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10/31/23-Beatles new track coming!

source: music-news.com Sir Ringo Starr says the new Beatles song ‘Now and Then’ is the “closest we’ll ever come to having” the late John Lennon back. The 83-year-old drummer became very emotional whilst working with Sir Paul McCartney - the only other surviving member of the iconic band - on their new Artificial Intelligence-assisted song. The track is a demo recorded by Lennon - who was killed in December 1980 […]

todayOctober 31, 2023

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10/2/21-Clapton a Beatle?

Source: music-news.com The Beatles almost sacked George Harrison and planned to replace him with Eric Clapton after the guitarist temporarily left the band. The news comes from unearthed interviews with band member John Lennon recorded in January 1969, as reported by the Daily Mail. In the tape, he says: "[Harrison is a ]festering wound and we allowed it to go deeper and we didn’t even give him any bandages." The […]

todayOctober 2, 2021

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09/15/19-Beatles news

Source: music-news.com Former Beatles bandmates Ringo Starr and Paul McCartney have reunited to record a John Lennon song. "Grow Old With Me" will feature on Ringo's upcoming album, "What's My Name" released on 25 October (19). "I really wanted Paul to play on it, and he said yes," Starr explains, revealing the inspiration to record the tune came from Jack Douglas, who produced Lennon and Yoko Ono’s "Double Fantasy" album. […]

todaySeptember 15, 2019

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3/10/19-Lost Lennon Films

Filmmaker Michael Epstein couldn't believe his luck when Yoko Ono gave him access to hours of forgotten footage of her life with John Lennon. The singer and performance artist decided it was time to show fans the home videos shot at the couple's Tittenhurst Park home in England and in New York in 1970 and 1971, and called in Epstein to sort through it. The result is John & Yoko: […]

todayMarch 10, 2019

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2/8/19-Jackson & Harrison!

A lost radio broadcast featuring Michael Jackson and George Harrison chatting about the stories behind their songs will air in the U.K. this weekend as part of a BBC documentary. The late stars sat down to review the week's new releases as part of DJ David 'Kid' Jensen's long-running BBC Radio 1 show "Roundtable" in 1979, but only a small clip of their 90-minute chat aired. A rare recording of […]

todayFebruary 8, 2019

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8/30/18-"My Sweet Lord" #1

Music licensing company PPL has produced a Top 20 chart of the most played tracks in the 21st century released by Apple Records to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the record company founded by The Beatles. Apple Records released its first ever single in the UK, The Beatles’ ‘Hey Jude’ on 30 August 1968. George Harrison’s 1970 Official UK Singles Chart Number One, ‘My Sweet Lord’, takes the top spot, […]

todayAugust 30, 2018

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8/26/18-Steve Perry & George Harrison

Former Journey star Steve Perry made sure he had the blessing of George Harrison's widow before he added his version of the former Beatle's I Need You on his comeback album. The singer first heard the track years ago and always dreamed of reworking it as an R&B tune, but he wanted to make sure Harrison's family was OK with his rendition before going public with it, and recruited Tom […]

todayAugust 26, 2018

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