Beatles plan a new single

Yes, two of them are dead and one of them is Ringo Starr, but the rest of the Beatles is apparently putting together some Frankenstein-style "new Beatles single". Jeff Lynne is going to produce it:

"Paul said that he felt he had one great song left in him. He's always been the most uncannily intuitive person and it looks like that song has finally arrived."

Apparently, it's going to be based on bits of Now and Then, which John Lennon had scribbled down somewhere. Now and Then - do you understand the poignancy?

It's lucky the pisspoor Free As A Bird and Real Love have already, respectively, ploughed up the band's legacy and reduced any sense of expectations beyond the point of 'fearing it'll be bad', so it's not going to be quite the crushing disappointment it could have been.