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My father was ill with lung cancer when this song was released...It hit him so hard...I can remember him bursting into tears as he heard it for the first time. He was sooo amazed at how come technology was able to bring the Beatles back to us. He died 10 months later. I wish he was here to celebrate the Beatles again with "Now and then". Carpe Diem, my friends❤

@stephaneherringtoniowritin4986

6 ай бұрын

😢❤

@tz125r

6 ай бұрын

How sad but uplifting that your Dad go to hear this beautiful song. So sorry for your loss take care ❤

@alfredrodriguez7106

6 ай бұрын

Your dad seemed like an amazing fellow..peace be with him and your family........

@gloriabusana308

5 ай бұрын

💔

@campinatorxbox1610

3 ай бұрын

Thank you for sharing your story with us.

Me learning today that Paul completed the unfinished line "whatever happened to the life that we once knew" and added "can we really live without eachother" 😭

@MusicbyKR

8 ай бұрын

I wasn't aware of it before either

@babyrne78

8 ай бұрын

I never realised John had written that "whatever happened to" line 🤯. Always though that was McCartney reminiscing!

@AE-bm4no

8 ай бұрын

Paul ruining it and trying to make it another love song 😴

@mr.lithium5493

8 ай бұрын

@@AE-bm4noGet out of here.

@harold3165

8 ай бұрын

@@AE-bm4no Grow up

I love how Paul and George filled in the blanks for John. So beautiful.

@chrisezelle

8 ай бұрын

♥️👍🏼🎵⭐️

@mikemccaine4229

8 ай бұрын

As much as I agree, this song and Imagine stand up on their own purely from the quality of the chord structures and lyrics and melody. But of course. All the Beatles songs complimented each others playing/input.

@justindensonvibes

8 ай бұрын

@@mikemccaine4229 yes, I just liked the lines in particular that they wrote. They could have come up with anything, but they went the sentimental route and, tho it's a love song on the surface, I feel they were also singing the line to John. So it tugs at my heart strings.

@despinakollas

6 ай бұрын

That’s what made the Beatles perfection. Four sums that equal the whole part.

@carlosromerolopez7954

4 ай бұрын

Eran sus mejores complementos :')

John's voice alone is great to hear.

@tf2368

8 ай бұрын

As good as Justin Bieber and Vengaboys though?

@waynej2608

8 ай бұрын

Always and forever! 👍

@edmondlau511

8 ай бұрын

It’s haunting. One of the great singers.

@carbybaby5929

8 ай бұрын

@@tf2368be for real

@bingohhhhhhhhhhhh

7 ай бұрын

@@tf2368 As good as me up your mom's ass.

This should be re-released with "Real Love" and put on new Beatles Album with "Now And Then". This song is a killer. Imagine Beatles has 3 songs in top 100 Billboard again..dream.

@gabrielvivar6291

8 ай бұрын

In 2025 could be released Anthology again

@Karmakatt6

8 ай бұрын

HOPEFULLY Jeff Lynne is involved!!

@jimmer1701

8 ай бұрын

I agree…a remix with Giles using the same AI software would polish up free as a bird and real love. We haven’t heard the last of the boys just yet! 😉

@theelvisguru9490

8 ай бұрын

An album with 3 tracks on it?😂

@Rathga28

8 ай бұрын

Imagine...

The calm in his voice is priceless

What a sad tragedy that this creative genius was snuffed out at 40 by an evil maniac. Think of how many other songs like this that John would have written in the decades since then. And we would be humming. Lost FOREVER. 😢

@GLING17

8 ай бұрын

Yes, it makes me so angry how the world was robbed of all of the songs that were to come but some crazy person took John's life. Such a tragedy. So unfair and pointless. 😞

@cirosantoro601

8 ай бұрын

And if he had been a "manchurian candidate" to kill John ?

@nickpmusic

8 ай бұрын

In a parallel universe he lived on another day and wrote some wonderful songs.

@GLING17

8 ай бұрын

@@nickpmusic That is a very nice thought! Thanks for sharing it. ❤️😊

@tinpanally51_36

8 ай бұрын

The day the music died . I've never gotten over it really.

Love this version very much. It's so deep.

@MusicbyKR

8 ай бұрын

And it's pure, just John and a piano

@albertounited

8 ай бұрын

Absolutely!!

@axelheld6655

8 ай бұрын

The studio version is a masterpiece, please don't forget.

@ingridthurner3651

7 ай бұрын

Exactly ❤

Effortless songwriting. Switches keys easily, seamlessly, and just sings so sweetly over the top. No formal musical training - just pure talent. Odd lyrics which half tell a story so perfectly you don’t know what it’s about and yet you do. Just him filling in bits with “do do do” is still perfect.

