Recording "Now And Then"

From (71) Paul McCartney new 2026 album “The Boys Of Dungeon Lane”* | Page 344 | Steve Hoffman Music Forums:

The following information was documented by Apple and MPL given to Matt Hurwitz to make the full chronology of the recording:

So Giles sent Bruce Sugar, Ringo’s own in-house engineer at his Rockabella West studio, in his home in Beverly Hills, the complete Pro Tools session for the song, as it stood, onto which he recorded Ringo’s new drum part on Sunday, April 9, 2022. The two also recorded Ringo’s vocal, heard in the chorus, alongside Paul’s, that day.

“We have it set up in there, we didn’t change anything,” says Bruce. “That original track from ’95 was stiff. It didn’t swing, like Ringo normally does. So he took the same approach he always has. He listened to the song a few times, to assimilate it, and then put down what he thought was the best track,” taking two or three passes, as he normally does, from which Sugar created a comp track. “Typically, it’s his first take that we use. His instincts are so great. He knows what Paul’s gonna do. He played it, and I sent it on to Giles. I offered to tweak anything Giles needed, but they went with what we had. And that’s what you hear.”

Thanks to the leaked video we know that Ringo also recorded the tambourine that day and that’s it, no further contributions from Ringo to the song except for the music video almost a year later (also filmed in LA not in Sussex). What’s NOT leaked on the video is Ringo’s vocal recording.

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