A musician died without learning the secret of a lifetime: she’d played with the Beatles. A mystery project involving Paul McCartney became the Fab Four's final song, and Caroline Buckman never learned what she had been working on.Violist Caroline Buckman was among the musicians invited by Paul McCartney to participate in a secretive Los Angeles recording session in 2022, unaware it was for the final Beatles song to be released 18 months later, titled Now and Then.
Cellist Mia Barcia-Colombo raced across the country. She had a concert in Miami the night before the session, a morning session, three time zones away. As they arrived at Capitol Studios. musicians were given sheet music, under a non-existent song title: Give & Take. Caroline Buckman never asked colleagues for autographs. But she asked McCartney, who signed this sheet music for her, as he did for other musicians in the studio that day.
Her life's geographic course coincided at key points with the Beatles'. In 1960, Erika arrived in West Germany, the same year the Fab Four started playing Hamburg clubs.