After a week of build-up, The Beatles have released what’s been billed as their “final song”.
It’s an echo of track one, side one of the first Beatles album 60 years ago, but with two beats of whispery absence where the “three-four” should be. Simple, witty and so sad it hurts.Called ‘Now And Then’, the song has been 45 years in the making - with the first bars written by John Lennon in 1978 and the song finally completed last year.
In terms of the band’s original arc, the effect is to place all three songs in the vaguely delirious mid-1960s zone where, the other three players dutifully following their increasingly self-absorbed leader into a solitary realm of psychedelic detachment.
The mysterious cassette tape, projected onto the wall of the Cavern Club next to John Lennon’s statue, to promote the release of ‘Now And Then’. Coming from a songwriter whose “I” always meant “me”, we can only hear a terrible foreshadowing where the classic uplift into the chorus should be.
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