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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

Salon

“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

Guitar World

‘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

The Guardian - UK

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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'

Evening Standard

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

The Guardian - UK

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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

Louder

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 Guardian - UK

'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'.

The Canberra Times

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.

Evening Standard

Everything we know about the Beatles’ Now and Then, the final single the band will release

One final Beatles song is coming soon. Here's everything we know about it.

USA Today Sports Media Group

A new Beatles song – 46 years later

John Lennon recorded "Now and Then" as a rough demo, but technology has revived it for a November release

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The Independent UK

The last new Beatles song, 'Now And Then,' will be released next week

This is it — the last “new” Beatles song

The Guardian - UK

The Beatles: ‘final’ song Now and Then to be released thanks to AI technology

Software developed for Peter Jackson’s documentary Get Back has been used to separate Lennon’s vocals from a demo tape he left to Paul McCartney

Evening Standard

The Beatles have released their last song - Now and Then - 40 years after Lennon recorded it

With the advance of technology, the remaining band members have been able to liberate Lennon's 1979 song and give it new life

AAP

Wellington Town Hall rebuild to cost $NZ330m

Wellington's town hall - which hosted The Beatles in 1964 - will cost ratepayers $NZ330 million to rebuild following earthquake damage.

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Did the Beatles cryptically hint a new, final single is coming soon in 2023?

It sure looks like a new, final Beatles single is coming with all four of them performing on it.

Newcastle Herald

Beatles great Paul McCartney amazes Newcastle fans

39 songs and almost three hours long. McCartney live was epic.

Newcastle Herald

Will McCartney mania bring more big names to Newcastle? The stadium venue manager thinks so.

'I can guarantee we are talking to multiple promoters.'

Newcastle Herald

McCartney, meet McCartney: Young fan hugs his namesake

'I was just surreal. I haven't processed what happened.'

The Independent UK

George Harrison biography shares Beatles star’s sarcastic response after being stabbed 40 times

Musician still found time for comedy after almost dying in harrowing incident

The Guardian - AU

Hot Potato: The Story of the Wiggles review – documentary will wiggle its way into your heart

Film about the Australian musical phenomenon, who are akin to the Beatles for toddlers, is bubbly and insightful, if a tad long

Newcastle Herald

Paul McCartney fans in Newcastle express emotions ahead of show

'It's like seeing Beethoven. Paul is living music history.'

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