Peter Jackson's music video for Now and Then, and the 12-minute short documentary film by Oliver Murray, Now and Then: The Last Beatles Song, were both released in November 2023.
What do we think of the techniques used, and what does the amount of restored footage point to? Plus! Is the song a Beatles song? If a song features all four Beatles, does it automatically sound Beatley? And AI: will it kill us all?
- If you're in the UK listen to the BBC radio documentary we mention, "Eras: The Beatles". This is the Now and Then episode which contains longer versions of the voiceovers in the documentary, among other things
- The two songs we reference as examples of self-consciously Beatley production are George Harrison's When We Was Fab and Tears for Fears' Sowing the Seeds of Love