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The music video for "Now and Then," billed as "the last Beatles song," was directed by Peter Jackson, who directed "The Beatles: Get Back." It's his first foray into music video production. The video features never-before-seen archival footage of the Fab Four: Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr, and the late John Lennon and George Harrison. The music video is described in a press release as "poignant and humorous" and something for fans to "celebrate The Beatles' timeless and enduring love for one another." Jackson also opened up in the press release about the stress he felt in creating the video for such an important project. "To be honest, just thinking about the responsibility of having to make a music video worthy of the last song The Beatles will ever release produced a collection of anxieties almost too overwhelming to deal with," he said. "My lifelong love of The Beatles collided into a wall of sheer terror at the thought of letting everyone down." He continued, "This created intense insecurity in me because I'd never made a music video before, and was not able to imagine how I could even begin to create one for a band that broke up over 50 years ago, had never actually performed the song, and had half of its members no longer with us." Jackson said that at first, he was worried about "the lack of suitable footage," saying, "A Beatles music video must have great Beatles footage at its core. There's no way actors or CGI Beatles should be used. Every shot of The Beatles needed to be genuine." To assist, McCartney and Starr shot footage of themselves performing the song and sent it to the "Lord of the Rings" director. In contrast, Apple, the families of Lennon and Harrison, and former Beatles drummer Pete Best all sent unearthed footage for him to use. Jackson, who also directed a short film about the making of the song "Now and Then," said that in making the music video, he wanted to achieve a "balance between the sad and the funny." "I have genuine pride in what we made," he said, "and I’ll cherish that for years to come." Source: ABC News Amid all the focus on The Last Beatles Song, “Now and Then,” we lost sight of the other treat coming this week: The Music Video of the Last Beatles Song. Even though the Fab Four preceded the MTV era, film has always been a big part of their artistry. For this one, they stayed mostly in-house, tapping acclaimed Get Back director and Beatles mixing genius Peter Jackson to direct. So it’s with the utmost respect for the lads that someone’s gotta ask: What the hell is going on here? Let’s go to Jackson first. “We have Ringo and Paul in 2023 trying to work on a song and they get invaded by the 1967 Beatles,” he told Esquire. “So that was the idea, that they show up to disrupt them as they attempt to finish the song.” That’s … not quite how it actually goes. The video starts out innocuously enough, splicing together never-before-seen footage of the band playing over John Lennon’s initial demo in the mid-’90s, with contemporary clips of Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr performing. It’s so much to take in that, by the time Young Macca shows up in the studio with Old Macca, you just have to go with it. Jackson said an original cut of the video was “sentimental and depressing.” We guess it’s better to be silly and weird, but it’d be even better to not use goofy film effects and tell a somewhat coherent story while doing it. “Now and Then” is a nice song that’ll pull the nostalgia strings of many Beatles fans. But the “Now and Then” video might make you nostalgic for the dud Sgt. Pepper’s movie. Source: Vulture