now and Then” debuted at No. 7 on the Billboard Scorching 100 chart in Nov. 2023, marking the group’s historic thirty fifth prime 10 entry. The music was billed because the last-ever music by the group that cut up in 1970. It was first recorded as a demo in 1977 by late singer/guitarist John Lennon and was initially slated to look on one of many editions of the band’s Anthology sequence earlier than being shelved as a result of poor high quality of the unique recording.
It was revived by surviving members McCartney and drummer Ringo Starr after new expertise allowed them to extract Lennon’s unique vocals, which have been paired with late guitarist/singer George Harrison’s guitar components from the primary cross at ending the monitor in 1995. Producers cleaned up Lennon’s vocals utilizing AI expertise employed by Jackson for the 2021 The Beatles: Get Again documentary.
Jackson’s accompanying video additionally used expertise to just about “reunite” the band and depict a current-day McCartney laying down his vocals and showing to stare at a ghostly Lennon picture, in addition to pictures of all 4 band members performing the music collectively.
Based on Setlist.fm, McCartney’s sprawling 37-song, practically three-hour setlist at Estadio Centenario on Tuesday together with a mixture of Beatles classics (“A Exhausting Day’s Evening,” “Getting Higher,” “Blackbird,” “One thing,” “Helter Skelter”) and Wings songs (“Junior’s Farm,” “Let Me Roll It,” “Let ‘Em In,” “Jet”).
Watch a fan video of the “Now and Then” efficiency under.
