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The Beatles‘ ‘Now And Then‘.Martin was approached by surviving Beatles member, Sir Paul McCartney, with a demo for what would be deemed as the “final” Beatles song ‘Now And Then’. The track stems from a demo tape recorded by late bandmate John Lennon and was completed with the help of AI – which lifted the songwriter’s vocals off the initial recording and allowed the surviving members to work with them.Speaking about the process of working on ‘Now And Then’ in an interview with The Sun, Martin said: “Paul played me what he’d started working on from the ’94 demo plus the extras he’d already done — new bass, piano, the guitar solo.

The Beatles have topped the charts with their “final” track ‘Now And Then’ – six decades after they secured their first Number One.Released earlier this month, the track was billed as the last song from the Fab Four and stemmed from an old John Lennon demo tape – completed by Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr with the help of AI.It also came alongside both a short video documenting their time completing the project and a Peter Jackson-directed music video that included previously unearthed footage of the band.Now it has been confirmed that the long-awaited track has gone on to top the charts – 60 years since the band claimed their first Number One track.This feat means that McCartney and co. now boast the longest period between an artist’s first and last Number One single – with their first being ‘From Me to You’ in May 1963 (60 years and six months ago).

Jem Aswad Executive Editor, Music The path from TikTok phenom to career artist is a challenging one, and while Victoria Beverly Walker — a.k.a. 22-year-old British singer-songwriter PinkPantheress — has navigated it far better than most, a big test comes with “Heaven Knows,” her first conventional full-length album.

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The Rolling Stones‘ Keith Richards has revealed that the band have “plenty more material” and will keep making albums until they “drop”.While speaking to SiriusXM NPR (per Music News), Richards said: “There’s plenty more stuff left over from ‘Hackney Diamonds’ to work on. There’ll always be another one until we drop.”He continued: “We can put our feet up for a little bit, but you know.

Dolly Parton has revealed that her ‘Rockstar‘ duet with Stevie Nicks was originally written as a song for Fleetwood Mac.The country icon spoke about her duet with Nicks in a recent interview with The Hollywood Reporter. Here, Parton shared that the two talked a lot about a bit of everything including business and personal stories.Speaking of the track, Parton said: “Our song, ‘What Has Rock and Roll Ever Done to Me’, she [Nicks] said, ‘This a song I wrote back when we were in the heat of our stuff… It’s a song I love but they didn’t think it was good enough to be on a record.’“She said, ‘I have an old demo of it.

Paul McCartney has recalled how he worried that he was “gonna kill” an elderly fan with his on-stage performance of ‘Live And Let Die’.The renowned singer, songwriter, bassist and former Beatle detailed the moment in his A Life In Lyrics podcast – explaining how he began to make his performances more elaborate over time, but was left concerned about how it would impact one particular audience member.According to McCartney, he began introducing flames and pyrotechnics to his live shows many years ago, particularly during his renditions of the 1973 James Bond Theme, ‘Live And Let Die’. However, when he first began implementing the explosions, he looked out at the crowd and was left on edge to see a “90-year-old woman in the front row”.“It’s a big song for us.

Dolly Parton and Hayley Williams have bonded over their shared love of Miley Cyrus.The pair discussed the ‘Flowers’ star in a new conversation ahead of the release of Parton‘s new album ‘Rockstar‘ (out November 17) – her 30-track compilation of new songs and covers of classics like Heart‘s ‘Magic Man’, Prince‘s ‘Purple Rain’, The Rolling Stones‘ ‘(I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction’ and many more.The track list also features 40 guest stars including legends like Paul McCartney, Elton John, Sting, Stevie Nicks, Debbie Harry, Steve Perry, Joan Jett & The Blackhearts and more.Parton most recently teamed up with her goddaughter Cyrus to release a new version of ‘Wrecking Ball’ from the album.During an in conversation feature with Consequence, the Paramore frontwoman told the country star: “Yours and Miley’s voices are perfect together.“You on this song, it feels like a song that you could have written.”A post shared by Dolly Parton (@dollyparton)“Well, I wish I had written that song,” replied Parton. “Miley, I’m crazy about.

moved back to his native England following his departure from “The Late Late Show.” He had his share of controversy over the years regarding his alleged offscreen behavior.CBS is replacing “The Late Show” with “After Midnight,” a new show hosted by standup comedian Taylor Tomlinson that’s expected to premiere early next year.Corden hosted “The Late Late Show” from 2015 to 2023 at 12:35 a.m.

