Tuesday, 7 November 2023

Medd Day Out


Unless you've been living under a rock for the last week or so you can't fail to have heard the hullabaloo surrounding what some (OK, everyone) are calling the new (and, at the same time, last) Beatles record. And, as you' d expect, this four minute ditty has made some people deliriously happy whilst at the same time making others reach for their quills to pen strongly worded letters to, I don't know, Paul and Ringo, probably. Or Yoko. Yep, it was she, again, who'd found a 'discarded' C60 cassette in the attic with John's scratchy vocals and vamped piano chords all over it and decided it would make a great little trust fund; to go with all the other little trust funds she's acquired since that fateful December night in 1980 outside The Dakota building.

The thing is, it's not as if we haven't already heard the song before; the bootleg has been doing the round since forever (Lennon wrote Now & Then in 1978) and it was even given a 'McCartney Makeover' by one of my favourite John and Paul mimics, Claus Nielsen: his excellent 2017 versh of Now & Then was surely Macca's template for the song everyone's comparing to Imagine (imagine that) but which IMHO is a far superior composition; it really is.

In other Beatles related news, I was down in our nation's capital this weekend getting up to all sorts of high jinks. Not least when I stumbled upon St. Pancras Gardens where the Fabs posed for one of their most iconic photoshoots from their now legendary Mad Day Out in July 1968. The inscription on the bench (which I'm amazed is still there) is priceless.  


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4 comments:

  1. The Swede8 November 2023 at 21:07

    I'm not long back from the smoke myself. The Boleyn has a particularly fine Best Bitter from Hackney's Five Points brewery on at the moment, that I recommend unreservedly.
    The title of this post is genius, pure and simple.

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    1. John Medd12 November 2023 at 22:40

      I really must get along to the Boleyn. Let me know when you're next down and we'll form a pincer movement on the place.
      Thank you, tho' genius is a bit of a reach!

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  2. Rol11 November 2023 at 22:00

    The photos are much better than the song.

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    1. John Medd12 November 2023 at 22:45

      They're really not; as you can probably tell, I absolutely love Now & Then; tho' I'd love it even more f they stopped calling int a Beatles record. It's not. Not least because Lennon wrote it in '78. And in 1978 John wouldn't have wanted Macca anywhere near it. It's a John Lennon record. Pure and simple.

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