@sarahwhite7098

8 ай бұрын

Agree, except I would caution against implying 'talent' is some mystical zero effort thing. No formal musical training, but one heck of a lot of practice and experience writing songs.

@CraigStCyrPlus

8 ай бұрын

​@@sarahwhite7098Practice and knowing yourself. Knowing what part of you to nurse.

@sarahwhite7098

8 ай бұрын

@@CraigStCyrPlus It takes a huge amount of effort to get to effortless songwriting.

@CraigStCyrPlus

8 ай бұрын

@@sarahwhite7098 Couldn't agree more. ✌️

@NBrixH

8 ай бұрын

@@sarahwhite7098 Depends.

I wondered if they might 'clean up' the two 90's singles, but you know what, I actually love the quality of the demos and the John vocal on the originals. It has a ghostly quality to it. Ethereal. It makes me feel really nostalgic. Leave them as they are I say.

@santiagocapellan3245

8 ай бұрын

I agree

@EyeShotFirst

8 ай бұрын

There were plenty of John's songs on the classic albums that had a raw unpolished sound. So yeah, I agree.

@sligobhoy8152

8 ай бұрын

I think a combo of Yazoo and The Flying Pickets cover is required to punish us for not being deserving of individual talent.

@simonhodgetts6530

7 ай бұрын

Agreed - the ethereal quality of John’s voice ads more than an AI clean up will ever do.

@Banglish123

7 ай бұрын

Look for free as a bird ai enhanced Lennon it's great

The version they produced for the Anthology album is wonderful of course. But theres something beautifully haunting about this raw version. Lennon on his piano gives it the purest form for the melody to truly hit.

@jsmyers24151

7 ай бұрын

I hear sadness in his voice, and I believe I know why. In 1974, while Lennon was in LA, he visited the studio Lynyrd Skynyrd was in, recording Second Helping (The Record Plant), for just a brief visit in the control room. There are a couple of Skynyrd documentaries that reference this. It's my belief that, if John Lennon visits your studio on the day you're recording, then you've done something he likes. So, you have to wonder, "Why would John Lennon be interested in Lynyrd Skynyrd?" In '69, the Beatles released I Want You (She's So Heavy) with its long jam session ending on Abbey Road. John Lennon loved the jam session (we would have gotten along great because, I do too!), and on Skynyrd's first album they released Free Bird with its long jam session at the end, beautifully adorned with jamming lead guitar solos. Apparently, Lennon never spoke to the band, as they said he left after just a few minutes. Fast forward to October 20, 1977, John's birth month (born the 9th), and news about Skynyrd's plane crash start hitting the airways. We know that during this time, Lennon was in his "house husband" phase and was surely to see the news on TV. I believe when he saw this he IMMEDIATELY became concerned about his own mortality, and this concern led him to begin writing the last three songs we would hear coming from the Beatles. There is sadness in his voice; he sounds despondent, like he just lost a friend. The only other song, I can think of, where he sounds this despondent is "Julia"; singing about his mother, who was killed in a hit and run accident by a drunk off-duty police officer. Even though Paul finished the line, I would be willing to bet that that's where Lennon would have taken it anyway, considering his frame of mind at the time. There's more to this, but I'm running out of time.

@ednadelleba42

6 ай бұрын

@@jsmyers24151 lyrics of remember of this way

John is completely outstanding.

I Love this demo version. John was such a talent. What a guy.

This song in its raw form sounds amazing. John’s voice and music can never be matched.

Listening to the incredible chord changes in this demo makes me realize the amazing genius of this hero of song writing. Immortalized forever in songs like this.

This brings thoughts of John leaving so soon and how he left. Very troubling. I am happy to have been enjoying The Beatles since their songs were played on radio well before they came to America. No one comes close to them.

@tinpanally51_36

8 ай бұрын

Way before ? Not by much in America I bought my first Beatles record in 1963. But it does bring that horrible night back to mind in Dec. Of 1980.

@lanerich6052

8 ай бұрын

Me TOO

Lennon was just the greatest. Such a beautiful lyrical poet, no one can write a song with the emotional impact that John Lennon could.

@tofayeahyeah1905

8 ай бұрын

He would be insufferable today.

@j.c7719

8 ай бұрын

@@tofayeahyeah1905 So you dislike him based on your assumption’s on what he would have acted like today had he not been murdered?

@philipbonner6486

8 ай бұрын

​@@tofayeahyeah1905Huh your not a nice person.

