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Sara Keating: New Beatles single emerges from the mists of time
A posthumous collaboration using new technology sees the Fab Four come together to record Now and Then from a demo John sang on in the 1970s
In 1956, at the grand age of 14, Paul McCartney wrote his first song, a confident, bouncy romantic tune called When I’m Sixty-Four. A decade later, he refined the lyrics and melody with his songwriting partner John Lennon, and it was recorded with the by-then world-famous band The Beatles, for the Sergeant Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band album.
Despite McCartney’s youth at the time of his original inspiration, the subject of his first song was ...
