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In honor of the Beatles’ final song, “Now and Then,” we’re rerunning this 2016 roundup of the group’s best bootleg tracks.
A convicted debater could plausibly make the case that the Beatles aren’t the best rock band ever. What no one could reasonably argue, however, is that any other rock band has had its existence more closely dissected and analyzed. There are books — thick ones — devoted to tracking each day in the band’s brief existence, and the band’s recording archives have been almost as exhaustively picked over. In the decades since their demise, Beatlemaniacs have been given super-deluxe editions of Abbey Road, Revolver, Let It Be, and The…
