The Legend of the Last Beatles Song
Giles Martin, who co-produced “Now and Then” with Paul McCartney, talks to TIDAL about how the historic new track came together — and what John Lennon is expressing through it.
“When you’re working on something like this, you can’t think of the scale,” the producer Giles Martin says with equal parts affability and awe in his voice. “If you do, you’d be like a rabbit in headlights and be constrained by what you’re doing.”
When Martin uses the term “scale,” he’s alluding to a project of towering importance and poignancy — a kind of musical fantasy made real for countless rock and pop fans. As we speak, the powers that be at Apple Records and Universal Music, alongside the musical Rushmorian figures of Sir Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr, are gearing up to release what is being considered the last-ever new Beatles song. Ruminated on, rumored about and salivated over for years, the track dubbed “Now and Then,” out Nov. 2, marks the final chapter of a musical legacy that began all those many years ago: a journey from the Cavern Club to The Ed Sullivan Show, down Abbey Road and on to global cultural impact that doesn’t cease.
Source: Rob LeDonne/tidal.com
