The Beatles rehearsed George Harrison's For You Blue in the recording studio from The Beatles: Get Back sessions. The 2021 documentary series was directed and produced by Peter Jackson. The film covers the making of the Beatles' 1970 album Let It Be (which had the working title of Get Back) and draws largely from unused footage and audio material originally captured for and recycled original-footage from the 1970 documentary of the album by Michael Lindsay-Hogg, of which this film is a re-edit. The docuseries has a total runtime of nearly eight hours, consisting of three episodes, each of duration between two and three hours covering about one week, together covering 21 days of studio time.

Also co-produced by Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr, Yoko Ono, and George Harrison's wife Olivia Harrison, the series is presented by Walt Disney Studios in association with Apple Corps and WingNut Films. Get Back premiered with three consecutive daily releases on Disney+ beginning on 25 November 2021. A portion of it, titled The Beatles: Get Back – The Rooftop Concert, was given a theatrical release in IMAX theatres across numerous US cities on 30 January 2022. It was then released internationally between 11 and 13 February 2022. The Beatles: Get Back was released on DVD and Blu-ray on 12 July 2022.

On November 2, 2023, "Now and Then" was released on streaming platforms. In June 2023, Paul McCartney told the BBC that artificial intelligence was used to extract John Lennon’s voice from the original recording and separate it from the piano on the demo.

The discovery was made by Peter Jackson during his making of 2021’s “The Beatles: Get Back.” Jackson was "able to extricate John's voice from a ropey little bit of cassette and a piano," McCartney told BBC radio. "He could separate them with AI; he'd tell the machine 'That’s a voice, this is a guitar, lose the guitar.’"

Ringo Starr clarified the track does not use artificially created vocals of John Lennon, who was killed in 1980, and the band would "never" use AI to fake Lennon's voice.

Jackson added vocals from lead guitarist Harrison, recorded before he died in 2001, will also appear on the farewell record. "It's the final track you'll ever hear with the four lads. And that's a fact," Starr said at the time.

Jackson’s sound team employed similar technology when working on the soundtrack of the “Get Back” documentary, isolating instruments and voices during the band’s conversations.

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