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]]>“Now and Then” hit the shelves on November 2, after five decades in the making, and it’s based on John Lennon’s unreleased demo from 1977. The surviving members of the legendary band used AI-backed audio restoration technology to extract his voice from the original recording and bring “Now and Then” back to life.
Billed as the band’s final song, “Now and Then” made quite a splash on the UK Singles this week, with 78,000 units earned. It’s The Beatles’ first song to hit No. 1 since “The Ballad of John and Yoko” in 1969, breaking the record for the longest gap between number-one singles by any musical act: 54 years.
The Official Charts Company’s CEO Martin Talbot, said that the success of “Now and Then cements the band’s legacy and underlines the extraordinary scope of their enduring appeal.
“Beatlemania has returned this week – and what an amazing few days it has been for The Fab Four… If there were ever any doubts that The Beatles are the greatest band of all time, they have surely consigned them to history this week,” said Talbot in a statement.
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]]>The post Best New Songs of the Week appeared first on Hot Pop Today.
]]>If we had to pick the most talked-about new track to hit the shelves this Friday, it would definitely be “Now and Then”, billed as The Beatles’ “final song”. Five decades in the making, this song utilized modern technology to reunite the members of the legendary band for one last time.
November 3 also marked the release of Jungkook’s long-awaited solo album Golden. It’s the most complete record any member of BTS released on their own, and it already produced several hit songs – and we’re expecting great things from its latest single “Standing Next to You”.
Megan Thee Stallion also created a lot of buzz with her comeback single “Cobra”, while Olivia Rodrigo created some hype for The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes soundtrack with “Can’t Catch Me Now”. It was a great week for Gen-Z artists overall, with new music by Willow, Conan Gray, The Kid LAROI, and Laufey also making the cut.
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]]>The post The Beatles Share Their Final Song “Now and Then” appeared first on Hot Pop Today.
]]>Lennon recorded a demo for “Now and Then” in the late 1970s, but it took five decades for this song to finally see the light of day. The surviving members of The Beatless initially considered including it in the retrospective project The Beatles Anthology back in 1995, but extracting his vocals proved to be impossible at the time.
Things turned around thanks to the new AI-backed audio restoration technology that visionary director Peter Jackson used in his documentary The Beatles: Get Back. He also directed the music video for “Now and Then”, which featured never-before-seen footage of The Beatles’ past eras.
Paul McCartney told BBC Radio1’s Clara Amfo that it felt “magical” to record this song because it was almost like they were reunited with Lennon after all these years.
“When we were in the studio, we had John’s voice in our ears so you could imagine he was just in the next room in a vocal booth or something and we were just working with him again so it was joyful. We hadn’t experienced that for a long time,” said McCartney.
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]]>The post Paul McCartney Clears Confusion Surrounding AI-Generated Beatles Song appeared first on Hot Pop Today.
]]>Earlier this month, McCartney told Radio 4’s Today Programme that he extracted John Lennon’s vocals from an old demo track with the help of AI technology. He didn’t reveal the name of the song in question, but it’s most likely he was talking about the 1978 track “Now and Then”.
Fans of the iconic British band weren’t too crazy about the idea of using AI to revive their sound. After receiving intense backlash, McCartney took to social media to address speculations surrounding this project and said it won’t be a classic AI-generated song.
“Seems to be a lot of guess work out there. Can’t say too much at this stage but to be clear, nothing has been artificially or synthetically created. It’s all real and we all play on it. We cleaned up some existing recordings – a process which has gone on for years,” wrote McCartney on Twitter.
McCartney also said that he finds the process of using artificial intelligence to make music “scary”, adding that we’ll just have to see where it leads because “it’s the future.”
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]]>The post The Beatles Documentary Directed by Peter Jackson Gets a Release Date appeared first on Hot Pop Today.
]]>The project was first confirmed back in early 2019 and focuses on the recording of the group’s last album Let it Be. It will contain material from 55 hours of previously unseen footage filmed by Michael Lindsay-Hogg alongside audio taken from 140 hours of “mostly unheard” recordings from Let it Be sessions.
