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"John Lennon was definitely my favourite Beatle... Paul McCartney embarrasses me:" Why The Beatles meant so much to Nirvana's Kurt Cobain, and changed his life forever

Dave Grohl might be good friends with Paul McCartney, but for Kurt Cobain, John Lennon was the Beatle who truly mattered, or so he claimed

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The Beatles - Now and Then: FabFilter’s Pro-Q plugin becomes an unexpected star of new short film that tells the story of the band’s last ever song

“There it was, John’s voice - crystal clear,” says Paul McCartney, as we get to hear the results of Peter Jackson’s AI-assisted audio restoration

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How AI helped us hear the "final" Beatles song: "It's the closest we'll ever come to having John back in the room"

AI-powered stem separation software was used to lift John Lennon's vocals from a demo tape to create the new version of Now And Then, released today

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‘A huge event’: excitement as the Beatles’ final song Now and Then approaches release

AI-enhanced song released at 2pm GMT today, but Beatles experts are divided over how effectively it could capture the band’s spirit

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“This was the Prime Minister we were dealing with, and we were very naughty boys:" a story of The Move, acid, axes and a 55-year-old political scandal

Roy Wood, Trevor Burton and Bev Bevan look back at The Move, the psychedelic pioneers who paved the way for the Electric Light Orchestra

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"I jammed with Hendrix and Clapton in a loft in New York": Roger McGuinn's stories of John Lennon, Bob Dylan, Jim Morrison and more

The Byrds' Roger McGuinn played with Jim Morrison, was part of Bob Dylan’s Rolling Thunder revue, gave John Lennon granny glasses and Brian Wilson speed, and he's got some tales to tell

Louder

The Beatles launch 12-minute Now And Then film as anticipation grows ahead of the release of their "last ever" song

The Now And Then film tells the story of the decades-old cassette that's the basis of the new Beatles song

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See the amazing Beatles’ Now and Then documentary all about recording their final song

See the documentary about the release of the Beatles' final song on Thursday, Nov. 2 2023.

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Now and Then — The Last Beatles Song streaming on Disney Plus, Max

Now and Then — The Last Beatles Song is now available on Disney Plus and Max ahead of the song and music video release.

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"I said, 'I wish Sting was here', and they said 'he is, he’s here on holiday!'": Mark Knopfler, George Martin and more on 10 years, 70 albums, massive hit singles, a hurricane and a volcano – the incredible story of AIR Studios Montserrat

The Police, Dire Straits, Paul McCartney, Stevie Wonder and Duran Duran are just a few of the AAA names who enjoyed the most idyllic of recording studios, but it didn't end well for this particular AIR

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‘Sex is bad. Music is the best substitute’: Lawrence Wright, the mogul who kickstarted London’s pop industry

A Cumbrian mining disaster ended up being the catalyst for the publisher to set up shop in Denmark Street, and make it the home of British songwriting

The Guardian - UK

John Lennon’s murder to be explored in ‘definitive’ TV docuseries

The three-part Apple TV+ show will be narrated by Emmy winner Kiefer Sutherland

The Independent UK

"I didn't think it would be the last one. And nothing was said to indicate that, at least not to me": Beatles engineer Geoff Emerick on the recording of Abbey Road, track-by-track

RECORDING WEEK 2023: A classic interview with the band's late chief engineer – "You could really see the joy in their faces as they played; it was like they were teenagers again"

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Final Beatles song is "quite emotional"

The song features the vocals of the late band members John Lennon and the guitar-playing of George Harrison

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“In my mind, we could be like the Yardbirds in those rare times when you had Jimmy Page and Jeff Beck together. That’s what we wanted Aerosmith to be”: Joe Perry reflects on 50 years of America’s greatest rock band

In this exclusive interview, Perry looks back at every era of the rock institution: how their rapid rise ultimately took its toll, why Van Halen caused him to quit in the ’80s, how he and Steven Tyler reconciled their differences, and why he finds himself playing Strats more than Gibsons

The Guardian - UK

‘Earliest known film of the Beatles’ to feature in Peter Jackson-directed music video

Director makes his first ever music video for Now and Then, the ‘final’ Beatles song combined from 1995 sessions and a late-70s John Lennon demo

Evening Standard

Exclusive: film director Peter Jackson tells us how he made The Beatles' last music video

As the band releases Now and Then, their last single, the filmmaker talks us through the process – and how he never actually agreed to do it at all

Evening Standard

Peter Jackson's music video for the last ever Beatles' song Now and Then to premiere on Friday

It's the Lord of the Rings director's first foray into music videos, and he was initially 'reluctant'

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A Northern Wind: Britain 1962-1965 by David Kynaston review – cheerfulness through the gloom

A government clinging on, railways in crisis… This latest volume in the social historian’s mighty history of postwar Britain may sound horribly familiar – but at least there was the Beatles

The Guardian - UK

Real Love for Bellingham as magical history tour hits top notes in clásico

Astonishing season soared still higher at Barcelona, with a muted response to his equaliser just a prelude to late ecstasy

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"I’d heard this one thing, Smoke On The Water or something. But I’d never actually seen them": the night an ex-Beatle gatecrashed a Deep Purple show for an impromptu jam

At a gig in Sydney in 1984, Deep Purple were joined by surprise guest Arnold Grove –aka former Beatles guitarist George Harrison

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Rock biographer Philip Norman: ‘It took me years to understand the paradox of George Harrison’

After books on Lennon and McCartney, the author turns to the contradictory ‘quiet Beatle’ – whose acid tongue and sexual buccaneering coexisted with mantras and prayer wheels

The Guardian - UK

Here, there and everywhere: why the world is still crazy about the Beatles

Now and Then may be the band’s final song, but the appetite for books, exhibitions, films and TV series about the Fab Four seems never to wane

The Canberra Times

'We wanted fame... it wasn't like it was thrust on us'

Paul McCartney says 1964 was 'a year in which a lot of things changed'.

Evening Standard

OPINION - Why Taylor Swift is bigger than The Beatles (but smaller than the French economy)

If you want to annoy an economist, try mixing up stock and flow. This is a mistake commonly made even by business journalists (though not Jonathan Prynn, of course) when attempting to describe the value of large companies.

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