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☆ At 81, Paul McCartney is worth £1 billion for the first time
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-17 | by ( Eva Rothenberg | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +2 min

Paul McCartney has added another feather in his cap as the United Kingdom’s first billionaire musician, the Sunday Times reported in the 2024 edition of its annual Rich List, published Friday. According to the Times, the 81-year-old Beatles alum and his wife Nancy are worth £1 billion ($1.3 billion), up from £950 million ($1.2 billion) in 2023. Beyoncé earlier this year released her hit album “Cowboy Carter,” in which she reimagined the Beatles’ 1968 song “Blackbird,” originally written by McCartney. McCartney has released some music of his own over the past year: Last November, the Beatles released the chart-topping “Now and Then,” advertised as the group’s final song. McCartney famously sang that he doesn’t care too much for money, but the new album’s release is expected to give the rock star’s net worth another boost.

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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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☆ Paul McCartney reunited with stolen guitar ‘that kicked off Beatlemania’ after 50 years
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-16 | by ( Issy Ronald | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +4 min

CNN —Paul McCartney’s legendary lost guitar will gently weep no more as it was reunited with its owner more than 50 years after it was stolen. He continued to play it once The Beatles had split up but it was stolen in 1972 from the back of a van in Notting Hill, London. “The search for the bass wasn’t just for Paul McCartney, it was for all the fans,” Wass told CNN on Friday. “The evidence along the way would suggest that the thief didn’t know what he was stealing that night,” Scott Jones said. “In a sense it has no value except to Paul McCartney and to every Beatles fan in the world … it’s priceless.”

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LONDON (AP) — Paul McCartney no longer gently weeps for his original bass guitar. “Paul said to me, ‘Hey, because you’re from Höfner, couldn’t you help find my bass?’” Wass said. The thief didn't set out to steal McCartney's instrument and panicked when he realized what he had, Jones said. Its estimated value is based on the fact that a Gibson acoustic guitar Kurt Cobain played on MTV Unplugged sold for $6 million (4.7 million pounds), Jones said. It’s a red alert because the minute you come forward someone’s going to go, 'That’s Paul McCartney's guitar.

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☆ For Joan Armatrading, Classical Music Is Just Another Genre
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-12 | by ( Hugh Morris | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

ARMATRADING WAS BORN on the Caribbean island of St. Kitts in 1950, and moved to Birmingham, England, at age 7. I didn’t really ask anybody’s opinion, which is how I am still.”Some of Armatrading’s earliest experiences with classical music came through movies. “If you have 18 strings or something, and they’re doing that thing, you’re gonna cry,” she said. Armatrading is adamant that, in her Symphony, she just wanted to sound “like Joan,” but she’s also happy for listeners to bring their own associations. This symphony is by no means the first case of a pop artist to engage in classical composition.

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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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The heat outside mirrored the fervor inside, as Vuitton proved, once again, that in the world of fashion, it's an unstoppable force. ACTIVISTS TARGET LOUIS VUITTON DURING PARIS FASHION WEEKJust before Louis Vuitton’s anticipated show, environmental activists from “Dernière Rénovation” sprayed the brand’s Champs-Elysées storefront with orange paint. According to social media, to challenge the luxury brands of Paris Fashion Week and the wealthy attending the specific event. Another proudly showcased the real seaweed – yes, seaweed – that went into crafting a striking 70s macrame dress. Stella’s Sustainable Market showcased her dedication to innovative materials, complemented by English sculptor Andrew Logan’s artistry.

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☆ Global search launched for Paul McCartney's 1961 Höfner guitar
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-04 | by ( Heather Chen | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +4 min

“This is the bass McCartney played … in Hamburg in 1961, at the Cavern in Liverpool and on those first Abbey Road recordings – it powered Beatlemania and shaped the sound of the modern world,” The Lost Bass Project said. All sorts of rumors have emerged about where the bass went and where it could be,” the group said. If you have credible information about the bass, this is your chance to share it and be part of music history,” it added. Heading the Höfner search project is Nick Wass, who worked closely with McCartney’s team and even wrote a book about the missing instrument. “The bass was in need of repairs and so it was sent to a firm in London, early in 1964, who carried these out.

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☆ Have You Seen Paul McCartney’s Lost Bass Guitar? Tips Welcome.
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-04 | by ( Isabella Kwai | More About Isabella Kwai | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: 1 min

Before Beatlemania, there was the distinctive Höfner violin bass — the first guitar that Paul McCartney bought after becoming the bassist for the Beatles. That bass can be heard on some of the band’s most famous hits, including “Love Me Do,” “She Loves You,” and “Twist and Shout.”Mr. McCartney picked up the instrument in a Hamburg music store in 1961, and it accompanied the Fab Four as they rocketed to stunning success, becoming the most famous band in the world. But the guitar vanished eight years later. A new campaign is seeking to find the missing instrument, and hundreds of people have responded, hoping to help solve the decades-old mystery: Where is Paul McCartney’s missing bass guitar?

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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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