The documentary will also include The Beatles’ iconic performance on the rooftop of Apple Corps headquarters in London from January 30th, 1969. This turned out to be the band’s last ever live show together.
“I am really happy that Peter has delved into our archives to make a film that shows the truth about The Beatles recording together,” said Paul McCartney. “The friendship and love between us comes over and reminds me of what a crazily beautiful time we had.”
“I’m really looking forward to this film,” added Ringo Starr. “Peter is great and it was so cool looking at all this footage. There was hours and hours of us just laughing and playing music, not at all like the version that came out.”
Besides being backed by McCartney and Starr, The Beatles: Get Back also received the blessing from John Lennon and George Harrison’s widows Yoko Ono and Olivia Harrison.
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]]>The post Science Reckons It Has Found “The Perfect Pop Song” appeared first on Hot Pop Today.
]]>A group of researchers at the Max Planck Insitute in Germany have been on a hunt to find out what it is in music that stimulates the greatest pleasure. They concluded that it relates to the element of surprise. They analyzed over 80,000 chord progressions from songs between 1958 and 1991. They then gave each a score based on how “surprising” the chord was compared to the previous.
Their group of volunteers found that when they did not know what was coming next, they experienced greater pleasure. The researches removed the lyrics from 30 selected songs and found that when the volunteers could not predict what was coming next, musical pleasure was stimulated in the brain. They then concluded that out of every chord progression they trialed, “Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da” was the most pleasurable.
Vincent Cheung of the Max Planck Institute told The Times: “It is fascinating that humans derive pleasure from a piece of music just by how sounds are ordered over time. Songs that we find pleasant strike a good balance between us knowing what is going to happen next and surprising us with something we did not expect.
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]]>The post Abbey Road Was Not Meant to Be The Beatles’ Final Album, Says Ringo Starr appeared first on Hot Pop Today.
]]>But recently, new evidence has surfaced that shed light on what really took place back in 1970 when the biggest band in the world called it quits. historian and Beatles expert Mark Lewisohn has uncovered a recording of a band meeting where McCartney brings up plans for a follow-up album to Abbey Road.
“The books have always told us that they knew Abbey Road was their last album and they wanted to go out on an artistic high,” Lewisohn said in an interview to The Guardian last month. “But no – they’re discussing the next album.”
And now we have additional confirmation from drummer Ringo Starr, who spoke with BBC 6. Starr said: “We did do Abbey Road and we was like, ‘Okay that’s pretty good…but none of us said, ‘OK, that’s the last time we’ll ever play together’. Nobody said that. I never felt that.
“So it was not the end – because in the end, the love you take is equal to the love you make,” Starr quoted the song “The End” which seals Abbey Road.
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]]>The post Dave Grohl Plays His Favorite Beatles Songs on BBC 2 appeared first on Hot Pop Today.
]]>One noteworthy pick was “In My Life”, which Grohl explained, “means a lot to me, because it was the song that was played at Kurt Cobain’s memorial.” Referencing, of course, the deceased frontman of Nirvana, Grohl’s old band.
“That day, after everyone had said their piece, this next song came over the speakers. And everyone got to celebrate Kurt’s love of The Beatles one last time together,” Grohl went on, emotionally. “Still to this day, when I hear it, it touches a place in me that no other song ever will. It’s called ‘In My Life’ and knowing how much of a fan Kurt was of The Beatles, and how much of an influence they were, to everything we’ve done ever done…I’d like to play this one for him.”
Another important pick for Grohl was “Hey Jude,” which he said was the first song of The Beatles he had ever heard. “I remember having a sleepover at a friend’s house when I was four or five years old and listening to ‘Hey Jude’ [. . .] I remember that night, laying in my sleeping bag and singing along to the na-na-nas at the end of the song.”
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]]>The post Paul McCartney Misses Lennon: I Often Dream About John appeared first on Hot Pop Today.
