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Evening Standard
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Paul Kanareck

The story behind Now and Then: The Beatles' brilliant new track

It was 1994 in New York and Paul McCartney was about to go on stage to induct his erstwhile partner John Lennon into the pantheon of The Rock & Roll Hall of Fame.

Fourteen years after Lennon’s assassination in the same city, the event signified a growing détente between McCartney and Lennon's widow Yoko Ono, the woman many blamed for splitting them up in the first place.

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