A Better Now and Then Video

 

Much, MUCH better.

That AI program is very impressive. The "Free as a Bird" and "Real Love" tracks had the exact same problem with Lennon's voice quality, I wonder if they'll revisit those. Doesn't sound like it but seems like they should.

New Beatles Single to be Released November 2

 Travel back with me to the mid-nineties. The (remaining) Beatles announced that they would release 3 double albums of outtakes and demos/unreleased songs. In addition to that, each double album would contain one "new Beatles" song - using vocals from John Lennon's private collection of unreleased songs, the other 3 Beatles would go into the studio together and make them into proper tracks.

The first Anthology had the new song "Free as a Bird." The second Anthology had "Real Love." And then the third Anthology didn't have a song.

Word on the street, back then, was that George Harrison was unhappy with the quality of the entire project and nixed it so as to stop the bleeding.

But now 27 years after the release of Anthology 3 (which was 26 years after their last album) the third song "Now and Then" will be released November 2.

Nothing to do with the fact that George has died, the clarified (or revised) history is that George wasn't unhappy with the quality of the songs but with the quality of the production. That is, the band was using old, low-quality tapes from Lennon and there was no technology to separate the original recording into tracks or get rid of hissing or noise. Now that AI is available that can clean these things up, the track can be properly engineered and released.