Like Lazarus suddenly appearing in Pepperland, Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band are back on the bandstand, their psychedelic Edwardian satin suits dry-cleaned and freshly pressed. Fifty-three years after Let It Be reached number one, the Beatles are finally releasing their final record – Now and Then, an unfinished John Lennon song recorded on a cassette player in his apartment in the Dakota Building in New York in 1979.
2023, then, brings one of the most anticipated releases of the Beatles’ long and endlessly eventful history. Now and Then is the last Beatles song – written and sung by John Lennon, developed and worked on by Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr, and now finally finished by Paul and Ringo over four decades later.
