Even music-snobs I know who detest the Beatles have good things to say about both George Harrison and his tunes! Really like his music even if there's nothing special about it! (This Song)
Thank you for the very Fab video! The first time I heard the song it bowled me over completely! I approached it without the video, just the tune. It just struck me like I'd always known it and now finally here it was!! I've never gotten so emotional over a song that I had no connection with ever.. Within seconds I had tears streaming down the sides of my face! My wife was like, yeah, yeah the Beatles and then she looked at me and actually got worried cause it was so far out of my character! I had guitar in hand after the second playing and it just.. I don't know, I didn't have to try and learn it, the song moved my hands into the chords! I'm 56 years old, been playing since 5 and NEVER had that happen!!! Everything about the Beatles was and is meant to be. A truly blessed band that continues to inspire, entertain and amaze!
Personally I don't believe in things divine, but the Beatles came close enough for me. It has to be the biggest coincidence of my lifetime that there existed these four people who happened to have these certain unique talents, different from everyone else's talents, they lived in the same time and place, and they came to know each other and formed a band. It turned out that when the unique talents and personalities of each were combined (and ONLY when all four were combined, in my opinion), magic happened. If they hadn't found each other, we would not have heard of them. I'm finding it hard to put into words, and magic is the best term I can come up with. Ordinarily I don't believe in magic, but whatever it is, it is far beyond music. It never happened before or since, that's for sure. It sometimes astounds me all over again to think that it happened at all. But then again, I'm an obsessive.
Oh come on man, it's who you know, at the right time and if the world is ready for what you have. There are loads of amazing bands, particularly these days, who could do as well as them, but the market has changed. Think they'd hit international fame in 2024 with Spotify and Tiktok? They hit it very well in 1964 from then on. Things can break easily and it nearly did for the Beatles many times. Also business. No divine intervention to help Apple's Profit and Loss statement of 1969. Many grandiose Beatles fans and for what reason, what's the point?
i think that clock was a message. plus, i think when paul did that solo... george came down and guided his hands to play those notes. it felt like george was playing in that song. that was that part that moved me. i love that song.
I hope not. As far as I'm concerned, I'm the biggest Beatles fan in the world. I think the song is a grave-robbing piece of nothing. Same with 'Real Love' and 'Free as a Bird'. In order for Beatles magic to happen, the music has to be filtered through all four set of ears and all four brains. Just my opinion, of course. I realize millions of fans disagree.
@@ronniechilds2002 Maybe those songs should have been credited as Lennon, McCartney, Harrison, and Starr rather than the Beatles. The Beatles could never exist again after Johns death in my view.
the Anthology (initially titled, "the Long and Winding Road" until just a bit before it was released) project started in the mid to late 70s. but, with John's untimely death, it was put on hold for quite a long time
the story of the Beatles is much more than what is publicly known and some might consider supernatural, although all is natural... the Beatles got back together in the 90s and in 2023 to complete a known future that would keep the message alive of "peace and love" on a world going forward with an environment in collapse and a humanity ready for global war extermination... the promo A Day in the Life is the flip side to the Now and Then promo with the various Beatles in a somber mood as the "news" of the day was not the desired peace and love but rather a world ready to crash... if you slow down the promo for a Day in the Life, you can see various rock stars out of time like Bono next to Jagger, including Michael Jackson between nose jobs, as a jump shot... there is even the word "Taylor" toward the end of the promo as written script...
@@seanwade8188 your comment sounds like a demand rather than the result of an acquisitive mind.. either you don't know how to slow down a video or you can't solve for nine
@@geraldysjunk for schizo puzzle players willing to live with a blown mind, interestingly many different artists have done their version of A Day in the Life promo with Madonna's Ray of Light being one piece
Hmmmm... you just made me realize I've never even looked at the back of the vinyl single I bought and immediately stuck on the shelf (listening only to the download)...
I’ve heard the original Now and Then tape on RUclips. It had more than a hum. The sound was like a growling electrical short. The recording was not useable and that is why George didn’t like it. In the last ten years or so another recording of Now and Then was found which was much cleaner without the growling sound. A few people posted arrangements of that recording on RUclips. Some were pretty good. Peter Jackson took the higher quality recording of John’s song and separated out the vocal of that track for the single. If George was still alive, I don’t think he would have minded working again on the Now and Then single with the clean vocal from John.
@@ontheruntonowhere ; Many of the Beatles’ songs were trite, and yet they still recorded them while John and George were alive. Examples; Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da, Your Mother Should Know, Honey Pie, and so on.
