The track ‘Now And Then’ got its live debut during the opening night of Paul McCartney’s 'Got Back' tour in South America. The singer-songwriter will head to Europe in December. Paul McCartney has started his Got Back tour in Uruguay, and will be touring South America before heading to Europe in December.
Last night, the opening night of the tour at the Estadio Centenario in Montevideo, the former Beatle performed ‘Now And Then’ for the first time live. The track was as the “final” song from the Liverpool four-piece – the last track to include McCartney, John Lennon, George Harrison and Ringo Starr. Check out some of the footage from last night's gig: And another angle: 'Now And Then' comes from the same batch of unreleased demos written by the late John Lennon, which were taken by his former bandmates to construct the songs 'Free As a Bird' and 'Real Love', released in the mid-1990s.
McCartney, Starr and Harrison worked on 'Now And Then' in the same sessions, but technological limitations stood in the way. That changed in 2022, when the band - now a duo - was able to utilise the same technical restoration methods that separated the Beatles’ voices from background sounds during the making of director Peter Jackson’s 2021 documentary series, The Beatles: Get Back. They were able, , to isolate Lennon's voice from the original cassette and complete ‘Now And Then’.
The song contains guitar that Harrison had recorded nearly three decades ago, a new drum par.