Julian Lennon wrote the most moving eulogy of John death in just three words

By editorial board on December 9, 2023

It's extremely weird how the pieces of a puzzle fit together. Not just before the anniversary of the deaths of John, Paul and Ringo (but strongly desired by Paul), Now and Then was published. The song had been proposed for Antology but it was not possible to work on it for technical reasons. And what's more, George Harrison had written it off as rubbish.

Finally, after years of hard work, the song was released and became another Beatles number 1 in all the charts around the world.

You know the title of the song is Now nad Then. Now, a docuseries of dubious elegance is coming out about the night John was killed. Nothing new under the sun. But advertised as exclusive, but it isn't.

Julian, John's first son (Hey Jude), wrote the most moving eulogy in just three words: Now and Then a I Miss You.

 

The three-part show is a deep dive into the 1980 assassination of the former Beatles member. It is narrated by Hollywood legend Kiefer Sutherland and directed by Nick Holt and Rob Coldstream. The programme is set to arrive on the streaming platform on December 6th.

Titled “John Lennon: Murder Without a Trial,” the docuseries features “exclusive eyewitness interviews and previously unseen crime scene photos, shedding new light on the life and murder of music and cultural icon John Lennon and the investigation and conviction of Mark David Chapman, his confessed killer,” according to Variety.

 

MeantimeYoko Ono left Dakota Building (NYC), after 50 years, to  move to a farm purchased with John Lennon.

Yoko, who just turned 91, has quit New York City to move to a farm near Franklin.

Reclusive Yoko  hands over her business interests in The Beatles and John Lennon to their son Sean. Last month Sean Yoko Lennon was appointed a director at eight companies linked to Yoko and the Beatles.

She left the Upper West Side apartment she shared with John for decades during the pandemic and has chosen to remain on the couple's 600-acre farm full-time
John was famously murdered in the doorway of the elite Dakota Building, where the pair shared their apartment, on December 8, 1980.

On the John Lennon' last day of life he said: “I hope to die before Yoko because if she died I wouldn't know how to survive.

As Yoko Ono later told, that was a beautiful day in New York, the sky was clear and the air was crisp: the couple had a lot of commitments planned, including a photo shoot, an interview and another work session on their song Walking On Thin Ice at Record Plant studios.

As reported by the Smithsonian magazine, after having breakfast at 'Café La Fortuna' with Yoko Ono, John Lennon went to the 'Viz-à-Viz' (hairdresser) to have his hair fixed: when he came out of the salon, the artist had a new cut in retro style, which was very reminiscent of what he had at the beginning of his career. Soon after he went back to his apartment, where photographer Annie Leibovitz was setting up the set for the photo shoot they had already started the previous week.

Once the photo shoot was over, John went downstairs where, in Yoko Ono's office, the RKO Radio team was waiting for an interview with Dave Sholin. He told him about his typical day: "I get up around 6, go to the kitchen, have a coffee, cough a little and then smoke a cigarette, while I watch the Sesame Street program with my son Sean. I make sure you watch PBS and not cartoons with commercials. I'm not interested in cartoons, but I don't want him to watch commercials.

John also spoke of his fortieth birthday, which he recently celebrated: ”. He then spoke to Sholin about his music, explaining that he thinks of his career as a continuous path: "I have always considered my work as a unique work - he said - whether with the Beatles, with David Bowie, with Elton John or with Yoko Ono. . And I also think my work won't be done until I'm dead and gone, which I hope will happen in a long, long time. " These words have a certain effect today, considering that John Lennon died shortly after uttering them.

The Story Behind Late Lennon's Song "Now and Then"

In 1978 John Lennon composed a song “for Paul” that rested beside “Free As a Bird” and “Real Love” that he titled “Now and Then".

Just a year before the autobiographical film came out, Yoko Ono, Lennon’s widowed wife, handed Paul two cassette tapes from John. Along with this heartwarming track, Lennon composed a song he called “Grow Old With Me” that was prepared within the theme of remorse that existed on this tape.

Lennon recorded this as a home demo on a cassette tape in the late 1970s, and had planned to record it properly on the follow-up album to Double Fantasy. Unfortunately he was killed before he could record a studio version. Yoko Ono released his single-track version of this on the Milk And Honey posthumous album in 1984. Later she asked Beatles producer George Martin to score an orchestral arrangement for this to use on the 1998 Lennon Anthology set.
Paul McCartney wanted to make this the third Beatles "reunion song," but producer Jeff Lynne told him this would be very difficult because of a hum on the cassette that couldn't be eliminated. Also, George Harrison objected because it was too sad, given the nature of John's death - Yoko couldn't "grow old along with him," as the song urged.

"Now And Then" (also known as "I Don't Want To Lose You" or "Miss You") is the name given to an unreleased composition by John Lennon. It was first recorded in demo form in 1978 and was considered in 1995 as a third possible reunion single by Lennon's former band, The Beatles, for their 1995 autobiographical project The Beatles Anthology.

Despite reports, for the most part the verses are nearly complete, though there are still a few lines that Lennon did not flesh out on the demo tape performance.

In March 1995, the three surviving Beatles began work on "Now And Then" by recording a rough backing track that was to be used as an overdub. However, after only two days of recording, all work on the song ceased and plans for a third reunion single were scrapped permanently. According to McCartney, George Harrison "didn't want to do it," possibly because new verses would have had to be written.

 

 

 

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