Something I noticed on the Clock: The yardstick on the bottom reads 13,14,15,16, and ends at 17. George first played guitar with Paul and John as the Quarrymen at age 14. He became a Beatle along with the rest of the band at age 17. The top yard stick reads 51,52,53,54,55,,56 not quite reaching 57. George was 51 when they began working on recording John’s songs and 54 when he finished his part on now and then and was diagnosed with cancer that same year. George was stabbed by a crazy man at age 56 but recovered. His very last recording session was for his last studio album “Brainwashed” when he was 56, never to record again. George died at age 58.
I've grown to like the song, though it is a bit of a downer. The music video really helps to enhance it. Terrible front cover, though. It looks like something put together from 1990s discount software.
I think it was the ghost of Dick James that caused Olivia to retrieve the clock, because even though he had long parted ways with the Beatles, he could smell the money to be made off them.
I was the most avid Beatles fan you could finddyring the sixties, however lets not be too naive. When George Harrison was alive, he made his views on Now And Then clear. This is Paul clutching at straws to justify a track that he had the biggest hand in bringing to market. When George was trying to get help from Paul regarding the lyrics to Something, Paul showed little interest. He was only interested in pushing his own tracks. When Paul took over the Beatles after the death of their Manager Brian epstein, he ran roughshod over all the other members. In fairness, no one else was doing it and we probably only got as many Beatle songs as we did because of that. But George was ground under foot in the process. We all know now, that George had become an equal to Paul and John in his song writing. On his best days it could well be argued that George was the superior songs man. Paul's slide guitar was no match for Georges. Just listen to Now And Then. I love the Beatles and much of their individual works after the breakup, but lets not pervert history just because Paul is the only one left saying things.
I know I’ll get shit for this, but Paul was simply a lot better than the other three overall. His stuff he did solo and with Wings further proves it, there’s no comparison in my eyes. For what it’s worth, Now And Then isn’t that good a track on its own merits imo. Outside of the sentimentality attached to it, it’s quite throwaway. And you’re right that it’s a bit contrived how Paul is trying to twist things now after the fact.
@@jonathanmarkham1998 agree with half of what you said; I think George had the best catalog overall. He never made a bad album - even Dark Horse is winning people over, 50 years later. Paul has thrown us a lot of turkeys since the 80's - Press to Play, Off the Ground, Flaming Pine Tree, that awful Russian oldies album.
I wasn't going to watch this, but You Tube keeps recommending it, so here I am. I think Paul is delusional. Paul, George and Ringo had already worked on the song in 1995 and decided to shelve it. George lost interest. These days, though, Paul is obsessed with John and the Beatle years. Even though he's had a long and varied career since the Beatles broke up, he clings to the Beatle years, like that was the highpoint of his life and everything since has been a disappointment. You don't see him pining for Jimmy McCulloch or Denny Laine the way he publicly pines for John Lennon. Paul has to have everyone know that "I was the genius in the Beatles, I was the one the guy you worship chose to work with". I'm just tired of his whole act. I wish John and George were here to bring him back down to earth.
so clearly you are John fan - "I don't believe in Jesus, I don't believe in Buddha, I don't believe in Krishna" "there ain't no Jesus gonna come from the sky"
@@scottgunvaldsonmusic4116I get that technically they count too, but as far as I’m concerned the last ‘true’ Beatles songs were in 1970. Anything after that is more like a spin off in my eyes.
McCartney's slide solo did not sound like George's style in the slightest. Strings there, which are louder than the slide, are not worthy of what George Martin would have done either. Swing and a miss. He also buried George's acoustic so as to be almost imperceptible. George did not mystically approve any of that!! Piano is great however, classic Paul doing John. Overall I feel McCartney did John right in this tribute, but Ringo's part doesn't show his personality, and George I think was slighted. The clock... well the clock runs out on everything eventually I guess, and if it weren't for the clock things could always have gone in a different direction.
Get a life, man., Or get a treatment. What is your problem? Enviy, maybe. You see something so amazingly beautiful and decides to discover bad things...where there no nothing bad to see. Sure, the guitar sounds like George's and very much like George. As someone pointed here, it is like George helped him to play. Paul didn't bury anything, for God's Sake. After so many years...We had The Beatles back. And you decided to speak poison. It was number one again, man.... Does it hurt you? Because they are so successful even with passing time? Oh yes, you need a doctor. As you are not a bit important, your words doesn't mean nothing. It is only pathetic . But you need help.
