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☆ Paul McCartney and John Lennon’s sons have released a single together
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-17 | by ( Lianne Kolirin | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +2 min

Yet fans of the Beatles have been taken by surprise by a new single released by the sons of two of the Fab Four - James McCartney and Sean Ono Lennon, who are both musicians themselves. The new single, entitled “Primrose Hill” after a park in north London that offers a panoramic view of the city, was announced by McCartney, son of Paul and his late wife Linda, on Instagram four days ago. Former Beatle John Lennon is photographed with his wife Yoko Ono and son Sean Lennon in New York three years before he was killed. Vinnie Zuffante/Archive Photos/Getty ImagesTogether with a picture of the pair - who look startlingly like their famous fathers - he wrote: “‘Primrose Hill’ is here! And lots of love to Sean Ono Lennon who co-wrote the song.”The picture of the pair used to promote the song is not new.

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LONDON (AP) — Before there was John and Yoko — and after — there was just Yoko Ono. Yet that period forms just a small part of an exhibition opening this week at the Tate Modern gallery in London. One of the largest shows of Ono’s work ever mounted, it includes seven decades of work by the artist, who turns 91 on Sunday. In her landmark 1964 performance “Cut Piece,” she gave gallery visitors scissors and invited them to snip away at her clothes. For an exhibition at New York’s Museum of Modern Art in the 1970s, Ono falsely claimed to have released hundreds of flies soaked in perfume for gallery visitors to find.

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☆ The Beatles Are Still Charting the Future of Pop. It Looks Bleak.
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-21 | by ( Peter C. Baker | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +4 min

In that context, the “Now and Then” movie’s upfront billing of the track as the last Beatles song feels like a two-pronged rhetorical move. But the truth, ultimately, will lie not with any facts inherent to the universe of existing Beatles recordings. If you can make a Beatles single using ideas from two dead Beatles, then you can make one with ideas from three dead Beatles — or even, perhaps, from four. It reminds me of the Beatles without sounding like the Beatles — and why should it, when Lennon didn’t write it for them? But I suspect that, in this late project, the always-innovative Beatles are once again ahead of their time.

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Titled “Now and Then,” the almost impossible-to-believe track is four minutes and eight seconds of the first and only original Beatles recording of the 21st century. But there were technical limitations to finishing “Now and Then.”On Wednesday, a short film titled “The Beatles — Now And Then — The Last Beatles Song” was released, detailing the creation of the track. On the original tape, Lennon's voice was hidden; the piano was “hard to hear,” as Paul McCartney describes it. “Like we would do that anyway.”“This is the last track, ever, that you’ll get the four Beatles on the track. John, Paul, George, and Ringo,” he continued.

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☆ The Beatles’ ‘last’ song ‘Now and Then’ is being released. Here’s what we know
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-02 | by ( Amarachi Orie | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +3 min

CNN —The day has finally come for the worldwide release of what’s been described as The Beatles’ final song, “Now and Then,” featuring the voice of the late singer-songwriter John Lennon. The track featuring the sound of every member of the British rock group will be released at 2 p.m. GMT (10 a.m. It took McCartney and Starr more than two decades to begin working on the song again. “We’re actually messing around with state of the art technology, which is something The Beatles would’ve been very interested in. ‘Now and Then’ it’s probably, like, the last Beatles song, and we’ve all played on it, so it is a genuine Beatle recording,” added McCartney.

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☆ Paul McCartney says ‘last’ Beatles song featuring John Lennon is ‘quite emotional’
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-26 | by ( Alli Rosenbloom | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +2 min

Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr, the last two living Beatles, have “come together” to finish a song that the late John Lennon wrote and recorded in 1970 called “Now and Then.”For McCartney and Starr, hearing the “crystal clear” voice of Lennon on the completed track was a profound experience. Lennon wrote and recorded the song at his home in New York City in 1970. It was later worked on by McCartney, Starr and George Harrison – who died in 2001 – in the mid-90s, and finished by McCartney and Starr this year, over four decades later. The track – coined by McCartney as “the last Beatles song” – features the original vocals recorded by Lennon that were preserved using artificial intelligence. Backing vocals from Beatles songs “Here, There And Everywhere,” “Eleanor Rigby” and “Because” were mixed into the final cut.

