Now and Then, the Last Beatles Song follows a decades-old demo tape all the way to a finished track, closing a loop that had stayed open since the band's earliest breakup.
What is Now and Then - The Last Beatles Song about?
This short documentary traces how an old home recording — long stuck in an unfinished state — was pieced together into a completed Beatles song, with Peter Jackson and his production team handling the restoration and assembly work. Rather than a biography of the band's whole career, the film narrows in on this one specific process: what it took, technically and creatively, to bring a decades-old recording up to a standard that could sit alongside the group's earlier catalogue. Surviving members and family of the band appear throughout, giving the film a firsthand account of what finishing the track meant to the people closest to it, rather than an outside narrator's summary. At just twelve minutes, it moves quickly, treating the song's completion as the culmination of the band's full run rather than a standalone footnote.
About the cast
The film centers on John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison, and Ringo Starr, with Sean Lennon, Olivia Harrison, and Dhani Harrison appearing as family carrying the story forward, and Peter Jackson featured for his work restoring and completing the recording.
Context & significance
Directed by Oliver Murray and released in 2023 in the United Kingdom, the film sits across the biography, documentary, and music categories — and at only 12 minutes, it's built as a short rather than a feature-length retrospective. Its focus stays tight on one recording's journey rather than attempting a full band history.
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