]]>Even though many of his current fans were born years after the fact, the world still remembers Lennon as one of its most important musical and cultural figures. And bandmate Sir Paul McCartney hasn’t forgotten about him either.
“I dream about him,” McCartney told Stephen Colbert on The Late Show this week. “When you’ve had a relationship like that for so long, such a deep relationship… I love when people revisit you in your dreams.
“I often have band dreams, and I’m often with John [in them]… I have a lot of dreams about John, and they’re always good.”
When The Beatles decided to call it quits back in 1970, much of the public’s ire was directed at McCartney. “When the Beatles broke up, a lot of the talk was that, like, I was the villain, and that John and I didn’t really get on well.”
“I kinda bought into it,” he admitted before explaining how he eventually came to realize they were truly good friends all along.
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]]>The post Ringo Starr’s New Album Features One of John Lennon’s Final Songs appeared first on Hot Pop Today.
]]>“Grow Old with Me” was recorded as a demo by Lennon in 1980, and was later released as a part of his posthumous album Milk and Honey. Remaining members of the Beatles later tried to work on some of Lennon’s unfinished songs, but this was never one of them.
While discussing the new version of this song, Ringo Starr admitted that he still wells up when he thinks of Lennon, and he did his best to do him justice alongside McCartney.
“The other good thing is that I really wanted Paul to play on it, and he said yes. Paul came over and he played bass and sings a little bit on this with me. So John’s on it in a way. I’m on it and Paul’s on it. It’s not a publicity stunt. This is just what I wanted,” said Starr in a statement.
“Grow Old with Me” will be featured on Starr’s 20th studio album What’s My Name, scheduled to be released on October 25th.
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]]>The post The Beatles Set Major UK Chart Record With Their Last Song “Now and Then” appeared first on Hot Pop Today.
]]>“Now and Then” hit the shelves on November 2, after five decades in the making, and it’s based on John Lennon’s unreleased demo from 1977. The surviving members of the legendary band used AI-backed audio restoration technology to extract his voice from the original recording and bring “Now and Then” back to life.
Billed as the band’s final song, “Now and Then” made quite a splash on the UK Singles this week, with 78,000 units earned. It’s The Beatles’ first song to hit No. 1 since “The Ballad of John and Yoko” in 1969, breaking the record for the longest gap between number-one singles by any musical act: 54 years.
The Official Charts Company’s CEO Martin Talbot, said that the success of “Now and Then cements the band’s legacy and underlines the extraordinary scope of their enduring appeal.
“Beatlemania has returned this week – and what an amazing few days it has been for The Fab Four… If there were ever any doubts that The Beatles are the greatest band of all time, they have surely consigned them to history this week,” said Talbot in a statement.
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]]>The post Best New Songs of the Week appeared first on Hot Pop Today.
]]>If we had to pick the most talked-about new track to hit the shelves this Friday, it would definitely be “Now and Then”, billed as The Beatles’ “final song”. Five decades in the making, this song utilized modern technology to reunite the members of the legendary band for one last time.
November 3 also marked the release of Jungkook’s long-awaited solo album Golden. It’s the most complete record any member of BTS released on their own, and it already produced several hit songs – and we’re expecting great things from its latest single “Standing Next to You”.
Megan Thee Stallion also created a lot of buzz with her comeback single “Cobra”, while Olivia Rodrigo created some hype for The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes soundtrack with “Can’t Catch Me Now”. It was a great week for Gen-Z artists overall, with new music by Willow, Conan Gray, The Kid LAROI, and Laufey also making the cut.
The post Best New Songs of the Week appeared first on Hot Pop Today.
]]>The post The Beatles Share Their Final Song “Now and Then” appeared first on Hot Pop Today.
]]>Lennon recorded a demo for “Now and Then” in the late 1970s, but it took five decades for this song to finally see the light of day. The surviving members of The Beatless initially considered including it in the retrospective project The Beatles Anthology back in 1995, but extracting his vocals proved to be impossible at the time.
