The Beatles have made music history again with their new single Now and Then. The song has topped the charts in the UK, making the band the act with the longest ever gap between their first and last number ones.
Sixty years after their song From Me to You sat at number one, Now and Then has made it to the same position. Sir Paul McCartney told the BBC: “It’s blown my socks off!” And the BBC reports that the tune is also this century’s fastest selling single on vinyl.
And, with McCartney aged 82 and the band’s drummer Ringo Starr 83, they are also the oldest band to hit the top spot. The song emerged from a demo written by John Lennon back in 1978, two years before his murder in New York.
His widow Yoko Ono later gave the tape to McCartney, but audio technology wasn’t adequate then to separate Lennon’s voice from the background noise, so the song was discarded from the surviving Beatles’ 1990s collaboration.
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