Giles Martin wanted to “rip off his dad” George for The Beatles’ ‘Now And Then’

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The Beatles‘ ‘Now And Then‘.Martin was approached by surviving Beatles member, Sir Paul McCartney, with a demo for what would be deemed as the “final” Beatles song ‘Now And Then’.

The track stems from a demo tape recorded by late bandmate John Lennon and was completed with the help of AI – which lifted the songwriter’s vocals off the initial recording and allowed the surviving members to work with them.Speaking about the process of working on ‘Now And Then’ in an interview with The Sun, Martin said: “Paul played me what he’d started working on from the ’94 demo plus the extras he’d already done — new bass, piano, the guitar solo.

Then we discussed whether to do more things with it.”They went on to create a Beatles-style string arrangement, the kind that Martin’s late father – who was known as the fifth Beatle due to his work producing their music – was famous for.“We started off with a 22-piece string section,” said Martin, “But eventually I cut it down to eight for most of the song — a double string quartet of four violins, two violas and two cellos.He continued: “I was thinking, ‘What would dad have done?’ And I know he would have said, ‘You have to serve the song.’ So yeah, if I wanted to rip off my dad, do it for ‘Now And Then’ by The Beatles.”The track also featured “oohs” and “aahs” sampled from Beatles hits ‘Eleanor Rigby’, ‘Because’, and ‘Here, There And Everywhere’, with Martin revealing that he had to persuade Macca to have them added to the song.“Paul was reticent about that, understandably so, because he didn’t want some gimmicky thing.

But I just thought, ‘The Beatles would do oohs here and I can’t get The Beatles to do them because two of the oohs are no longer with us’,” He said.He continued: “So I said to.