The Beatles are back – and how. A reissue of their albums, digitally cleaned up, is now dominating charts around the world. Today, four decades after their split, the Fab Four occupy nine slots in the US top 10 for CD album sales.

The Beatles are not “more popular than Jesus” – the Bible sells rather well, and consistently. But, to be fair, He did have a two millennium headstart on Them, and from St Jerome to King James, the good book has had the benefit of a few remasterings itself.