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Within the Peter Jackson-directed video for the just-released “Now and Then” — touted because the “closing Beatles tune” — present-day Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr are pleasantly haunted by the ghosts of John Lennon and George Harrison, and even their very own youthful selves. It’s laborious to not suppose that life inside McCartney and Starr’s heads is slightly bit like that every day, burdened as they’re by the load of historical past. And so they is probably not alone: “I stroll the town at midnight/With the previous strapped to my again,” Mick Jagger sings on “Get Shut,” from Hackney Diamonds, the Rolling Stones‘ first new album of authentic songs in 18 years.
In their very own methods, each acts transcended loss of life itself to ship new music inside a number of weeks of one another in 2023 — although solely the Stones truly nonetheless exist as a working band. The brand new episode of Rolling Stone Music Now digs into the controversies and triumphs of each “Now and Then” (which used an AI instrument to extract John Lennon’s vocals from a messy demo), and Hackney Diamonds. Angie Martoccio and Andy Greene be a part of host Brian Hiatt for the dialogue, which additionally features a debate on that new Beatles video — is it transferring or creepy? For the complete episode, go here for the podcast supplier of your selection, hear on Apple Podcasts or Spotify, or simply press play above.
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