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☆ ‘George Harrison’ Review: Why His Guitar Gently Wept
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-21 | by ( D.J. Taylor | Philip Norman | ) www.wsj.com time to read: +2 min

George Harrison (with Eric Clapton at left) performing at the Concert for Bangladesh in August 1971. Photo: Henry Diltz/Getty ImagesThe paradoxes of George Harrison’s career can perplex even the most casual Beatles fans. Grab a Copy George Harrison: The Reluctant Beatle By Philip Norman Scribner 512 pages We may earn a commission when you buy products through the links on our site. One of the most ominous subtexts of “George Harrison: The Reluctant Beatle,” it turns out, is the sense of a man grown old before his time. Hospitalized for six weeks at the age of 13 with nephritis, a martyr to swollen tonsils and on-tour exhaustion, he spent much of his early life being ill.

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☆ What We Saw at New York Bridal Fashion Week
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-19 | by ( Ivy Manners | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

During New York Bridal Fashion Week, held Oct. 10 through 12, designers not only presented their fall 2024 collections, but also showed their support for one another, with some even attending each other’s presentations. Pnina Tornai postponed her event to Nov. 2, but Julie Vino chose to present her collection as a show of “unity, compassion, and the hope for a brighter future,” she said in a news release. Bridal Fashion Week also included a few debuts from up-and-coming designers, like Zoe Rowyn and Soucy. Several designers unveiled new boutiques and showrooms: Amsale and Rime Arodaky opened flagship stores in SoHo, and Julie Vino opened a flagship in Midtown. Nadia Manjarrez opened her first New York showroom in Chelsea, and Mark Ingram Atelier moved to a bigger space in Midtown to mark its 20th anniversary,

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☆ Beatles memorabilia expected to fetch more than $6 million at auction
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-05 | by ( Jack Guy | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +2 min

CNN —A ticket stub from the Beatles’ first concert in the United States and a suit once worn by John Lennon are among more than 100 pieces of memorabilia that are going up for auction in New Jersey. Gotta Have Rock & RollIn all, there are 119 items of memorabilia that are expected to fetch more than $6 million if they sell for around the upper reaches of their estimates. The ticket stub from the 1964 Washington Coliseum show is expected to sell for $4,000-$6,000. A book published in 1989 alleged that Harrison owned Nazi memorabilia and had pictures of Hitler in his home. Sales of Beatles memorabilia always attract a huge amount of interest.

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☆ Ringo Starr says The Beatles would ‘never’ fake John Lennon’s vocals with AI on new song
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-01 | by ( Dan Heching | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +2 min

CNN —Ringo Starr is doubling down about the authenticity of the vocals on the highly anticipated new Beatles song recently teased by former bandmate Paul McCartney. Starr spoke with Rolling Stone for an upcoming podcast, in which he ensured that they would “never” fake the late John Lennon’s vocals for the new track, which instead uses AI to clean up previously recorded snippets. The song will also feature the voice of the late George Harrison, Starr confirmed. And that’s a fact.”McCartney also attempted to clarify last month how artificial intelligence is being used on what he said will be the “final” Beatles song. The music icon, who just finished a spring tour with his All-Starr band, told Rolling Stone that he’s feeling great.