Things turned around thanks to the new AI-backed audio restoration technology that visionary director Peter Jackson used in his documentary The Beatles: Get Back. He also directed the music video for “Now and Then”, which featured never-before-seen footage of The Beatles’ past eras.
Paul McCartney told BBC Radio1’s Clara Amfo that it felt “magical” to record this song because it was almost like they were reunited with Lennon after all these years.
“When we were in the studio, we had John’s voice in our ears so you could imagine he was just in the next room in a vocal booth or something and we were just working with him again so it was joyful. We hadn’t experienced that for a long time,” said McCartney.
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]]>The post Paul McCartney Clears Confusion Surrounding AI-Generated Beatles Song appeared first on Hot Pop Today.
]]>Earlier this month, McCartney told Radio 4’s Today Programme that he extracted John Lennon’s vocals from an old demo track with the help of AI technology. He didn’t reveal the name of the song in question, but it’s most likely he was talking about the 1978 track “Now and Then”.
Fans of the iconic British band weren’t too crazy about the idea of using AI to revive their sound. After receiving intense backlash, McCartney took to social media to address speculations surrounding this project and said it won’t be a classic AI-generated song.
“Seems to be a lot of guess work out there. Can’t say too much at this stage but to be clear, nothing has been artificially or synthetically created. It’s all real and we all play on it. We cleaned up some existing recordings – a process which has gone on for years,” wrote McCartney on Twitter.
McCartney also said that he finds the process of using artificial intelligence to make music “scary”, adding that we’ll just have to see where it leads because “it’s the future.”
The post Paul McCartney Clears Confusion Surrounding AI-Generated Beatles Song appeared first on Hot Pop Today.
]]>The post The Beatles Documentary Directed by Peter Jackson Gets a Release Date appeared first on Hot Pop Today.
]]>The project was first confirmed back in early 2019 and focuses on the recording of the group’s last album Let it Be. It will contain material from 55 hours of previously unseen footage filmed by Michael Lindsay-Hogg alongside audio taken from 140 hours of “mostly unheard” recordings from Let it Be sessions.
The documentary will also include The Beatles’ iconic performance on the rooftop of Apple Corps headquarters in London from January 30th, 1969. This turned out to be the band’s last ever live show together.
“I am really happy that Peter has delved into our archives to make a film that shows the truth about The Beatles recording together,” said Paul McCartney. “The friendship and love between us comes over and reminds me of what a crazily beautiful time we had.”
“I’m really looking forward to this film,” added Ringo Starr. “Peter is great and it was so cool looking at all this footage. There was hours and hours of us just laughing and playing music, not at all like the version that came out.”
Besides being backed by McCartney and Starr, The Beatles: Get Back also received the blessing from John Lennon and George Harrison’s widows Yoko Ono and Olivia Harrison.
The post The Beatles Documentary Directed by Peter Jackson Gets a Release Date appeared first on Hot Pop Today.
]]>The post Science Reckons It Has Found “The Perfect Pop Song” appeared first on Hot Pop Today.
]]>A group of researchers at the Max Planck Insitute in Germany have been on a hunt to find out what it is in music that stimulates the greatest pleasure. They concluded that it relates to the element of surprise. They analyzed over 80,000 chord progressions from songs between 1958 and 1991. They then gave each a score based on how “surprising” the chord was compared to the previous.
Their group of volunteers found that when they did not know what was coming next, they experienced greater pleasure. The researches removed the lyrics from 30 selected songs and found that when the volunteers could not predict what was coming next, musical pleasure was stimulated in the brain. They then concluded that out of every chord progression they trialed, “Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da” was the most pleasurable.
Vincent Cheung of the Max Planck Institute told The Times: “It is fascinating that humans derive pleasure from a piece of music just by how sounds are ordered over time. Songs that we find pleasant strike a good balance between us knowing what is going to happen next and surprising us with something we did not expect.
The post Science Reckons It Has Found “The Perfect Pop Song” appeared first on Hot Pop Today.
]]>The post Abbey Road Was Not Meant to Be The Beatles’ Final Album, Says Ringo Starr appeared first on Hot Pop Today.
