When we believed that everything about The Fab Four That said, boom: John Lennon’s last unreleased song comes to light, Now and thenwhich was made by Paul and Ringo, and with the help of artificial intelligence and the best existing music technologies, was recently released with a video, only to break all records 50 years later and meteorically climb to the top of the most prestigious world charts.

And the Beatles always keep touch, magic, fiber and sensitivity to reach the deepest part of the masses. In the 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, 1990s, 2000s, 2010s and 2020s; They are timeless; in old and young; In musicians and non-musicians, there is always a song, a text, a message, a note that takes us away, that reminds us of a place, a moment or someone special.

This is the story of “Now and Then”: the last Beatles song that Yoko Ono kept after Lennon’s death and was just recorded with AI

This new work is structured around Lennon’s lyrics: one of those that you have to listen to many times to try to discover the hidden message. This was the permanent mischief of the misunderstood child genius that lived in him until the day he died: playing with the world, challenging the public to understand his messages, coded in a walrus, a bird or a diamond. And that on his usual piano, very acoustic and with transitions from sadness to brief touches of happiness, which was also his life.

The rest in the hands of Sir Paul, certainly the most talented, perfectionist and gifted musician of the 20th century.

The song is filled with Paul’s always precise and well-crafted bass, Ringo’s very Beatles-esque drumming arrangements and the valuable accompaniment of some strings, carefully blended, under the strict and always displeased gaze of Paul, who has nothing to do but make up. , faced with the real impossibility of doing everything himself, so that it would be perfect.

The video allows us to go through different moments of his very short musical career. Seeing them very young, mature and old, all mixed up, in passages that seem to bring back those who, because of that inconceivable and permanent struggle between life and death, were ahead of them in leaving this world that is increasingly filled with geniuses. .. (paraphrasing José María Cano).

Now and then He comes to remind us of those who forever marked the before and after of contemporary music.

Kojima, 65 years later, continue to inspire the world with their lyrics and melodies, their profound messages about love, life, peace and death.

Walking around Liverpool, I always do the exercise of imagining the 50s, recovering from the disaster of war, always open to sailors disembarking in search of fun, to kill the nostalgia for distance. And in him I see some troubled young people, with deep pain, restless and dreamers.

I see Paul and John, George and Ringo, who seem to live in today’s Liverpool, which continues to vibrate in its rhythm, and which manages to remind us that history began there, their history. (OR)