'Now And Then' writes final chapter of Beatles music history
Sixty years after the onset of Beatlemania and with two of the quartet now dead, a “new” Beatles song, “Now And Then,” was released in 2023.
More than 60 years have passed since four relatively unknown musicians from Liverpool, England arrived at the EMI Studios in London to record their first single. Within two years of the September 1962 session, the world would know their names, collectively and individually, as the mania identified with them swept the globe. John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and the recently-added Ringo Starr had no idea what was to come in the years ahead. No one could have imagined.
Six decades later, the world still seems to be waiting for the Beatles, just as America had been in late-1963 on the heels of a presidential assassination. The worldwide phenomenon was a combination of music, energy, hairstyle, humor, wit and fun that made young people smile, adults cover their ears and educated professionals search for sociological significance. Their music served as a soundtrack for the 1960s. Their songs transcend time.
The Beatles as a functioning unit would last until 1970 when the four men who had crammed a lifetime into the insanely hectic years of Beatlemania stepped away with a final bow.
Throughout the 1970s, there were offers attempting to bring the group together but the dream was never realized. In some ways, the fact that the Beatles never did reunite only added to the mystique. The closest to a reunion came in 1973 during recording sessions for Starr’s “Ringo” LP. All three of his former bandmates participated, writing songs along with supplying vocals, keyboards and guitar work, though all four were never together in-studio at the same time.
Source: lewistownsentinel.com