@tofayeahyeah1905

8 ай бұрын

@@j.c7719 I love his music. But he would have been a communist, "fur is murder", "stop the oil" kind of guy, i imagine.

@j.c7719

8 ай бұрын

@@tofayeahyeah1905 I disagree, he was intelligent enough to know that communism didn’t work in practice when he was alive, he was the only Beatle who refused to go vegetarian and I don’t think he would have cared too much about oil. He was always for peace and love, yes, he was anti-establishment but for all the right reasons.

素晴らしいの一言。ジョンにしか作れないコードワークと「free as a bird」というキーワードが、2020年代になっても色褪せない。とにかく素晴らしい。

I can cry over and over listening to this. More free than anything is his soul and limitless openness. Way, way up there with his very best songs. I would say I have heard more or less all of the very greatest musicians. Johnny boy trumps them all.

One of the most talented musicians of all time. Up there with any of the big classical artists.

Is voice just hits you. Makes a average song sound amazing. What a legend well missed

@FaxanaduJohn

8 ай бұрын

Average lol

@russschofield9486

8 ай бұрын

It is average . Lennons version of real love was much better the Beatles version of real love was better. The video is good though

@Nadia-et2zv

8 ай бұрын

​@@russschofield9486what?🤔

This song was my first encounter with the Beatles. Now I am the same age as John. Thank you, John.

Free as a bird It's the next best thing to be Free as a bird Home, home and dry Like a homing bird I'll fly As a bird on wings Whatever happened to The life that we once knew? Can we really live without each other? Where did we lose the touch That seemed to mean so much? It always made me feel so Free as a bird Like the next best thing to be Free as a bird Home, (home) home and dry Like a homing bird I'll fly As a bird on wings Whatever happened to The life that we once knew? Always made me feel so free Free as a bird Is the next best thing to be Free as a bird Free as a bird Free as a bird Oo-oo-oo

@elisabettabenvenuti5339

8 ай бұрын

Thank you very much!!! Very important know the words!!!!

@DanyalElia

8 ай бұрын

He doesn't have the full lyrics then... paul mccartney added the lyrics "can we really live without each other? Where did we lose the touch, that seemed to mean so much?"

@elisabettabenvenuti5339

8 ай бұрын

@@DanyalElia 💖

@sheercerebralpower

8 ай бұрын

Hummingbird?

@StevenTwoTwo

8 ай бұрын

​@@sheercerebralpowerNo, it's homing bird

A gem. I ve never heard this demo version before and i think that it s simply fantastic. I have no words to describe the emotions that i feel hearing this beautiful, marvellous, touching melody. Better than the “complete” version made by the rest of the band, in my opinion

@fravatel

8 ай бұрын

no! This is very pretty, but…The complete version is a true Beatles song…just listen to the harmonies

@KeithNagel

8 ай бұрын

Yeah. It goes straight for the jugular. The missing lyric is strangely affecting: there's really nothing more to say after that first line. The last thing this song needed was orchestration and polish.

@arricammarques1955

8 ай бұрын

Beauty in simplicity, peerless artist.

ありがとうございます。 ジョンの生バージョンを聴く事ができて感動しています。素晴らしいです。

How beautiful this song is ...

@MusicbyKR

8 ай бұрын

Listen to this, an unreleased masterpiece -> kzread.info/dash/bejne/m6KAmdWzervfoaQ.html

John made the basis of a great song, Paul, George, Ringo perfected it.. they are truly genius musicians..🎉❤

@dl21633

4 ай бұрын

Yes they did, but I think it is far better here without the electric drum machine.

This version is gorgeous.

Forver a beautiful song. Thank you, John.

Beautiful song

John’s voice is the greatest.

This is so incredible! Love this pared down, simple early version. It’s all there! So good to hear John singing this now.

The first time I heard this, I just cried. To this day, I can still feel the tears behind my eyes.

This version Is much clearer than the 1995 anthology Beatles version where Lennon singing voice is sound like a ghost

@MusicbyKR

8 ай бұрын

The problem with this version is that some lyrics are still missing, but the quality is better

@armandocardenasvela8722

8 ай бұрын

Al rato con lo que están haciendo para el 2025 por el 30 aniversario de la antología pueden relanzar las antologías Por eso no las incluyeron en los discos rojo y azul Todo es negocio Para que uno compré La voz de Lennon se escuchará más limpia como en now AND then Y no soy experto como otros que he leído comentarios No es nuestro caso amigo

@axelheld6655

8 ай бұрын

I love the original from the anthology, I also like it better than the later remix, which was structurally changed. What a beautiful song! And what a great feat to turn it into a studio version back then. The demo is nice too.