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☆ Opinion: Trump, the hoarder in chief
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-18 | by ( Richard Galant | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +13 min

We’re looking back at the strongest, smartest opinion takes of the week from CNN and other outlets. Photos included in the 38-count indictment of former President Donald Trump and his aide Walt Nauta show bankers boxes stacked in a bathroom and other parts of Trump’s Mar-a-Lago club. Trump has always hung onto news clippings, documents and other mementos,” The New York Times reported. “Trump is chaotic and unpredictable in a way that could lead other Republicans to believe that there is a chance he won’t make it to the convention. As Zelizer noted, “Trump has denied wrongdoing, claiming he is being unfairly targeted.”But “given this unusual context, Republicans have legitimate reasons to think that there could be an upset.

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☆ Opinion: The fifth Beatle is artificial intelligence
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-16 | by ( Opinion Jere Hester | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +5 min

CNN —Who’s the fifth Beatle? But now there’s a 21st century contender for the honor: artificial intelligence. The band took some flak for releasing two songs years after Lennon’s murder in 1980. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band” album with trippy loops and other innovations that changed the course of popular music. But in the right hands — in this case, Jackson and McCartney’s — AI can be a tool that wields magic.

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☆ Paul McCartney says ‘final’ Beatles song coming thanks to artificial intelligence
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-13 | by ( Lisa Respers France | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +1 min

CNN —When it comes to artificial intelligence, Sir Paul McCartney doesn’t sound like he’s willing to just “Let It Be.”In an interview with BBC Radio 4’s “Today” program released Tuesday, the legendary musician and former Beatle was asked about AI and how it’s been used to make his voice sound younger – and to resurrect the voices of fellow band members John Lennon and George Harrison who died in 1980 and 2001, respectively. And he revealed there’s a “new” Beatles tune coming, thanks to the technology. “When we came to make what will be the last Beatles record – it was a demo that John had that we worked on and we just finished it up, it will be released this year – and we were able to take John’s voice and get it pure through this AI,” McCartney said. “So then we were able to mix the record as you would normally do.”While McCartney’s not on the internet much, he said, he’s aware of AI being used to do things like have Lennon sing one of his songs – which he said was “kind of scary.”“It’s something we’re all sort of tackling at the moment and trying to deal with,” McCartney said. According to McCartney, AI was used to isolate Lennon’s voice from a demo track for the Peter Jackson directed 2021 docuseries “The Beatles: Get Back” about the making of the Beatles’ 1970 album “Let It Be.”There’s “a good side and a scary side” to AI, McCartney said, so “we’ll just have to see where that leads.”

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☆ Agent says Salman Rushdie has lost use of eye and hand following August attack
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-23 | by ( The Associated Press | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +2 min

After the attack, Rushdie was treated at a Pennsylvania hospital, where he was briefly put on a ventilator to recover from what Wylie told El Pais was a “brutal attack” that cut nerves to one arm. Wylie told the newspaper he could not say whether Rushdie remained in a hospital or discuss his whereabouts. The attack was along the lines of what Rushie and his agent have thought was the “principal danger ... a random person coming out of nowhere and attacking,” Wylie told El Pais. Wylie told the newspaper it was like Beatles member John Lennon’s murder. In a jailhouse interview with The New York Post, Matar said he disliked Rushdie and praised Khomeini.

☆ ‘John Lennon: Murder Without a Trial’ Review: A Closed Case Reconsidered
▼ + stars: | 1980-12-08 | by ( John Anderson | ) www.wsj.com time to read: +1 min

John Lennon Photo: Apple TV+Murder trials, like funerals, are intended to provide closure—not for the dead, but the living. The murder of John Lennon , much like the Kennedy assassination, deprived a traumatized public of its constitutional means of catharsis—including a public plea and public trial; God, the killer said, had told him to plead guilty. The three-part “John Lennon: Murder Without a Trial,” in a sense, attempts to be the Warren Commission of the ex-Beatle’s death, without magic bullet or grassy knoll. John Lennon: Murder Without a Trial Begins Wednesday, Apple TV+It’s a tall order. Although the series does explore the Nixon administration’s paranoia about the activist Lennon (territory explored more deeply in “The U.S. vs. John Lennon” of 2006) there did not seem to be a government plot involving CIA brainwashing.

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