Ringo Starr says “final” Beatles track assisted by AI “should have been out already”

Paul McCartney has kicked off the Australian leg of his 2023 tour by performing The Beatles’ track ‘She’s A Woman’ for the first time in nearly two decades. Check out the setlist and footage of the show below.The gig took place at the Entertainment Centre in Adelaide last night (October 18), and marked the opening night of McCartney’s solo tour across Australia.Kicking off the new run of live shows – which mark his first performances in over a year – the Adelaide set spanned across nearly three hours and included a mix of his solo hits, as well as discography with The Beatles and Wings.The main highlight of the set came just four songs in, however, when Macca surprised fans with a rendition of The Beatles’ track ‘She’s A Woman’.

“The White Album.”“John and Yoko had got together and that was bound to have an effect on the dynamics of the group,” McCartney explained on the podcast “McCartney: A Life in Lyrics.” “Things like Yoko being literally in the middle of the recording session [were] something you had to deal with.”“The idea was that if John wanted this to happen, then it should happen. There’s no reason why not,” continued the “Yellow Submarine” performer. “Anything that disturbs us, is disturbing.”The British vocalist/songwriter would not let the subject be, adding that other members of the iconic group found the “disturbance” annoying.

Mick Jagger has responded yet again to Paul McCartney‘s comment that The Beatles were a superior band to The Rolling Stones.McCartney made the comments in an interview with Howard Stern in 2020, when he agreed with the host’s assertion that his band were better.“[The Stones] are rooted in the blues. When they are writing stuff, it has to do with the blues.

Paul McCartney has admitted that Yoko Ono‘s presence during The Beatles‘ recording sessions was “an interference in the workplace”.Ono met John Lennon in 1966 and the couple were married from 1969 until his death in 1980.In a new episode of his new 12-part podcast series, McCartney: A Life In Lyrics, McCartney spoke about about the group’s feelings towards Ono, when she was brought into the studio by Lennon.“John and Yoko had got together and that was bound to have an effect on the dynamics of the group,” McCartney told poet Paul Muldoon (via The Independent).“Things like Yoko being literally in the middle of the recording session [were] something you had to deal with. The idea was that if John wanted this to happen, then it should happen. There’s no reason why not.”He continued: “Anything that disturbs us, is disturbing.

Paul McCartney is spilling the tea about The Beatles‘ time spent with singer and activist Yoko Ono, who was married to the late John Lennon.

Reba McEntire has said that the only way she is able to contact her fellow country music legend Dolly Parton is via fax. The singer recently appeared on Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen, and she revealed that despite having worked with Parton regularly, she still has no other way to communicate with her. “Dolly does not text,” she said.

Jimi Hendrix Experience cover of The Beatles ‘Sgt Peppers’ Lonely Hearts Club Band’ has been unearthed and released to the public – listen to it below.The track had its world premiere on the SiriusXM radio show Breakfast With The Beatles, which was guest hosted by former Rolling Stone editor David Fricke. “Here is the sound of the most exciting new group in the world, the Jimi Hendrix Experience, live in rock’s greatest year – and performing the opening theme song from The Beatles’ Summer of Love masterpiece,” Fricke said as he introduced the song.He added: “It is a pleasure and honour to play it, for the first time anywhere, on the Beatles Channel.” The cover serves as the lead song on ‘Jimi Hendrix Experience: Hollywood Bowl August 18, 1967’, which is set for release on November 10.In addition to their re-imagining of ‘Sgt.

Paul McCartney has said that John Lennon still influences his approach to writing song lyrics.The soloist and former Beatles member spoke about his late bandmate on the latest episode of his new 12-part podcast series, McCartney: A Life In Lyrics.“Often I’ll sort of refer… ‘What would John think of this? He’d have thought it was too soppy’. So I’ll change it,” McCartney explained (via Music News).Speaking about the creative chemistry the duo shared, he went on: “That interplay was miraculous. You don’t have this opposing element so much [now].

The Rolling Stones‘ Keith Richards has opened up about how his guitar-playing style has changed over time in part due to arthritis.The legendary guitarist, who’s back playing on the Stones’ forthcoming new album ‘Hackney Diamonds‘, out October 20, spoke about his evolution with the instrument, particularly as he’s gotten older.“The fascinating thing is that the more you play it, the less you know it,” he told the BBC. “It provides you with endless questions.

