McCartney Times

The final album released by The Beatles wasn’t supposed to go out in the form it eventually did. It was almost entirely recorded before the one that preceded its release, Abbey Road, as an attempt to get the band back to where they once belonged, in the mood for making raw-edged rock and roll music. But Let It Be turned out to be a fitting epitaph, a final sigh of acceptance that the group had had a good run and all things must pass.And its low-key opener ‘Two of Us’ is a suitably wistful reminder of what once was in the songwriting partnership to rule them all. Paul McCartney’s tune may have been written for his wife Linda, but its yearning middle-eight and talk of “chasing paper”, his lyrical life partner John Lennon looms large. The lyrics are tragically prophetic, as McCartney sings to Lennon that their memories together stretch back “longer than the road ahead”. A year longer, as it turned out, with the song released just under 12 years after their first meeting and almost 11 years before Lennon was gunned down by Mark David Chapman.

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