Now and Then is among the remaining 15 per cent of Beatles’ songs that move between major-key and minor-key sections, alongside We Can Work It Out or Girl. Lennon’s verse for Now and Then is among the ...

Lennon’s voice was excavated from the tape and used as a core around which McCartney and Starr could rebuild Now and Then in the present, with added overdubs and guitar tracks by Harrison unearthed ...

Now and Then began as a demo by John Lennon recorded on cassette tape in 1977. It was considered for The Beatles’ Anthology project in 1995, but was passed over at that time for Free As a Bird ...

Titled “Now and Then,” the almost impossible-to-believe track is four minutes and eight seconds of the first and only original Beatles recording of the 21st century.