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Beatles plan a new single
Yes, two of them are dead and one of them is Ringo Starr, but the rest of the Beatles is apparently putting together some Frankenstein-style "new Beatles single". Jeff Lynne is going to produce it:
"Paul said that he felt he had one great song left in him. He's always been the most uncannily intuitive person and it looks like that song has finally arrived."
Apparently, it's going to be based on bits of Now and Then, which John Lennon had scribbled down somewhere. Now and Then - do you understand the poignancy?
It's lucky the pisspoor Free As A Bird and Real Love have already, respectively, ploughed up the band's legacy and reduced any sense of expectations beyond the point of 'fearing it'll be bad', so it's not going to be quite the crushing disappointment it could have been.
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'real love' was, actually, really good. better than most of 'let it be' in my opinion.
I agree. A lovely song. 'Free as a Bird' was a bit of a dirge but I quite liked the plunging bassline. It would have sat fairly comfortably on the White Album.
Maybe the song itself (though that's pushing it), but not the *sound*: the 95/96 "Beatles" singles had horribly clean and nostalgic production values that drowned out the whole songs, not something the actual Beatles ever suffered from.
I can't see those singles as doing anything other than seriously distort the Beatles' reputation. The idea that there might be more where they came from convinces me more and more that, for every valid reason in the world, I'd now rather listen to Jake Thackray.
I found some news about that here:
http://www.elodiscovery.com/all-over-the-world.html
You can listen to "Now And Then" on this page.
David
You are a dickhead ... publishing your uninformed waffle on the web is an atrocity.
@Kieran
An atrocity? What, like a war crime, say? Perhaps on a par with the shooting of unarmed civilians who were under the protection of the Red Cross?
Or do you actually mean "your taste in posthumous Beatles releases is different to mine", which would seem to be rather less akin to an atrocity.
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