Peter Jackson has suggested that more new music from The Beatles is “conceivable”, following his work on ‘Now And Then’.The filmmaker – who is most famed as the director of Lord Of The Rings – opened up about his time working on the new Beatles track in an interview with The Sunday Times, and suggested that he hasn’t fully ruled out the chance of more new releases in the future.It comes as he worked with surviving members of the group, Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr, to help bring the “final” track to life; by developing a music video for the song using new footage of the surviving members and unearthed clips of the whole band.Before the music video, which was shared last Friday (November 3), he had also worked with the band on the eight-hour docu-series, Get Back, which was released in 2021.Looking back at his time working on both Beatles projects, Jackson said that he thinks it is “conceivable” that more new music from the band could be developed.“We can take a performance from Get Back, separate John and George, and then have Paul and Ringo add a chorus or harmonies,” he told the outlet, reflecting on the series which saw him sift through 60 hours of footage and 150 hours of audio.“You might end up with a decent song,” he added.

Ringo Starr has reflected on the success of The Beatles, and revealed that he initially had doubts that it would last.The comments were made by the iconic drummer in a new interview with The Sunday Times, where both he and bandmate Paul McCartney looked back at the early days of the group.It also came following the two sharing their long-awaited “final” Beatles song, ‘Now And Then’, last week – a track developed from an old John Lennon demo tape, which was savaged with the help of AI and recorded as an official release.Looking back at the early days of The Beatles, McCartney revealed that he initially thought the band would last a decade if they were lucky – surprisingly predicting their split in 1970 – and was therefore caught off guard by how their music has stood the test of time.“When we started, we thought that, maybe, we’d have ten years,” he told the outlet. He also said that he predicted that as he saw it as “the maximum span for a rock’n’roll group” at the time.Chiming in, Starr revealed that he was even less optimistic about the longevity of the rock group, and even had plans to become a hairdresser at the start.“None of us thought it would last a week!” he said.

The Beatles‘ “final” song, ‘Now And Then‘, is on track to become the band’s 18th Number One single.‘Now And Then’ – the last single to feature all four original members – came out last Thursday (November 2), with a Peter Jackson-directed music video featuring newly unearthed footage of the members arriving the next day.The track debuted at number 42 in the UK last week – based on just 10 hours of sales – and is already outselling the top five, according to Official Charts. But it’s now expected to climb to Number One when Friday’s (November 10) Official Singles Chart is announced.It could also mean the band’s first chart-topping single in 54 years, with the last being 1969’s ‘The Ballad Of John And Yoko’.The track came to light thanks to a demo tape recorded by late bandmate John Lennon, completed by Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr along with the help of AI which lifted the songwriter’s vocals off the initial recording.The project was first teased by McCartney back in June when he confirmed that he was working on a new track with the drummer, which would serve as the “final” song of the band’s discography.Starr recently shared that working on the single was “like having John Lennon back”.Jackson’s visual accompaniment also includes archived footage of the Fab Four.

The Beatles released what has been billed their very last song this week, with the aid of filmmaker Peter Jackson, but now the Lord of the Rings director has hinted there may be one or two more gems in the vault.

told The Sunday Times of London.“Paul was going to write, I was going to open a hairdresser’s, George would get a garage,” he continued. “But it went on and then it ended.

Paul McCartney has said the deaths of John Lennon and George Harrison is still a “bitter pill to swallow” in a new interview.Speaking to The Times, McCartney reflected on the passing of Lennon and Harrison and the grief he still feels after the loss of both.McCartney explained: “I like the idea of not letting go of each other…You know, when you have somebody you love so much. In many cases it’s a relative, and even though they go, you don’t want to let go — that’s what people say when somebody dies. They’re in your memory, always in your heart.

Jimi Hendrix is facing the threat of demolition.Watford Gap Services, the oldest of its kind in Britain having opened in 1959, may be wiped out under new plans to renovate the site to fit the era of the electric car.Roadchef, who own the site, have submitted redevelopment plans, with negotiations ongoing with the Department for Transport over extending their lease over the land. If the new plans go ahead, the current buildings will be replaced with multi-storey buildings and hundreds of charging points for electric vehicles.For the first decade of its existence, the Northamptonshire services, colloquially known as the Blue Bear, became a late-night destination for people looking for somewhere to head after the 11pm shutdown in pubs in the capital.One former nightshift worker at the service station collected the autographs of the famous figures that passed through the site, including Paul McCartney, The Rolling Stones, Dusty Springfield and the Eagles.As reported in The Guardian, Dr.

