A DAY IN THE LIFE: THE BEATLES ON MAY 1ST, 1997

THE BALLOT BOX DAY THAT PAUL WOULDN'T LET IT BE

There's something wickedly appropriate about Paul McCartney choosing the day of the British General Election to rear his increasingly well-coiffed head on the telly. As the nation prepared to boot the Tories into the wilderness after 18 years of increasingly desperate rule, there was Macca, the establishment's favourite rebel, doling out carefully measured morsels of hope to those still clinging to the fantasy of a Beatles reunion. The symmetry is bloody marvellous – a nation voting for "things can only get better" whilst simultaneously being reminded of when things actually were better, back when four lads from Liverpool were changing the world one three-minute pop masterpiece at a time.