I confess, I bought the new single in multiple formats: digital download,
music video, and vinyl. I was saddened/shocked as I called a few local but
sizable record stores to check if they had it in stock, and two of them —
when I asked about a new Beatles release — replied in a tone that implied I
"Now and Then," purportedly the final single release ever for the Beatles,
was at 42 on last week's Official UK Chart--this week it's at number 1, 54
years after their last number 1 (1969s "The Ballad of John and Yoko,"
despite the BBC not playing it because of the lyric "Christ you know it
