Fifty years is a long time, even by the standards of the rise and fall of nations, but in the ever changing world (in which we live in) of pop culture both Bond and theBeatles should long ago have been passed over to the custody of historians for safekeeping.
The group started moving with a bit more alacrity following the 2007 death of Neil Aspinall, thelong time Beatles confidant who ran Apple Corps, for many years.