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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Ben Beaumont-Thomas

The Beatles set record 54-year gap between No 1 singles as Now and Then tops UK chart

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The Beatles in 1967 at the launch of the album Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band
The Beatles in 1967 at the launch of the album Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band Photograph: Keystone Press Agency/Zuma Press Wire/Shutterstock

The Beatles have broken UK chart records as they return to No 1 with their “final” song together, Now and Then – their 18th chart-topper in total.

Their 17th No 1 was The Ballad of John and Yoko in 1969, meaning they are now the artists with the longest gap between No 1 singles: 54 years, smashing the record set last year by Kate Bush when she reached the top with Running Up That Hill, 44 years after her No 1 with Wuthering Heights. Neither of the new songs the living members of the Beatles released in 1995 and 1996, Free as a Bird and Real Love, topped the charts.

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