Song · The Beatles
“Now And Then” by The Beatles
Released 2023
“Now And Then” by The Beatles appears on 15 radio countdowns from 11 stations between 2023 and 2026. It was first released in 2023. Its best result is #2 on the KXT Top 91 Songs of 2023. In the combined RockLists rankings it is the #5 indie & aaa song of 2023, #2,053 indie & aaa song of all time and #22 of the '20s.
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"Now and Then" arrived on November 2, 2023, billed as the last Beatles song, and it took nearly half a century to finish. John Lennon wrote and taped it as a home demo around 1977 and never completed it. The band tried it for the Anthology project in the mid-'90s, then shelved it when the tape fought back. Decades later, the machine-learning restoration tech Peter Jackson had built for Get Back lifted Lennon's voice clean off the demo, and Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr built the rest around it, keeping George Harrison's guitar from the abandoned 1995 sessions.
McCartney wrote some new lyrics and produced it with Giles Martin, with Jeff Lynne credited too. It's a hushed, string-swept ballad, Lennon floating over lap steel and harpsichord like a wave goodbye. Critics heard a fitting finale, and it won the Grammy for Best Rock Performance.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
RockLists rankings
Indie & Adult Alternative
All Rock Formats
Year-end countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 31 | Indie 102.3 Denver, CO | Indie 102.3 Top 102.3 Songs of 2023 | 98 |
| 2023 | 15 | 90.9 The Bridge Kansas City, MO | 90.9 The Bridge Top 90 Songs of 2023 | 90 |
| 2023 | 5 | Lightning 100 Nashville, TN | Lightning 100 Top 200 Songs of 2023 | 200 |
| 2023 | 2 | KXT Dallas–Fort Worth, TX | KXT Top 91 Songs of 2023 | 91 |
| 2023 | 30 | WERS 88.9 Boston, MA | WERS Top 88 Songs of 2023 | 88 |
| 2023 | 5 | WTMD Baltimore, MD | WTMD Top 89 Songs of 2023 | 89 |
| 2023 | 20 | The Current Minneapolis-St. Paul, MN | The Current Top 89 Songs of 2023 | 89 |
| 2023 | 16 | 107.1 The Peak Westchester County, NY | WXPK Top 107 Songs of 2023 | 107 |
| 2023 | 3 | WFUV New York, NY | WFUV Top 90 Songs of 2023 | 90 |
| 2023 | 24 | WYEP Pittsburgh, PA | WYEP Top 91 Songs of 2023 | 91 |
All-time and decade countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 644 | WYEP | WYEP Best Songs of the Past 50 Years | 1049 |
| 2024 | 198 | WXPN | WXPN The 885 Greatest Songs of the 21st Century (2024) | 885 |
| 2025 | 364 | The Current | 893 Essential Songs of The Current: 2005 to Now | 893 |
| 2025 | 91 | WYEP | WYEP Best Songs of the 21st Century (So Far) | 714 |
| 2026 | 562 | KXT | KXT 917 Song Countdown | 917 |
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