It was to be The Beatles’ final swansong, one last track to bookmark the end of an era, but here we are barely a week since its release and speculation is rife that there is more to come from the Fab Four.

In my review of ‘Now and Then‘, I said and I still truly believe, that Beatles will not go quietly. History tells us such, not just because of the voracious appetite of Paul McCartney to keep working, despite his advancing years, but because of the sheer demand for more from the band that has already given us so much.

Here in the UK, ‘Now and Then’ has taken the top spot on the charts, outselling the rest of the top five combined. That might not seem surprising to some Beatle fans, we are after all used to them breaking records, but this is a very different chart to what we had back in 1995, when the band last released new music.

This is a chart that relies on streams as well as physical copies bought, it is a chart and a top 5 that includes Jung Kook, a phenomenon from his time in BTS and with a massive worldwide fanbase, and Taylor Swift’s re-released smash, 1989, backed by her army of ‘Swifties’, known for streaming her tracks on repeat to boost them up the rankings.

That the Fabs have topped this chart, shows that there is still a huge demand for the Beatles. For the more senior members of the fanbase that could be to recapture some nostalgia, but there is also a growing set of younger fans who were not there for Beatlemania but are flying the flag for the next generation, and for that reason, the future and the market for more releases looks very bright indeed.

Peter Jackson said in an interview this week that he thinks it is “conceivable” that more new music from the band could be developed. Paul McCartney too, in the 12-minute documentary that preceded the release of ‘Now and Then’, said it was ‘probably’ the last Beatles song, suggesting that there is still more in the archives, not only from those Get Back sessions but the hours and hours of tapes that sit in the Apple and MPL archives too.

Then there are legendary recordings such as Carnival of Light, which are still to see the light of day, and Lennon demos such as ‘Grow Old with Me’, also from the same Dakota tapes, as Now and Then, Free as a Bird and Real Love, that could be worked on.

The possibilities are not endless but they are plentiful and given the reception and sales that this ‘last’ song has had, coupled with Paul’s energy and drive and Peter Jackson’s fanboy elbow digging into his side, there is a feeling of never say never about it all.

It has been quipped before that it’s hard to tell what will end first, the world or Beatles re-issues, now the same could be said of ‘new’ Beatles material. As long as there is demand it is hard to see this debate going away while Paul and Ringo are still with us.

We are as fans it seems on a long and winding road, which as the song suggests, ‘Will never disappear’, nor for that matter do we want it to.