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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.
Conventional because her actual debut album, 2021’s excellent “To Hell With It,” squeezed 10 songs into just 18-and-a-half minutes and found the young artist bending pop music’s standards to her TikTok-incubated style: complete songs — with verses and choruses and a bridge — clocking in at 1:48, 1:22, 1:36, with the longest topping out at just over two and a half minutes. But a few months later she dropped “Boy’s a Liar,” one of the biggest singles of this year, the remix of which boosted her into the upper echelons of the charts with no small thanks to Ice Spice, who slipped a saucy rap into the song’s “Pt.
2” remix and still kept the running time at 2:11. “Heaven Knows” is a different story.
The songs and the list of collaborators are longer and bigger — Pink is the lead producer on nearly every song, but joined by two-time Grammy producer of the year Greg Kurstin (Adele, Paul McCartney, Foo Fighters), Danny L. Harle (Caroline Polachek, Dua Lipa), London on Da Track (Young Thug, Summer Walker), Bnyx (Travis Scott, Drake) and others, with “Boy’s a Liar” collaborator Mura Masa present on most of the songs but usually relegated to an “additional producer” role.
At first blush it might seem that she “brought in some big guns,” but a close listen reveals an ambitious young artist with an imaginative wish list of collaborators, wandering farther from her established sound as the album goes on. Surprisingly, the
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George Harrison‘s widow Olivia has shared a “surprising magical” story about how The Beatles‘ ‘Now And Then’ artwork came about.In a video posted on her late husband’s official social media channels, she explained how he once bought a clock featuring the title of their final song.“We were in this store, George saw this clock made out of bits and pieces and it had some Scrabble letters and it just said ‘Now And Then’,” she said. “He was attracted to it for some reason, he just took it off the wall and bought it.
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The Beatles have made music history again with their new single Now and Then.
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).
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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.
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.