Lost Beatles song leaked on the Internet???

Hey, have any of you heard that new lost, unreleased song from The Beatles in the past few months? Hmmm...well, I've heard it...at least I think I have.

Putting into context...back in 1995 the then-three remaining Beatles (Paul, George, and Ringo) got together with ELO lead singer/producer Jeff Lynne to resurrect three lost demo tapes recorded by the late John Lennon in the late 1970s--"Free As A Bird", "Real Love", and "Now and Then", with embellishment and new vocals and instrumentation by the then-Three-tles, with Lynne co-producing. While we've all heard the Beatles' version of "Bird" and "Love", we never did hear that third song, "Now and Then", which was to have been scheduled for release on "Anthology 3". The Beatles did start work on it, but apparently were never satisfied with the result. For one, John's original demo had a humming noise that somehow even today's technology couldn't fix (remember, he recorded this on cassette, using crude technology of the times).

Of late, there has been talk of the now-two surviving Beatles (Paul and Ringo) and Yoko Ono showing interest in finally releasing that third "lost" Beatles song. In the meantime, there's an MP3 out on the internet purporting to be the Beatles unreleased version of "Now and Then". I have listened to it, and to me it sounds authentic like the Beatles actually did it. However, it has been said that this MP3 mix is actually the work of someone else, maybe some Beatles fan who was able to somehow copy the sound of the previous two Beatles Anthology songs, while ripping the vocals of several Beatles songs, such as the bridge to the "Abbey Road" track "Because" (if you do happen to find this MP3, it is easily detectable in "Now and Then"'s bridge).

Yes, I have heard this MP3, as well as several fan-made videos of the purported Beatles version of "Now and Then" on the Internet, and personally I cannot tell the difference between the Beatles sound and that of a clever fan. One can detect a touch of a Carrie Underwood sound in this MP3.

If infact this is the actual lost Beatles song from 1995, then this serves as a fitting coda to a legacy that has endured for almost five decades, and I not need explain it in a short blog. On the other hand, I personally would like to see this officially released by the band in some form, especially when we're on the edge of the Beatles catalog finally being issued on iTunes.

And Beatlemania goes on...