Beatles fan for over 50 years. Free as a bird and now and then are both absolute dogs. The latter being the worst of the two. Whats worse is because its Beatles we are dealing with an Emperor's new clothes situation.
I love george and anyone who does not is a wrong-un, its a knowing thing
Even music-snobs I know who detest the Beatles have good things to say about both George Harrison and his tunes! Really like his music even if there's nothing special about it! (This Song)
Thank you for the very Fab video!
The first time I heard the song it bowled me over completely! I approached it without the video, just the tune. It just struck me like I'd always known it and now finally here it was!! I've never gotten so emotional over a song that I had no connection with ever.. Within seconds I had tears streaming down the sides of my face! My wife was like, yeah, yeah the Beatles and then she looked at me and actually got worried cause it was so far out of my character!
I had guitar in hand after the second playing and it just.. I don't know, I didn't have to try and learn it, the song moved my hands into the chords! I'm 56 years old, been playing since 5 and NEVER had that happen!!! Everything about the Beatles was and is meant to be. A truly blessed band that continues to inspire, entertain and amaze!
The Beatles formation was divine intervention. The world needed them and they were manifested to bring joy to all of us.
Personally I don't believe in things divine, but the Beatles came close enough for me. It has to be the biggest coincidence of my lifetime that there existed these four people who happened to have these certain unique talents, different from everyone else's talents, they lived in the same time and place, and they came to know each other and formed a band. It turned out that when the unique talents and personalities of each were combined (and ONLY when all four were combined, in my opinion), magic happened. If they hadn't found each other, we would not have heard of them. I'm finding it hard to put into words, and magic is the best term I can come up with. Ordinarily I don't believe in magic, but whatever it is, it is far beyond music. It never happened before or since, that's for sure. It sometimes astounds me all over again to think that it happened at all. But then again, I'm an obsessive.
It basically came down to who was going to work with Paul McCartney
But what spirit were they of ?
I agree
Oh come on man, it's who you know, at the right time and if the world is ready for what you have. There are loads of amazing bands, particularly these days, who could do as well as them, but the market has changed. Think they'd hit international fame in 2024 with Spotify and Tiktok? They hit it very well in 1964 from then on. Things can break easily and it nearly did for the Beatles many times. Also business. No divine intervention to help Apple's Profit and Loss statement of 1969. Many grandiose Beatles fans and for what reason, what's the point?
i think that clock was a message. plus, i think when paul did that solo... george came down and guided his hands to play those notes. it felt like george was playing in that song. that was that part that moved me. i love that song.
Yes.
Yes agree. I hear George.
Cloud Nine (1987, not 1989)
Good spot. Must have been a slip of the tongue - my bad!
@@MusicMongoose Slip of the AI.
Real Love was first released with the Imagine documentary movie. This was a different version, though, with acoustic guitar instead of piano.
I can’t wait to see Jeff Lynne this Friday for the ELO Over and Out Tour. I loved it when he got to work on Free as a Bird and Real Love.
If John and George were alive in the flesh today would that song really have been released?
Great question
Why not?
I hope not. As far as I'm concerned, I'm the biggest Beatles fan in the world. I think the song is a grave-robbing piece of nothing. Same with 'Real Love' and 'Free as a Bird'. In order for Beatles magic to happen, the music has to be filtered through all four set of ears and all four brains. Just my opinion, of course. I realize millions of fans disagree.
@@ronniechilds2002 Yeah, but Ronnie has not inner musical ears, so...
@@ronniechilds2002 Maybe those songs should have been credited as Lennon, McCartney, Harrison, and Starr rather than the Beatles. The Beatles could never exist again after Johns death in my view.
the Anthology (initially titled, "the Long and Winding Road" until just a bit before it was released) project started in the mid to late 70s. but, with John's untimely death, it was put on hold for quite a long time
the story of the Beatles is much more than what is publicly known and some might consider supernatural, although all is natural... the Beatles got back together in the 90s and in 2023 to complete a known future that would keep the message alive of "peace and love" on a world going forward with an environment in collapse and a humanity ready for global war extermination... the promo A Day in the Life is the flip side to the Now and Then promo with the various Beatles in a somber mood as the "news" of the day was not the desired peace and love but rather a world ready to crash... if you slow down the promo for a Day in the Life, you can see various rock stars out of time like Bono next to Jagger, including Michael Jackson between nose jobs, as a jump shot... there is even the word "Taylor" toward the end of the promo as written script...
