Lancashire journalist Nigel Pickover celebrates the release of Now And Then by The Beatles, saying “the magic and gloss of the Fab Four is undiminished by the passage of time”.
Growing up near Blackpool on the Lancashire coast, magical events were never far away in the halcyon days of the early 1960s. How could a seven-year-old resist majestic Blackpool Tower and the glitz and glamour of the nearby Golden Mile, with the colourful tangerine shirts and excitement of top division Blackpool FC so close by. Or the special trains hauled by powerful locomotives which roared hundreds of thousands of holidaymakers to Britain’s premier resort.
We all had make-believe instruments – I was Paul and used a tennis racquet as bass guitar, remembering to play it left-handed. Our Fab Four knew all the words and sang our hearts out, dispersing only when the ‘pop van’ called in to our cul-de-sac. Through the magical mists of musical time came 2pm today and the release of Now And Then. In a second I was back on that wall clutching my imaginary guitar.
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