]]>But recently, new evidence has surfaced that shed light on what really took place back in 1970 when the biggest band in the world called it quits. historian and Beatles expert Mark Lewisohn has uncovered a recording of a band meeting where McCartney brings up plans for a follow-up album to Abbey Road.
“The books have always told us that they knew Abbey Road was their last album and they wanted to go out on an artistic high,” Lewisohn said in an interview to The Guardian last month. “But no – they’re discussing the next album.”
And now we have additional confirmation from drummer Ringo Starr, who spoke with BBC 6. Starr said: “We did do Abbey Road and we was like, ‘Okay that’s pretty good…but none of us said, ‘OK, that’s the last time we’ll ever play together’. Nobody said that. I never felt that.
“So it was not the end – because in the end, the love you take is equal to the love you make,” Starr quoted the song “The End” which seals Abbey Road.
The post Abbey Road Was Not Meant to Be The Beatles’ Final Album, Says Ringo Starr appeared first on Hot Pop Today.
]]>The post Dave Grohl Plays His Favorite Beatles Songs on BBC 2 appeared first on Hot Pop Today.
]]>One noteworthy pick was “In My Life”, which Grohl explained, “means a lot to me, because it was the song that was played at Kurt Cobain’s memorial.” Referencing, of course, the deceased frontman of Nirvana, Grohl’s old band.
“That day, after everyone had said their piece, this next song came over the speakers. And everyone got to celebrate Kurt’s love of The Beatles one last time together,” Grohl went on, emotionally. “Still to this day, when I hear it, it touches a place in me that no other song ever will. It’s called ‘In My Life’ and knowing how much of a fan Kurt was of The Beatles, and how much of an influence they were, to everything we’ve done ever done…I’d like to play this one for him.”
Another important pick for Grohl was “Hey Jude,” which he said was the first song of The Beatles he had ever heard. “I remember having a sleepover at a friend’s house when I was four or five years old and listening to ‘Hey Jude’ [. . .] I remember that night, laying in my sleeping bag and singing along to the na-na-nas at the end of the song.”
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]]>The post Paul McCartney Misses Lennon: I Often Dream About John appeared first on Hot Pop Today.
]]>Even though many of his current fans were born years after the fact, the world still remembers Lennon as one of its most important musical and cultural figures. And bandmate Sir Paul McCartney hasn’t forgotten about him either.
“I dream about him,” McCartney told Stephen Colbert on The Late Show this week. “When you’ve had a relationship like that for so long, such a deep relationship… I love when people revisit you in your dreams.
“I often have band dreams, and I’m often with John [in them]… I have a lot of dreams about John, and they’re always good.”
When The Beatles decided to call it quits back in 1970, much of the public’s ire was directed at McCartney. “When the Beatles broke up, a lot of the talk was that, like, I was the villain, and that John and I didn’t really get on well.”
“I kinda bought into it,” he admitted before explaining how he eventually came to realize they were truly good friends all along.
The post Paul McCartney Misses Lennon: I Often Dream About John appeared first on Hot Pop Today.
]]>The post Ringo Starr’s New Album Features One of John Lennon’s Final Songs appeared first on Hot Pop Today.
]]>“Grow Old with Me” was recorded as a demo by Lennon in 1980, and was later released as a part of his posthumous album Milk and Honey. Remaining members of the Beatles later tried to work on some of Lennon’s unfinished songs, but this was never one of them.
While discussing the new version of this song, Ringo Starr admitted that he still wells up when he thinks of Lennon, and he did his best to do him justice alongside McCartney.
“The other good thing is that I really wanted Paul to play on it, and he said yes. Paul came over and he played bass and sings a little bit on this with me. So John’s on it in a way. I’m on it and Paul’s on it. It’s not a publicity stunt. This is just what I wanted,” said Starr in a statement.
“Grow Old with Me” will be featured on Starr’s 20th studio album What’s My Name, scheduled to be released on October 25th.
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