The least schizo Beatles fan
That is not Bono or Michael Jackson, what are you on about 😂
@@seanwade8188 your comment sounds like a demand rather than the result of an acquisitive mind.. either you don't know how to slow down a video or you can't solve for nine
@@geraldysjunk for schizo puzzle players willing to live with a blown mind, interestingly many different artists have done their version of A Day in the Life promo with Madonna's Ray of Light being one piece
Props to you for crediting the great Adam Bound. The man is a master at compiling old footage and audio!
I love the story. That’s enough for me.
Hmmmm... you just made me realize I've never even looked at the back of the vinyl single I bought and immediately stuck on the shelf (listening only to the download)...
I’ve heard the original Now and Then tape on RUclips. It had more than a hum. The sound was like a growling electrical short. The recording was not useable and that is why George didn’t like it.
In the last ten years or so another recording of Now and Then was found which was much cleaner without the growling sound. A few people posted arrangements of that recording on RUclips. Some were pretty good.
Peter Jackson took the higher quality recording of John’s song and separated out the vocal of that track for the single.
If George was still alive, I don’t think he would have minded working again on the Now and Then single with the clean vocal from John.
He didn't like the song in general. In Paul's words he said it was "fookin rubbish". lol love George's honesty.
@@p0llenp0ny ; George could not know what the song sounded like when the first available recording had what sounded like a jackhammer throughout it.
@@bb1111116 The song itself is rubbish - predictable and trite - nothing to do with the recording.
@@ontheruntonowhere ; Many of the Beatles’ songs were trite, and yet they still recorded them while John and George were alive. Examples; Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da, Your Mother Should Know, Honey Pie, and so on.
@@bb1111116 I disagree. Those songs weren't A Day In The Life but they were great pop songs.
beautiful
Sorry to nitpick but just FTR the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame is in Cleveland. Maybe the induction ceremony that year was in New York. Great video!
Love George but he could be cranky
Contributed a lot to the band but I’ve never found him that likeable based on the bits I’ve seen from him, albeit they are just snippets.
At least he was honest. The song was rubbish.
@@jonathanmarkham1998He was a straight shooter.
George was always real; Paul never lets down his guard, he's always thumbs up, always Beatles fan #1.
Something I noticed on the Clock: The yardstick on the bottom reads 13,14,15,16, and ends at 17. George first played guitar with Paul and John as the Quarrymen at age 14. He became a Beatle along with the rest of the band at age 17. The top yard stick reads 51,52,53,54,55,,56 not quite reaching 57. George was 51 when they began working on recording John’s songs and 54 when he finished his part on now and then and was diagnosed with cancer that same year. George was stabbed by a crazy man at age 56 but recovered. His very last recording session was for his last studio album “Brainwashed” when he was 56, never to record again. George died at age 58.
I don’t believe in coincidence. 🥰
Beautiful,....
George hated the song , and George never changed his mind once he made it up.
Well, he wasn't going to go up on the roof....
I don't think it was so much he hated the song it was the noise that drove him nuts. George was talking about the recording.
@@TerryTutor-cv3hh Point taken , but regarding people ,no matter how wrongheaded his greviance , it stuck.
Exactly correct, and I resent the Fool on the Hill trying to vindicate himself when George can't speak for himself.
I've grown to like the song, though it is a bit of a downer. The music video really helps to enhance it. Terrible front cover, though. It looks like something put together from 1990s discount software.
My thoughts exactly!
I'm not a fan either but I believe it was designed by a world famous Pop artist.
I tuned out at the first sentence. The artwork is beautiful and elegant.
The music video however… let’s just say a fan did a much better job.
Someone has to be too unsentimental and with bad taste, not to simply adore this Divine song.
@@dabreu I guess that's me 🤷♀
Hope All for Love exists.....
It was George. Hari Om
I think it was the ghost of Dick James that caused Olivia to retrieve the clock, because even though he had long parted ways with the Beatles, he could smell the money to be made off them.
Dick James sold off the publishing to the Beatles catalogue in the 80s.
Think Macca really put a graft in and brought something very slim into reality. I like the travk and love Maccas slide and bass. Sorry.