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“Now and Then” — a brand new song by the Fab Four that was was released Thursday — well, the waterworks are about to begin again.The Peter Jackson-directed video, which dropped from the heavens Friday morning, is a flood of feels along a nostalgic, time-traveling trip that, true to the tune’s title, captures The Beatles “Now” and “Then.”When you first see present-day Paul McCartney and the eternally cool Ringo Starr — rocking a Ringo Starr T-shirt because, well, he can — all of a sudden surrounded by their late bandmates George Harrison and John Lennon in all their youthful glory, you’ll be reaching for a box of tissues.And trust us — one Kleenex will hardly be enough when you also see Harrison and Lennon sharing a mike in matching raincoats, Harrison in 1995 (when he laid down his guitar parts for “Now and Then”) trading licks with his “Sgt.

The Beatles’ “final” song, ‘Now And Then’ has been shared – directed by Peter Jackson and featuring newly unearthed footage of the members.

The Beatles‘ ‘Now And Then’ this afternoon (November 2).Fans gathered to listen to the track, the last to feature all four original members, ahead of its premiere at 2pm GMT.Pictures shared by the club, where The Beatles played their first ever gig, on their Instagram showed many fans in tears as the song was played.A statement on the page read: “Now and Then, what a beautiful moment! Hundreds gathered at The Jacaranda to hear The Beatles’ last song ‘Now and Then’ for the first time. 23,039 days have passed since The Beatles played their first gig, yet today people stood in the very same venue and listened to new music by the band.

Paul McCartney has revealed that he kept The Beatles‘ ‘Now And Then’ a secret from the extra musicians who played on the track in the studio.The song, dubbed the “final” single from the Fab Four, came out today (November 2) following the release of an accompanying short film titled Now And Then – The Last Beatles Song.‘Now And Then’ stemmed from a demo tape recorded by the late John Lennon, and was completed with the help of AI technology – which lifted the songwriter’s vocals off the initial recording.McCartney and his former bandmate Ringo Starr built on the demo in the studio along with producers Jeff Lynne and Giles Martin, the latter of whom is the son of late Beatles producer George Martin.At one point in the short film, McCartney recalled the process of adding a string arrangement to the single during a session at the famous Capitol Studios in Hollywood, California.“Giles worked up an arrangement like Giles’ dad would have done in the old days,” he explained.“We had to put the music out on the stands for the musicians, but we couldn’t tell them it was a new Beatles song. It was all a bit hush-hush.

“Now and Then”arrives like a gift from that glorious Abbey Road in the sky on Thursday — despite the fact that John Lennon and George Harrison died in 1980 and 2001, respectively, leaving surviving Beatles Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr to finish the long-buried track on the right side of the dirt.And if you think that it’s the result of some magical mystery trickery of AI defiling the sacred ground that is the Beatles back catalog, thankfully, you’d be wrong.While “the last Beatles song” certainly benefits from advancements in technology that allowed it to finally be released — five decades after Lennon wrote and recorded the demo at his Dakota residence on New York’s Central Park West in the ’70s — “Now and Then” is a real Beatles tune that feels like it somehow got stuck in some mop-topped time warp before the “Imagine” singer was murdered in 1980. It’s a nostalgic trip back to the Baby Boomer glory days of yesteryear.

Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr have shared ‘Now And Then’ – the last track from The Beatles to feature all four original members.The highly-anticipated project was first teased by McCartney back in June when he confirmed that he was working on a new track with the drummer, which would come together as the “final” song of the band’s discography.Titled ‘Now And Then’, the release stems from a demo tape recorded by late bandmate John Lennon and was completed with the help of AI – which lifted the songwriter’s vocals off the initial recording and allowed the surviving members to work with them.Since first sharing details of the song, both McCartney and Starr have continued to tease the upcoming project for months. This included the latter revealing that he thought the project was “beautiful”, and later admitting that working on the single was “like having John Lennon back”.They also hinted that the project was set to arrive imminently last week when they posted images of a cassette tape across social media and internet as well as projections across the Fab Four’s native Liverpool.Last night (November 1), a short film was broadcast on The One Show and the band’s YouTube Channel, which documented the history behind the track and how it came together.Check out the song below.The aforementioned poignant 12-minute film, which you can view here, was also broadcast as part of a series of programmes on the BBC to celebrate the legacy of The Beatles.In the video, McCartney recalls how Lennon first wrote and recorded a demo of ‘Now And Then’ in his New York City home in the late ’70s – featuring just his piano and vocals.

