This appears to be time number six of me attempting to record this podcast. And by the way, this never happens to me. I usually am one and done. I sit my butt down and I record and I'm done.
This is the sixth time I'm attempting to record this podcast and it's been rough. So stick with me because it's not going to be like my normal podcast, I can assure you. But what I need to tell you is I have a friend named Bruce Reiser who I don't know real well, but for years, he sold me chemicals. Years and years and years.
And I went to his seminars and very smart man. And then he retired. But he knows I'm a Beatles fan because he's such a kind person. He sends me through Facebook messengers, all these Beatles things that I, by the way, just love.
And he sent me one that I just got. And it's an Abbey Road tribute. I want to read a little bit to you before I start the podcast. And it says in 19 after 1981, just after John passed, Paul and Linda invited legendary rockabilly musician Carl Perkins, if you don't know who Carl Perkins is or young, to stay with him at the island of Montstrat, where legendary producer George Martin had a studio.
George Martin, if you do not know, produced all of the good Beatle albums. He was known as the fifth Beatle. Paul wanted Carl's help in recording a song called Get It for his new album, Jug of War. It was just literally weeks after John's murder.
And both George and Ringo came to spend time with him there before that. Is that my cat crying while I'm trying to record time number six? That is my cat. Oh, I'm going on.
We're moving forward. Anyway, the night before Carl was scheduled to leave, a song came to him that summed up his warm feelings about the visit. And Carl was a really good songwriter. The song was so clear in his mind that he didn't even write it down.
Cat's now in here with me. Do not cry. I'm on the air. Anyway, he didn't write it down.
He just played a song called My Old Friend for Paul and Linda, explaining it was his gift for having them as a guest. The next morning, you know, he played this song. And halfway through the song, when Carl sang the words, if we ever meet again, this side of life, in a little while, over yonder, where there's peace and quiet, my old friend, you will think about me every now and then. Paul got up crying and left the room.
And Carl was upset. And Linda explained to him that this is the first time he was able to actually break down after John died. Now would probably be a good time to start the podcast. Hello.
If you don't know, I'm Michael Kroos. This is the Daily Grateful. I want to talk about the new Beatles song, which I didn't want to talk about. And I've now chosen to talk about it.
When it first appeared to me as a post on Facebook, of all places, I listened to it. And my friend Gary Craddock said, I wish the Beatles would stop releasing songs in a post. And I agreed with him. I think it was in 1995, the three remaining mop tops, as I call them, got together.
And they took a couple of John Lennon tapes. Yoko had given them three tapes and said, do with it as you will. And the one, they recorded two songs and released two Beatles songs. And the one that they were really pushing was called Real Love.
I listened to it then. I liked it. It was good. I was wondering why they did it.
Because, you know, it wasn't really a Beatles song. It was a John song that all the other three Beatles got together and said, they truly made it a Beatles song. And, you know, I guess that was true about all of the music. Because there were songs that were Paul songs, like yesterday.
But they were all the Beatles songs. But Paul wrote it. And there were songs like Day in Life that was primarily written by John. But Paul contributed to it.
You know, woke up, got out of bed. That was Paul. That was him collaborating in it. Because there was a dead part of the song.
And he's always writing this other song. And here it is. So I guess I understood that that was a Beatles song. But I thought it was, you know, years after the Beatles broke up.
And these were John tapes that, you know, okay. That's good. There was a third song that they could not use. But they wanted to.
They really wanted to use it. But because of the piano going, that John was playing, they had no way of separating that piano, technically. Separating that piano and getting it to work. To where you could hear John's voice properly.
And George would not, you know, just say, I wish we could use it. We can't use it. Fast forward a million years. George Martin has since passed away.
His son, Giles Martin, is now in charge of all of the Beatles music. As far as production and, you know, redoing all of the Beatles music. With the love and encouragement from all of the remaining Beatles. Which is now down to two.
And they take this song. And using AI and a bunch of snazzy new stuff that they have today. Kyle says, hey, we can do this. So Ringo and Paul got together in the studio.
And they took tape from the original studio where George was there. Trying to make it work. When they realized they couldn't make it work. And they put that all together.
And they did some overdubbing. And they did some stuff. And they released the song. And I heard the song.
And I said, yes, this is nice. It's kind of catchy. But it's all right. Then I watched the official video on YouTube.
The official video of the song. And I sat on my easy chair in my living room. Watching it on my television. And the lyrics.
And the way that it was being sung. And the photography. And the way that they spun all of this together. Oh, man.
There's a part in the video. There's a part in the video. Where they say in the video, now and then, I miss you. And in that video, they switch to a video of John and George playing at a concert.
I believe it was Shea Stadium. I'm not sure. But you see a shot of them playing together. Now and then, I miss you.
I don't know why they grabbed me. But it did. Okay. It did.
And other parts of the lyrics just grabbed me. And, you know, I said, wow. I know it's true. It's all because of you.
And if you go away, I know you'll never stay. And I'm saying, wow. And then I go back to that article I was reading that Bruce sent me. I go back to that.
And the last words in the article was, Paul later explained why he broke down that day. And he said, the last words John ever spoke to him was in the hallway of the Dakota building. And they were, think about me now and then, old friend. And I'm going, holy cow.
Holy, holy, holy cow. The video then goes into pictures of the Beatles regressing in age into their younger years in black and white. And it's hypnotic. It's just absolutely hypnotic how this happens.
How they go back and you see all pictures of individuals, you know, getting younger and younger and younger. And as the song is coming to an end, it pops back to the Beatles on a television stage, all holding their instruments and Ringo on the drums. And they stand up. He stands up and they bow.
It was like a last bow. And then the next thing you see is the set with the Beatles gone. And I realized this was their last bow. This was them wrapping all of this up.
And then as I'm looking at the lyrics, I'm looking at what, you know, was written in that article that Bruce sent me. I realized, I sat on my hands and I realized what this was. This was John's love song to Paul. This was a song that John wrote for Paul.
And it turns out that it turns out that it's the last Beatles song we will ever hear. And it was them wrapping things up after all of these years with a love song to Paul. And with them standing on a stage and bowing. And then they're gone.
I guess I'm just too damn old of a Beatles fan. There's another podcast that I did with them that I never released. I never released it because it was just too damn personal. Maybe I will sometime.
I still have it, but it's never been released. It's a Daily Grateful episode. I recorded it in February. We'll see you next time.