John and Mal

Listening to this song, “cleansed” by artificial intelligence, you feel dumb delight - as if Lennon sings in the same room with us

Now and that had not yet had time to go out, and she was already surrounded by a thick crowd of rumors, opinions, versions and the most thick hype.

• This is a dying thing Lennon! No, he recorded it in 1977, three years before his death. In the summer of 1980, he worked on the Double Fantasy album-this is his latest notes.

• This is the last thing The Beatles! Indeed, on The Beatles, it is called - The Last Beatles Song. But we will not give out what we want. This is not a thing The Beatles, this is a thing of John Lennon, who left England to America and did not want to return to the group. For him, it was a finished story.

• And of course, artificial intelligence! The word of the day, the concept of the year, without it! With his help, this thing was recorded, and maybe AI - its main creator. Is it so, you won’t analyze thousands of votes in the noise. In fact, in now and the teen there is not a single artificial, synthesized sound, everything is played and in a way of people. Artificial intelligence only helped clear the initial record.

The exact date of the record is unknown. One day of 1977, John Lennon in his apartment in the Dakota house in New York sat behind the piano and recorded this thing on an ordinary cassette. It was a raw record, he himself knew this and therefore did not take the thing on Double Fantasy. In 1994, Yoko, it handed over to the Paul McCartney to the Cassette. McCartney, Harrison, Starr and Jeff Lynn from Electric Light Orchestra tried for some time in the studio, but nothing came of it: nothing:

They could not remove the voice of Lennon from the magnetic film, they could not cleanse him of the sounds of the piano and the constant buzz of unknown origin.

This is probably a refrigerator in the apartment of Lennon - another genuine, albeit an nameless participant in the recording.

That which failed in 1995 was able to take place in 2023 with the help of the MAL program, named after Mel Evans, the old friend of The Beatles, who, since the first concerts at the Cavern club, has been their amateur guard and road manager. In 1976, Evans was shot dead by the London police officer after he himself threatened a police weapon in a state of narcotic trip. Soft -fisherman Mal subtly shared the voice of Lennon and the sounds of the piano, and also managed to take out a voice from the surrounding the buzz of the refrigerator.

McCartney and Starr received the voice of Lennon in his amazing, amazing and even stupefying purity.

When you listen to him, it seems that John is in the same room with us.

They added Harrison’s guitar to Lennon, recorded in 1995, when they tried to make Now and Theen, but failed. They were more tormented then than they did. Lynn, who worked with them, is an outstanding musician, about whom Lennon said that “it became impossible to compose music, Jeff Lynn composed it all,” recalled that in his whole life he had no more difficult work than continuously listening to the old cassette with the voice of Lennon. In history, there was also the swearing of Harrison, who did not see the Lennon structure necessary for the song, and in general he did not like it, and therefore he said: “Fucking Rubbish”.

Now George, who is already not 22 years old, has returned to Lennon’s thing with his guitar solo, recorded almost 30 years ago.

McCartney played on the bass, on solo guitar, on the piano, ringo-on drums.

Jill Martin, the son of George Martin, the producer of all the records The Beatles, except for Let it be, conducted the string orchestra during a recording in Los Angeles. The musicians did not know that they were involved in the recording of Now and the.

So ordinary for modern musical production, but in fact, this thing arose in a strange way, connecting two Beatles in heaven with two, which are on earth.

This thing is not a novelty. Now and that performed by Lennon, who was sitting behind the piano in his apartment in the Dakota house, next to which he will be killed in three years, went out on boots.

There is so much loneliness and longing in Lennon's entry. It was a time when he left everywhere - from music, from newspaper noise, from publicity, he went into the silence of his large apartment, which he went barefoot and sometimes sat down at the piano.

He left England, as from the past, to America as a new life. He walked in New York for bars, clubs and concerts, listened to some boys who enjoyed disco, laughed, rejoiced and actually did not know what to do with himself. He fed Sin’s son, showed him cartoons (but necessarily without advertising), called himself a “housewife”, made collages and said in surprise to himself that yes, you could live without music, without rock and roll, without recording albums. In these years, he also left Yoko, too, with a giant jump across America, from New York to Los Angeles, with a young May Pang. And he returned. All this was frank restlessness, a long time between, the inability to be together and the inability to part forever.

He sang about this, picking up words in unfinished, incomplete lines, sang, sitting behind the piano in his apartment on the sixth floor of Dakota, in the morning light of the day from the windows extending to the central park, under the cozy buzz of the refrigerator, feeling the void of the apartment and the emptiness of life.

McCartney and Starr carefully took his voice cut out of the old magnetic film, and transferred him to us here. They surrounded him with the sound of their instruments, the lapidar and deep Beatle sound that cannot be told and described, because this is music. You can only listen to Now and Then, released in the era of computers and artificial intelligence, to feel dumb enthusiasm - almost happiness - from how much human soul and human skill in this music.