I was the most avid Beatles fan you could finddyring the sixties, however lets not be too naive. When George Harrison was alive, he made his views on Now And Then clear. This is Paul clutching at straws to justify a track that he had the biggest hand in bringing to market. When George was trying to get help from Paul regarding the lyrics to Something, Paul showed little interest. He was only interested in pushing his own tracks. When Paul took over the Beatles after the death of their Manager Brian epstein, he ran roughshod over all the other members. In fairness, no one else was doing it and we probably only got as many Beatle songs as we did because of that. But George was ground under foot in the process. We all know now, that George had become an equal to Paul and John in his song writing. On his best days it could well be argued that George was the superior songs man. Paul's slide guitar was no match for Georges. Just listen to Now And Then. I love the Beatles and much of their individual works after the breakup, but lets not pervert history just because Paul is the only one left saying things.
I know I’ll get shit for this, but Paul was simply a lot better than the other three overall.
His stuff he did solo and with Wings further proves it, there’s no comparison in my eyes.
For what it’s worth, Now And Then isn’t that good a track on its own merits imo.
Outside of the sentimentality attached to it, it’s quite throwaway.
And you’re right that it’s a bit contrived how Paul is trying to twist things now after the fact.
@@jonathanmarkham1998 agree with half of what you said; I think George had the best catalog overall. He never made a bad album - even Dark Horse is winning people over, 50 years later. Paul has thrown us a lot of turkeys since the 80's - Press to Play, Off the Ground, Flaming Pine Tree, that awful Russian oldies album.
Chris Griffin?🤣😂
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Silly Sausage 👍🏻😁
You found the secret message! Here's a gold star ⭐
George, contray to beliefs, was the most Money Grubbing Beatle of them all.
lol lol lol, no, Paul is the king of money grubbing Beatles, although John wasn't far behind. Or should I say Jock and Yono.
I wasn't going to watch this, but You Tube keeps recommending it, so here I am. I think Paul is delusional. Paul, George and Ringo had already worked on the song in 1995 and decided to shelve it. George lost interest. These days, though, Paul is obsessed with John and the Beatle years. Even though he's had a long and varied career since the Beatles broke up, he clings to the Beatle years, like that was the highpoint of his life and everything since has been a disappointment. You don't see him pining for Jimmy McCulloch or Denny Laine the way he publicly pines for John Lennon. Paul has to have everyone know that "I was the genius in the Beatles, I was the one the guy you worship chose to work with". I'm just tired of his whole act. I wish John and George were here to bring him back down to earth.
9:58 Could this have been George? No, because the supernatural and metaphysical are unreal.
Shhh it’s fun to make believe 😂
so clearly you are John fan - "I don't believe in Jesus, I don't believe in Buddha, I don't believe in Krishna" "there ain't no Jesus gonna come from the sky"
I'm with George on this one, I can't stand the track. Also not a big fan of Real Love. Thought Free as a Bird was brilliant.
Yeah, I prefer the Regina Spektor cover
I think George was right the first time. It's a nothing song and shouldn't have been the "last Beatles single".
The fuck you say?
I think it's better than Free as a Bird and Real Love.
@@scottgunvaldsonmusic4116I get that technically they count too, but as far as I’m concerned the last ‘true’ Beatles songs were in 1970.
Anything after that is more like a spin off in my eyes.
It is an excellent career closer. Funny thing is, if you don't like it, you don't have to listen to it.
9:58 It was coincidence.
McCartney's slide solo did not sound like George's style in the slightest. Strings there, which are louder than the slide, are not worthy of what George Martin would have done either. Swing and a miss. He also buried George's acoustic so as to be almost imperceptible. George did not mystically approve any of that!! Piano is great however, classic Paul doing John. Overall I feel McCartney did John right in this tribute, but Ringo's part doesn't show his personality, and George I think was slighted. The clock... well the clock runs out on everything eventually I guess, and if it weren't for the clock things could always have gone in a different direction.
Get a life, man., Or get a treatment. What is your problem? Enviy, maybe. You see something so amazingly beautiful and decides to discover bad things...where there no nothing bad to see. Sure, the guitar sounds like George's and very much like George. As someone pointed here, it is like George helped him to play. Paul didn't bury anything, for God's Sake. After so many years...We had The Beatles back. And you decided to speak poison. It was number one again, man.... Does it hurt you? Because they are so successful even with passing time? Oh yes, you need a doctor. As you are not a bit important, your words doesn't mean nothing. It is only pathetic . But you need help.
Beatles fan for over 50 years.
Free as a bird and now and then are both absolute dogs. The latter being the worst of the two.
Whats worse is because its Beatles we are dealing with an Emperor's new clothes situation.