Jem Aswad Executive Editor, Music With all the hoopla around “Now and Then” — which has been officially billed as “The Last Beatles Song” and erroneously described as the legendary group’s “first new song in 50 years” — some reality-checking is in order. Yes, it is a “new” Beatles song in that all four members, including the late John Lennon and George Harrison, play and sing on a previously unreleased composition.

Liam Gallagher has shared his verdict on the long-awaited “final” song by The Beatles – revealing that he finds it “heartwarming”.The track in question is the song that Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr have been working on over recent months, which stemmed from a demo tape recorded by late bandmate John Lennon.Titled ‘Now And Then’, the project was completed with the help of AI – which helped to lift Lennon’s vocals off the demo recording – and is being described by the band as being the “final” ever song to feature all members of the Fab Four.Both McCartney and Starr have been teasing the upcoming project for months and also shared a short film last night (November 1), which documented the history behind the track and how it came together. It is set for a worldwide release today at 2pm GMT / 10am EDT / 7am – marketed as a double A-side with their 1962 debut UK single, ‘Love Me Do’ – combining their first single with their last.Now, ahead of its official release, former Oasis frontman and Britpop icon Liam Gallagher has taken to X/Twitter to share his thoughts on the song, and told his followers that he found it to be an emotional listen.“Now n Then [is] absolutely incredible biblical celestial heartbreaking and heartwarming all at the same time,” he wrote in an initial post this morning.

The Beatles will unveil their 'final song' today (Thursday November 2) - which features all four members and has been 45 years in the making. Now And Then is sourced from a former John Lennon demo which was recorded in the late 1970s.

When surviving Beatles Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr heard John Lennon singing anew on “Now and Then” — a brand new Beatles song that will be released on Thursday — it was like their former bandmate had miraculously come back to life four decades after he was murdered.“And there it was — John’s voice, crystal clear,” says McCartney, 81, in the new short film “Now and — The Last Beatles Song,” which premiered on the Fab Four’s YouTube channel on Wednesday.“It’s like John’s there,” adds Starr, 83.“Now and Then” — the first new Beatles tune since “Real Love” in 1996 — was written and first recorded by Lennon in the ’70s when he was living in the Dakota building on New York’s Central Park West — where he was murdered 43 years ago on Dec. 8, 1980.“I do remember living at the Dakota with Dad and Mom,” recalls Sean Ono Lennon, 48, in “Now and Then.” “There’s this impression that my dad stopped doing music for a while to raise me, which I think is partially true in terms of him not touring and not fulfilling any major record-label obligations.“But he was always playing music around the house.

Chris Willman Senior Music Writer and Chief Music Critic In advance of Thursday’s release of the recently completed “Now and Then,” which is being billed as the final new track that will ever be finished and released under the Beatles‘ name, fans are hearing portions of the song — and more of the story behind it — in a 12-minute mini-documentary, “Now And Then – The Last Beatles Song,” that premiered on Disney+ Wednesday afternoon. The doc includes footage from the 1995 recording session in which Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr and George Harrison first had a quickly aborted go at adding parts to a John Lennon demo that had been supplied to them for Yoko Ono.

The Beatles‘ “final” song ‘Now And Then’ has been shared.Now And Then – The Last Beatles Song written and directed by Oliver Murray, was aired on the The One Show on BBC One and YouTube tonight.The poignant 12 minute film, which you can view below, was broadcast as part of a series of programmes on the BBC to celebrate the legacy of The Beatles.Paul McCartney introduced the film ahead of its airing. “Hello, I’d like to introduce you to a short film which tells the story of how me, John, George and Ringo came together to record our last song.

Dave Grohl has released an expanded deluxe edition of his memoir, The Storyteller: Tales In Life & Music.First released in 2021, the original version of the book recounted the Foo Fighters frontman’s life and music career, from his origins in the suburbs of Washington, D.C. to his experiences touring from the age of 18.Now, an expanded version of The Storyteller, which hit bookshelves yesterday (October 31) is said to include a variety of additional and never-before-seen content.The Storyteller’s deluxe paperback edition includes a first-person essay about Grohl’s philosophy on creativity, and a series of writing prompts aimed at sparking readers’ own creative pursuits.The updated memoir also provides insight into the genesis and songwriting behind four Foo Fighters songs, and how Grohl’s relationship to these songs has evolved over time.Elsewhere, the new edition features a specialty playlist that Grohl listens to while cooking or driving, and a recount of the musician’s first time meeting Paul McCartney – previously an audiobook exclusive.These insights add to the already expansive list of experiences detailed in The Storyteller’s original version, which described run-ins with the likes of Elton John, Pantera and Josh Homme, among many others.The memoir also touches on Grohl’s time as a member of Nirvana, an experience he later said he was “scared to write” given the sensitivity around frontman Kurt Cobain’s death.