The Beatles “loved the idea” that Russians secretly listened to their “forbidden” music, Paul McCartney has revealed.The Beatles music, along with other Western artists, was banned from being imported or played in Russia from the 1960s until the 1980s.Speaking on the McCartney: A Life In Lyrics podcast episode about the band’s famous ‘Back in the U.S.S.R.’ track, McCartney opened up about the ban.He said: “Everyone in Russia goes back to the Beatles period and remembers having to smuggle records or it was all very you know, little rooms where you could play and you didn’t want people to know.“You didn’t want the authorities to know that you were listening to this forbidden group, which really, we loved the idea of that – that we were getting smuggled along with Levi’s jeans. This was like true cultural arrival.”When podcast host poet Paul Muldoon suggested to McCartney that “art is dangerous,” the musician replied: “To some people.

Paul McCartney has launched his ‘A Life In Lyrics‘ podcast today (October 4) with the first episode breaking down the creation of The Beatles‘ ‘Eleanor Rigby’.The 12-part series which is based on the best-selling book, is hosted by the poet Paul Muldoon, who wrote the foreword to The Lyrics: 1956 to the Present, will give listeners an unrivalled opportunity to sit in on conversations between McCartney and Muldoon.Episode one sees Macca break down the Beatles track ‘Eleanor Rigby’. He explained where the title for the song came from, sharing that the name for the song came from a grave that he and his late bandmate John Lennon saw.“There is a grave which John and I wandered around endlessly talking about our future,” he recalled in the podcast.

Mac DeMarco has shared his new collaborative song with Ryan Paris called ‘Simply Paradise’ – check it out below.DeMarco has long expressed his admiration for the ‘Dolce Vita’ singer, including in a 2014 Pitchfork documentary called Pepperoni Playboy, in which he cites the Italian artist as an inspiration and dances down the street to his song.Paris saw the video and later invited DeMarco to “do a remix of ‘Dolce Vita’ together”. “Very interested in working with you,” DeMarco responded.

Michaela Zee Richard Gere‘s breakout role in 1980’s “American Gigolo” might have made him a household name, but that didn’t mean the actor wanted to be labeled a “sex symbol,” according to veteran British talk show host Michael Aspel. Speaking to the Daily Mail, Aspel recalled Gere’s appearance on his talk show “Aspel and Company” in 1989.

Ringo Starr tripped over onstage at a gig in New Mexico earlier this month, it has emerged.The Beatles drummer, who was performing with his All-Starr Band on September 20 at Albuquerque’s Rio Rancho Events Center, fell over while making his way back onstage during the band’s encore performance of John Lennon & Plastic Ono Band‘s ‘Give Peace A Chance’.Starr, 83, quickly got to his feet after the fall and joined his band to sing the chorus. There were no later reports of any injuries suffered.Moments after the fall, which you can watch via TMZ, Starr cracked a joke about the tumble.

Beatles drummer Ringo Starr’s “Rewind Forward” will be out on October 13. This is Starr’s fourth extended play release in three years.

Mick Jagger is looking toward the end.

The Rolling Stones have previewed their new collaborative single with Lady Gaga and Stevie Wonder – listen to the clip below.The legendary band announced their 24th studio album ‘Hackney Diamonds’ on September 6 and shared its lead single ‘Angry’. Following on from 2005’s ‘A Bigger Bang’, the record will mark the Stones’ first collection of original music in 18 years.Earlier this month it was revealed that Gaga and Wonder both contributed to a song called ‘Sweet Sounds Of Heaven’.

Rolling Stones member Keith Richards has shared his hot takes on music. In a new interview published on The Telegraph, he says rap music is just "people yelling" and calls pop music "rubbish" in the profile. “I don’t really like to hear people yelling at me and telling me it’s music, a.k.a.

Keith Richards has said that John Lennon and George Harrison would have fitted into The Rolling Stones in a new interview.Speaking to The Telegraph, Richards opened up about The Beatles and the rivalry between the band’s fans in the sixties.Richards explained: “I don’t think John Lennon would have had much problem fitting into the Stones, or George, if you can imagine that sort of thing happening.”He continued: “We were the same generation, and we all loved the same music. When we first heard The Beatles, we were relieved that there was some other band in England on the same track that we were on.

“Scattershot: Life, Music, Elton, and Me” (Hachette) that Elton became friends with a youngwoman named Linda Woodrow, and that he somehow came to see it as more than just a friendship.“At a time when he was unsure of his own sexual orientation and how to distribute his pent-up love, it was extraordinary to watch him approach a traditional heterosexual dance,” Taupin writes. “I truly don’t think he knew what hit him and was just swept up in the accepted normality of it all.”But Elton couldn’t hide the truth of his own sexuality from himself for long.“It all changed with an intervention after Elton, in a staged cry for help, opened all the windows, stuck his head in the gas oven, and awaited a dramatic response,” writes Taupin.“Perhaps due to the unorthodox nature of the attempt, gas on low and an embroidered pillow to rest his head on, sympathy was not forthcoming.