A new Beatles song, seriously?

After the Beatles broke up, the four members of the band pursued different individual careers and after the tragic death of John Lennon in 1980, any hope of reunifying the band vanished. After the early 1970s, and to this day, I have been a staunch fan of the “Fab Four” and like millions, kept on regretting that they had disbanded. 

In 1994, the release of the Beatles Anthology in 1994 gave access to the Beatles' personal archives, including previously unreleased recordings, photographs, and film footage. This allowed the filmmakers to tell the Beatles' story from their own perspective, rather than through the lens of the media and dig out three songs, created by John Lennon in the late 70s, two of which were remastered and re-recorded along with the three surviving musicians. 

What it Beatles music? Not really, in my opinion it was John’s, very consistent with his solo career’s style. Likewise, the recent release of “Now and Then” falls in the same category of pseudo-Beatles music and is more a commercial operation than a way of bringing back that song into the Beatles discography and cosmology. To me that really is a flimsy stretch...