The Rolling Stones have become the first act to have top 10 albums in the United States in every decade since the 1960s.Their new album ‘Hackney Diamonds’ entered the Billboard 200 chart at Number Three this week (October 31), extending the band’s record as the artist with the most top 10 albums of all time, with 38 in total.In their home country, The Rolling Stones already held the record for the artist with number one albums in the most decades. In 2020, a re-issue of their 1973 album ‘Goats Head Soup’ reached the top spot, marking number ones in six separate decades, although they did not get a chart-topper in the 2000s in the UK.‘Hackney Diamonds’, which was released on October 20, also recently reached the top of the UK Albums Chart, their 14th Number One in all.

Beatles song.The highly anticipated track titled ‘Now And Then’ was made after both surviving members, Ringo Starr and Paul McCartney, joined forces once again to make the last-ever track to feature all four members of the band.It was made using previously recorded demos from John Lennon, salvaged with the help of AI technology, and it is set for global release at 2pm GMT this Thursday (November 2).Now, it has been confirmed that the new song will come with an official music video, directed by Peter Jackson and comprised of archived footage of the Fab Four.Made alongside Apple Corps Ltd., Capitol and UMe, the project will mark the first music video the filmmaker has ever worked on, and follows on from his work on the 2021 documentary series about the band titled The Beatles: Get Back.“When Apple asked me to make the music video, I was very reluctant – I thought my next few months would be a hell of a lot more fun if that tricky task was somebody else’s problem, and I could be like any other Beatles fan, enjoying the night-before-Christmas anticipation as the release of a new Beatles song and music video approached,” he said in a press release, explaining how the project arose.“To be honest, just thinking about the responsibility of having to make a music video worthy of the last song The Beatles will ever release produced a collection of anxieties almost too overwhelming to deal with,” he added, saying that he later used the lack of relevant footage of the members as an excuse to try and shy away from the project.“A Beatles music video must have great Beatles footage at its core. There’s no way actors or CGI Beatles should be used.

Ringo Starr has opened up about the “emotional” experience of creating The Beatles‘ upcoming “final” song ‘Now And Then’.The legendary drummer teamed up with his former bandmate Paul McCartney to make the last-ever track to feature all four members of the band, with the help of AI technology. It’ll be released globally at 2pm GMT this Thursday (November 2).John Lennon first wrote and recorded a demo of ‘Now And Then’ with just his piano and vocals in the late ’70s.

Keith Richards has said that recording on the latest Rolling Stones album with Paul McCartney felt “like the old days.”McCartney recently appeared on the Stones’ new album track ‘Bite My Head Off’ playing bass.Speaking to Matt Wilkinson on Apple Music 1 in a new interview about the collaboration, Richards said it reminded him of the “old days”.“I felt that it was bloody time…I’ve known Paul for 60 years, just about. Although him and John [Lennon] did do a few backup vocals with us in the ’60s.

Jenelle Riley Deputy Awards and Features Editor When he first began imagining his one-man show “The Movement You Need,” Brendan Hunt had a few challenges. He wanted to tell the story of his complicated relationship with his late mother and how they were united by the legendary rock band the Beatles. He wanted the show to have a universal appeal, even if you knew nothing about the Beatles.

BBC has announced that it will be broadcasting a series of programmes to celebrate the legacy of The Beatles.The new itinerary from the broadcaster comes following the recently shared details of the band’s “final” song – which is set to arrive next week and will be the last to feature all four members.Titled ‘Now And Then’, the project was completed by Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr with the help of AI, and is comprised of past demo recordings of John Lennon, which the surviving members salvaged and used to make a new song.To celebrate the forthcoming release – which the band teased with an image of a cassette tape across social media and internet as well as projections across the Fab Four’s native Liverpool – the BBC has also announced that it will be showing a range of programmes dedicated to the rock veterans.These include an extended edition of The One Show on BBC One, set to be shown next Wednesday (November 1). Shown between 7pm and 7:45pm, it will see BBC Radio 6 Music’s Lauren Laverne introducing and commenting on the exclusive UK TV broadcast of Now And Then – The Last Beatles Song – a poignant short film, written and directed by Oliver Murray, which tells the story behind the track.Similarly, a new podcast series from BBC Radio 2 and BBC Sounds titled Eras: The Beatles will be broadcast to celebrate the release.