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“I don’t want the old blues to die – if they do, I’ll be dead, too”: John Lennon, Eric Clapton and Ronnie Wood all followed in his footsteps of Big Bill Broonzy, the blues pioneer with a guitar style that’s impossible to copy

William ‘Big Bill’ Bronzy picked up a guitar in Chicago around 1920, and became the first of the original blues masters to tour Europe. His powerful voice and unique country-blues guitar style would shape the future of the genre in the US and the UK

Guitar World

The Lost Weekend: A Love Story review – vivid snapshot of Lennon’s dysfunctional liaison

Documentary about May Pang, the woman with whom John Lennon had an affair during his marriage to Yoko Ono, reveals that Ono was pulling the strings

The Guardian - UK

How AI helped The Beatles recover decades-old music — and how you can do it too

The Beatles made headlines recently for using AI tools to recover decades-old recordings and release a new song. Here's how they did it, and how you can do basically the same thing using free tools.

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André 3000's comeback, Beatles hit No. 1

The rapper is back with an album solely focused flute flute-playing but he's not the only one having a resurgence

Salon

Édith Piaf’s voice re-created using AI so she can narrate own biopic

In-development film comes after controversy around the re-creation of late stars’ voices, such as Anthony Bourdain

The Guardian - UK

The Beatles make UK chart history with number one after 54 years

The last Beatles song was released just eight days ago

The Independent UK

The Beatles make UK chart history with number one after 54-year gap

Now And Then is the group’s 18th chart-topper in the UK.

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The Beatles set record 54-year gap between No 1 singles as Now and Then tops UK chart

Paul McCartney says success of band’s ‘final’ song together has ‘blown my socks off’, as it becomes the fastest-selling vinyl single this century

The Guardian - UK

“Rock’n’roll is dead. It’s a toothless old woman. It’s really embarrassing”: how David Bowie turned his back on glam rock to make his ‘plastic soul’ masterpiece Young Americans

Drugs, madness and an ex-Beatle – the crazed story of David Bowie’s 1975 album Young Americans

Louder

Yoko Ono: her 20 greatest songs – ranked!

As her album Feeling the Space turns 50, we appraise the best of a bold and often underestimated artist

The Guardian - UK

Yoko Ono helped save Beatles' Holy Grail

A detailed account of how one woman refused to throw out road manager Mal Evans' invaluable records

Salon

The 50 best collaborations in rock

Guest spots, duets, team-ups and mashups – we take a look at the weird, wonderful world of the rock’n’roll collaboration…

Louder

What if John Lennon had written Now And Then with The Beatles in 1964? A musician using AI has the answer

And it's good!

MusicRadar

"I said, 'we've added a double wiflocated sploshing flange.' John laughed and said 'let's flange again then'": George Martin and John Lennon thought they'd invented flanging but the whole debate has now taken an odd turn

We discussed whether John Lennon and George Martin really discovered flanging a few months ago. Now the story has taken a wiflocated twist…

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The Guardian - UK

‘It will change the way we think about their story’: mythical archive of ‘first Beatles historian’ comes to light

Mal Evans neglected his family life to go on tour with the Beatles, amassing a priceless trove of ephemera and diary entries. Long after his untimely death, a new book has finally uncovered it

Salon

More Beatles music is "conceivable"

"With the world in the state it is, we need the Beatles to appear again"

Creative Bloq

The Beatles' new music video brings us into troubling territory

I'm emotional for all the wrong reasons.

MusicRadar

Is Now And Then really the ‘last’ Beatles song? Get Back director Peter Jackson says it’s “conceivable” that more could be made with the help of AI

“You might end up with a decent song but I haven’t had conversations with Paul about that,” he says

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Louder

"When we played it to people, some cried, some said, ‘Jesus Christ, it’s a Beatles record!’": Paul McCartney on the reaction to The Beatles' final song, Now And Then

Paul McCartney reflects on the Beatles legacy, and the reaction to the group's final song

Louder

The Beatles look set to score their first UK number one single in 54 years with Now And Then

The Beatles' final song, Now And Then, is on course to become their 18th number one single in the UK

The Guardian - AU

More new Beatles music ‘conceivable’ after Now and Then, Peter Jackson says

Get Back director who helped with AI technology that isolated John Lennon’s vocals in new single says there are more song fragments in archive

The Independent UK

The Beatles’ Now And Then on track to become band’s 18th number one single

It would also be their first chart-topper in 54 years, with the last being The Ballad Of John And Yoko in 1969.

The Independent UK

Paul McCartney says death of John Lennon is still ‘bitter pill to swallow’

Musician recalled fond memories of hitchhiking with his bandmates, following the release of Beatles song ‘Now and Then’

TechRadar

ICYMI: the week's 7 biggest tech stories, from The Beatles to new MacBook Pros

It's been another big week in tech. Been a bit busy? We've whizzed it all up into this news-flavored milkshake.

The Conversation

Now and Then: enabled by AI – created by profound connections between the four Beatles

In 2023, to still be working on Beatles music … to release a new song the public haven’t heard, I think it’s an exciting thing.

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