MICHAEL STAHL, portraitsbymichaelstahl.com
From left, Tink Lloyd, Joziah Longo, Maura Kennedy, Pete Kennedy and Sharkey McEwen perform at the Outpost in the Burbs in Montclair, Nov. 3.
“Now and Then” — promoted as “The Last Beatles Song” — was released on Nov. 2, and on Nov. 3, the duo The Kennedys and members of group The Slambovian Circus of Dreams joined together to cover it at their double-bill concert at the Outpost in the Burbs in Montclair.
MICHAEL STAHL, portraitsbymichaelstahl.com
From left, Joziah Longo, Maura Kennedy, Pete Kennedy and Sharkey McEwen at Outpost in the Burbs.
You can watch a video of it below, along with the official Beatles video for the song.
Maura Kennedy sings lead, and is joined by her partner Pete Kennedy; Slambovian Circus of Dreams members Joziah Longo, Tink Lloyd and Sharkey McEwen; and bassist Mark Dann.
The Beatles song started with a lo-fi demo left behind by the late John Lennon. Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr and George Harrison worked on it in 1995 but didn’t get a releasable version done. McCartney and Starr recently finished it, helped by technological advances that have occurred since ’95.
The song will appear on an expanded edition of The Beatles’ 1967-1970 anthology (also known as The Blue Album), to be released on Nov. 10.
Here are the videos:
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