You take the fourth Lennon homemade cassette recording given to “The Threetles” by Yoko Ono, “Now and Then,” in 1994. Yes, the song that the three worked on for just one day in 1995, adding try-out guitars and vocals and drums. The one they discarded because the original tape h...
Giles Martin, who co-produced “Now And Then” with Paul McCartney, is fully aware of the emotional and cultural significance surrounding the release. As Beatles aficionados have long known,John Lennonmade a piano-and-vocal demo recording of the song in the mid-to-late 1970s on cassette, la...
And so, they were able to isolate Lennon’s voice from the original cassette and complete “Now and Then” using machine learning. When the song was first announced in June, McCartney described artificial intelligence technology as “kind of scary but exciting,” adding: “We will just have...
mythologised John Lennon demo was first worked on in February 1995 by Paul, George and Ringo as part of The Beatles Anthology project but it remained unfinished, partly because of the impossible technological challenges involved in working with the vocal John had recorded on tape in the 1970s....
“Now and Then” and was recorded circa 1979 in Lennon’s New York City apartment. In 1994 and ’95, McCartney, Harrison, and Starr convened with producer Jeff Lynne to tackle four songs thatYoko Onohad included on a cassette she first offered to Harrison and then passed on to McCartney...
The group had finished recording “Free Bird” and “Real Love” using the other tracks Yoko had provided, and it was time to move onto “Now And Then.” That’s when the problems began. The cassette tape was recorded in John’s NYC apartment, not a recording studio. This meant the ...
Then, it was cassette tapes and record players. Now, streaming services have every song at our fingertips. But sometimes, I find myself searching for that old mix tape, just to relive those moments. So, here's to the then and the now. Both have their charm, their unique beauty. I ...
but exciting because it’s the future. And we were able to use that kind of thing when Peter Jackson did the filmGet Back, where it was us making theLet It Bealbum. And he was able to extricate John’s voice from a ropey little bit of cassette that had John’s voice and a piano...
Eight players can connect via a shared code (even across different platforms) to play together in Online Mode as you all progress through the story ofCassette Beasts– even if you’re in wildly different places! You can follow along with everyone’s progress by watching them on the world map...
Underlying these conversations and observations was a sense of why (on a micro level) the use of tape as a format for releasing music was residually popular amongst independent musicians in the city where I live (Edinburgh) and where I often travel for gigs (Glasgow)....