Originally Posted by
ramAnag
Calm down GP...it was just a comment about a song. Nothing contentious. I’ve always, perhaps wrongly, thought of ‘Let it Be’ as being the Beatles’ last single, although I think ‘The Long and Winding Road’ was later released as a US single but remained just a UK album track. Both were released in 1970 hence my ‘O’ levels to ‘approaching 70’, 53 year gap comment.
I like ‘Free as a Bird’ too, but I honestly don’t know what makes a song, or any other piece of art/music/literature, genius or ordinary. Ultimately I suspect it just comes down to what we like and beyond that things can become a tad pretentious.
P.S. Perhaps the difference between ‘Free as a Bird’ and ‘Now and Then’ is that Lennon wrote the former in 1977, seven years after the Beatles split and three years before his death. The record was eventually released by the three remaining Beatles long after Lennon’s death and I don’t think he’s on it. Technology and AI have now allowed the voice of JL and GH’s guitar to feature prominently on ‘Now and Then’ hence the claim that it’s a Beatles record rather than something by Paul, George and Ringo.