Beatles score final Grammy for Now and Then after | Music News

Legendary rock band The Beatles have scored their final Grammy on the 2025 Grammy Awards, however misplaced out on one of the largest awards of the night time.

They’ve received the Best Rock Performance trophy for their final tune, Now and Then, however did not snag Record of the Year.

This was their final shot at profitable the award for the primary time, securing their wins within the 4 greatest classes, however followers of the over-60-year-old band had been simply glad to see them expertise a resurgence of love and recognition.

The Beatles had been final nominated for a Grammy in 1997, profitable all three for their track Free as a Bird and album The Beatles Anthology. 

Fans took to X, previously Twitter, to reward the band for profitable Best Rock Performance, although, with one particular person writing: “Beatles you will always be famous.”

Another added: “55 years since the beatles broke up and beatlemaniacs are still winning,” as a third mentioned: “the only thing i cared abt this years grammys was the beatles im leaving now yall have fun.”

The Beatles maintain the document for probably the most nominations amongst teams within the Record of the Year class.

They’ve competed for the respect 5 occasions now with I Want to Hold Your Hand, Yesterday, Hey Jude, Let It Be, and now Now and Then, however have at all times been overwhelmed.

Winning Record of the Year would’ve given the group their final of the large 4 classes.

Meanwhile, deceased Beatles John Lennon and George Harrison weren’t listed on the band’s Grammy nominations for Now and Then, regardless of being featured on the monitor. Only Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr had been listed.

Lennon, who died in 1980, and Harrison, who died in 2001, will not be eligible attributable to Grammy guidelines for “new recordings” and can not earn an award for “material that has been recorded within five years of the release date.”

Lennon’s exclusion from Now and Then is very arduous since he wrote it.

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The monitor, initially recorded as a demo in 1978, is an apologetic love track, typical of the songwriter’s solo work of the Seventies.

Yoko Ono gave McCartney the demo, which additionally included Real Love and Free As A Bird, the primary tracks The Beatles launched of Lennon’s in 1995-96, marking their first songs in 25 years.

At the time, the band additionally tried to document Now And Then, however the session was deserted as the standard of the recording was thought of too poor to make use of. However, McCartney by no means forgot about it.

While making of The Beatles’ Get Back documentary, Jackson’s movie company developed a piece of software program that allowed them to “de-mix” muddled recordings of overlapping sounds.

The group, together with Giles Martin (son of legendary Beatles producer George Martin) used the technology final 12 months to create a new combine of Revolver.

For Now And Then, the software program was capable of “lift” Lennon’s voice from the unique cassette recording, eradicating the background hiss and hum of electrical energy that had stopped the band from recording it earlier.

McCartney says Lennon’s voice is “crystal clear” on Now And Then.

“It was the closest we’ll ever come to having him back in the room,” mentioned Starr. “Far out.”

“All those memories came flooding back,” added McCartney. “My God, how lucky was I to have those men in my life? To still be working on Beatles music in 2023? Wow.”

“It is a brilliant sort of ending song. It does sound like John’s love letter, almost,” Martin informed Forbes in 2023. “It’s classic John. It’s not like, ‘I miss you.’ It’s, ‘Now and then I miss you.’”

Martin added: “I think—for what it’s worth—I think it sounds like it’s John writing to all of them. That’s what it sounds like to me.”

If Now and Then had received Record of the Year, it will’ve marked a historic milestone for McCartney, finishing his Grammys’ Big Four awards.

He beforehand received Best New Artist in 1965 (with The Beatles), Song of the Year in 1967 for Michelle (shared with Lennon), and Album of the Year in 1968 for Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band.

“It’s a genuine Beatles recording,” McCartney mentioned of Now and Then in a assertion. “In 2023, to still be working on Beatles music and about to release a new song the public haven’t heard, I think it’s an exciting thing.”