@thefonzkiss

8 ай бұрын

It’s the same vocal.

@axelheld6655

8 ай бұрын

I think the different vocal sound on the studio version is because they tried to push the piano into the background.

Dieses Stück berührt mich jedesmal aufs neue, wenn ich es höre. Es hat etwas magisch friedvolles an sich. Thank you John!

@MusicbyKR

8 ай бұрын

Juhu, jemand der Deutsch spricht!

@DolleHengst

4 ай бұрын

​@@MusicbyKRSie Liebt Dich, yeah yeah yeah

@MusicbyKR

4 ай бұрын

@@DolleHengst You can't imagine how strange it is for me when I hear the Beatles in German

Simply pure wonderful music

That got the heart going. John Lennon was something special.

We love you John! We will miss you forever…

"Where we goin' Johnny??" 'To the toppa most of the poppa most..!!!" RIP John.

Que bonito. Cuando naces escuchando la música de The Beatles sabes que también morirás con ella. Con 13 años fue devastador ese 8 de Dic de 1980 creo que en ese momento te llevaste contigo millones de corazones y parte de la historia de la música y a nosotros nos dejaste maravillosas joyas musicales. Mi querido John tan único, tan genio. Una vida con The Beatles 💕💕💫💫En momentos de tristeza y en momentos de alegría siempre puedes confiar en The Beatles.

@zeportella1321

8 ай бұрын

Verdade. John sabia das coisas. Até mais do que, em tese, deveria. Acabou perdendo a vida por isso. De resto concordo com tudo o que você colocou. Parabéns.

@teodorocromberg

8 ай бұрын

¡Qué hermoso lo que escribiste Marisa! Yo soy mayor que vos. Pero siento exactamente lo mismo. Vivir y morir con los Beatles. Soy músico formado: toco Bach y Brahms, enseño en conservatorios. Pero la música de los Beatles me acompaña todos los días.

@waynej2608

8 ай бұрын

Very nicely said. I agree wholeheartedly. John was a rare bird. No pun intended. John Lennon, 'en mi corazon siempre'! 👍

it's so magical to hear the voice of john.

Something haunting and melancholy about this version.

@MusicbyKR

8 ай бұрын

Exactly, I think that was lost in the Beatles version

@tjcint

8 ай бұрын

​@@MusicbyKR I totally agree with you !!!

I’m loving all these John Lennon songs! Just brilliant!

Love this. Amazing song. John the Greatest.

Beautiful….. sentimental…. Nostalgic….ahhhhh

@jB..33b854

7 ай бұрын

Lennon magic

Absolutely gave me the chills. Just so beautiful, i wish John had released this song in its rawest form because i think it compares with Imagine in its sheer beauty

@s_video4570

7 ай бұрын

Очень душевные и точные слова. Марк Чепмен сотворил величайшее зло на земле.

Shine On🌟John Lennon .. Lighting up The Universe for all Eternity

One of my favourites from John.rest now John your now free as a 🕊🕊🕊🕊🕊🕊🕊🕊🕊🕊🕊☮️☯️☦️🙏🌻🌻🌻🌻🌷🌷🌷🌷🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹Godbless you Amen

This is brillant! I love it ❤

how i wish he was given even just a year more to live , he could've given us who knows how many dozens more songs😭

he was a genius❤his songwriting!his voice! just magic!

Гениальная песня. The Beatles forever! ♥️

Simply amazing song!!

I've always loved this song. When I was a teen in the mid 2000s, I discovered this song when watching VH1. I got hooked instantly. Didn't know that this was an unfinished Lennon's song & completed by the remaining Beatles.

@conxitallopart5870

7 ай бұрын

The video is a work of art, my humble opinion

Ao eterno, ilustre gênio da música 🎵🎸 mundial do século 20 , John Lennon. Eu cresci , ouvindo às suas canções tão icônicas , poética e atemporais! A sua voz tão lindo e melódico vem do outro mundo ! Você é o eterno Beatles, assim como os maravilhosos, Paul MacCartney, Ringo Starr e George Harrison. A eterna banda dos sonhos ! Para este canal maravilhoso. Muito obrigado por editar a esse arquivo histórico estraordinario , o demo de John Lennon, Free as a BIRD A canção é linda demais ! Eu não me canso de ouvi - lo , o som do piano 🎹 é demais ! Eu , como o grande fã brasileiro 😄🇧🇷 mando .lhe uma calorosa salvas de palmas . ✨💫John Lennon 1940 _ 1980 ✨💫🎵🎸🎹💯👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏

@janaparoubkova5895

8 ай бұрын

Krásný komentář, cítím to úplně stejně 🥹🥹👏👏 Johna také miluji,nejen jako zpěváka, ale také jako člověka,byl úžasný, dodnes se nemůžu smířit s tím, že umřel,byl to opravdu moc hodný a citlivý člověk, který to neměl v životě vůbec jednoduché 🥹😥 Jinak písnička je překrásná, jako všechny Johnovo písně,jeho hudbu naprosto miluji,jeho písničky a hlas mě vždy dostanou do úplně jiného světa 💓💓

@leandromachado8257

8 ай бұрын

@@janaparoubkova5895 👋😃 muito obrigado ! 💛💚💙🙏🙏 Um grande abraço desde o Brasil 🇧🇷

@maj-brittsjogrenjacobsen7193

7 ай бұрын

❤❤@@janaparoubkova5895

obrigado por oferecer essa relíquia do grande John Lennon

I'm speechless. Thank you KR.

@MusicbyKR

8 ай бұрын

I just cleaned up the audio and remixed it, John did the actual work.

@nevermore1963

8 ай бұрын

@@MusicbyKR }{:)

John Lennon como sempre está de parabéns o melhor compositor e cantor!

Man was a genius,

MUCHAS GRACIAS POR COMPARTIR ESTA JOYA MUSICAL. Emocionante hasta las lágrimas... Saludos desde Lima Perú

beautiful in its rawness and melancholy! a gem...

Music by KR, thank you so, so much for putting this on KZread !! It is so much better than the one that was released .. I can't believe how much better ...

The Beatles... Nunca entenderé como puede haber tanta perfección en 4 sujetos.

John always among us and forever eternal!!! John siempre entre nosotros y por siempre eterno !!!

Grazie John per le tuoi canzoni, sicuramente continui a suonare e cantare li dove sei, grazie Beatles per la musica che mi ai fatto sentire e la sento ancora. E incredibile, ogni tanto scopro un tema nuovo tuo e dei miei Beatles

que hermosa la versión original ! Gracias Beatles por ser la banda de sonido de nuestras existencias !!

The reworked version they did in 95 and released as a single I've had as my ring tone for years and keep transferring it to every phone I've had over last few years

John lennon wrote the most interesting and perfect middle eights of all the Beatles

Great song. I think it would be held in higher esteem if he’d released it when he was alive.

@dustyoldhat

8 ай бұрын

My friend said he recorded these demos in a minor key but wanted most of Double Fantasy to be Major so that's why he didn't develop them at the time... if he had lived he might have put them on his next album. We'll never know.

Absolutely beautiful

This raw version gives a touch of very deep spiritual meaning to this song. There are not any version better than this.

アンソロジーバージョンも素晴らしいですが、このジョンの声は素晴らしい😊

Nothing happens forever and ever like this

Los demos de Jhon si ubieran salido a la luz como temas terminados estoy seguro que serían buenísimos los demos están geniales. Me encanta el trabajo que se hizo por parte de los Beatles restantes para 2 de las antologías los temas Free as a Bird y Real Love, su último tema con apoyo de la inteligencia artificial de Peter Jackson es muy fabuloso el resultado de Now And Then

Haunting and beautiful.

Hypnotic ❤ Such a genius 🎉 Thank you JL

So beautiful!❤

Lo grandioso de los Beatles es que no sabés a quien ,como músico, admirar más...

this demo is so incredibly emotional. wow

Lots and lots of talent to write that one!

@MusicbyKR

8 ай бұрын

Everyone here agrees with you

This is so lovely.

Many thanks for sharing this pearl!

So beautiful

Merci pour ce merveilleux moment ❤

Thank you very much for this videos 🎶

I cried..

なんでジョン・レノンはこんなにも素敵な曲を生み出せるのか

@MusicbyKR

8 ай бұрын

I have no idea

Brilliant,a glimpse of genius at work.

Beautiful. Thanks for sharing.

Beautiful

Maravilloso,gracias John, te extrañamos.

Lennon you are the best!☝🏽

@MusicbyKR

7 ай бұрын

I agree, number two is Harrison, not McCartney

@agentttttt

Ай бұрын

@@MusicbyKR wtf you just said? mccartney and lennon are together one of the most brilliant songwritters duo of all time

Amazing tune ❤

It'so so amazing to able for hearing this demo. ❤

@MusicbyKR

8 ай бұрын

All thank's to the Internet

Magnífico

The slowing... The purchase of conscience... So unreal ... So John.

LOVE this!!

I cried. And I never cry

@kbz0879

3 ай бұрын

😢

@maxxmudbone

2 ай бұрын

I cried, and I’m an avid crier, but still!

Hauntingly beautiful.