IN THE END
One of the film’s final scenes finds the Beatles
crowded together in the control room at Abbey
Road, listening to their new music. They’re not
alone. Yoko is there, but so is Ringo’s first wife,
Maureen, head shaking happily in time to the
beat, and Linda Eastman, two months away from
marrying McCartney and joined by her young
daughter from a previous relationship, Heather,
whom McCartney banters and plays with as if he
had been raising her all along. The Beatles and
their lovers smile and laugh and clasp hands. It’s
a moment of joy before darker times, our heroes
caught up in the music — a force stronger than
all their differences, as it remains so now.