Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr would never have believed that the Beatles would have such a journey. While the whole Earth recently had the pleasure of finding the voice of John Lennon on Now and Thenthe unreleased title of the four boys in the wind made possible by AI, the two surviving musicians still find it hard to believe that their music has remained so popular.
“When we started, we thought we would maybe have ten years,” Paul McCartney recalled in an interview with Sunday Times. It was the maximum lifespan for a rock’n’roll band. »
As for Ringo Starr, he remembers very well the plan Bs that he and his acolytes had planned for the post-Beatles era.
A novelist, a hairdresser and a mechanic
“Paul wanted to write, I was going to open a hair salon, and George would have opened a garage,” assured Ringo Starr, forgetting to specify what John Lennon had planned, or even if he was thinking about the future.
But as everyone knows, the success of the Beatles only grew until their separation in 1970 and does not yet seem to be fading. Moreover, a new edition of their compilation Red and Blue has just been released, on which there is, among other additions, Now and Then.