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Tomorrow (April 18), John Lennon‘s 1970 track ‘Love’ will be re-released in the form of nine “meditation mixes” from his son Sean Ono Lennon for Record Store Day.

The tracks are now available to stream on the Lumenate app and will come out on vinyl tomorrow.

Ahead of the release of the mixes, a new video for ‘Love’ has been shared, featuring never before seen footage of Lennon and Yoko Ono on holiday in Greece.

“After the surprising success of the Mind Games (Meditation Mixes), and our collaboration with Lumenate the Meditation App, we are very pleased to bring you Volume Two – a collection of ambient reimaginings of John Lennon’s classic song, to create a meditation of ‘Love,” says Sean Ono Lennon.

Elsewhere, Sean recently said he has “technically” taken over the role of custodian of his father’s legacy.

“But obviously the world is also the custodian of his legacy, I would say,” said Sean. “I’m just doing my best to help make sure that the younger generation doesn’t forget about The Beatles and John and Yoko. That’s how I look at it.”

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The Boys of Dungeon Lane is not only the first new solo album to be released by Paul McCartney in over five years; it is a collection of rare and revealing glimpses into memories never-before shared, along with some newly inspired love songs, from one of the most culturally significant figures of our time.

With The Boys of Dungeon Lane, Paul McCartney turns the lens inward, revisiting the formative years that shaped not only his life, but the very foundations of modern popular culture. In a career defined by timeless storytelling and unforgettable characters, Paul now tells the most personal story of all, his own. The Boys of Dungeon Lane is his most introspective album to date and takes the listener back to where it all began.

These extraordinary new songs find Paul in a candid, vulnerable and deeply reflective mood, writing with rare openness about his childhood in post-war Liverpool, the resilience of his parents, and early adventures shared with George Harrison and John Lennon long before the world had ever heard of Beatlemania. These were the years that historians continue to examine, the quiet, unguarded days that unknowingly laid the groundwork for a cultural revolution. Paul visits them not as myths or f details

The Beatles dominated pop and rock music across the globe in the 1960s. But like all great things, they too came to an end. Their tumultuous breakup occurred in 1970, following their final album release, Let It Be. And from there on out, each of the Fab Four dove headfirst into their solo careers. And on this day, 55 years ago, each of The Beatles had a solo hit on the UK charts. That’s a pretty big feat, considering they had quite the career as a band to follow up. And the songs in question are a mix of still-famous hits and somewhat forgotten deep cuts. Let’s take a look at the start of the Fab Four’s individual solo careers, shall we? 

On this day, April 17, 1971, all four former members of The Beatles had solo hits on the UK charts. Those hits include Paul McCartney’s “Another Day”, John Lennon’s “Power To The People”, George Harrison’s “My Sweet Lord”, and Ringo Starr’s “It Don’t Come Easy”.

“Another Day” by Paul McCartney made it to No. 2 on the Official Singles Chart Top 100 in the UK, first entering the chart on February 27, 1971. A standalone single, this folk rock jam was McCartney’s d details

Paul McCartney believes The Beatles’ long-standing producer, George Martin, elevated the band.

Martin, who served as McCartney‘s producer in the 1980s on a series of solo projects, was praised by the Wings frontman in The Lyrics. McCartney wrote of the impact Martin had on the group in his book, detailing the source of inspiration for every song he had written. When writing of And I Love Her, McCartney singled out George Martin as a crucial influence on the song and how it was formed by The Beatles. He went on to explain how the song had been written for his at-the-time girlfriend, Jane Asher, who became a sort of muse for All My Loving.

McCartney wrote: “Another thing worth recalling is that George Martin was inspired to add a chord modulation in the solo of the song, a key change that he knew would be musically very satisfying; we shifted the chord progression to start with G minor instead of F-sharp minor – so, up a semitone. I think George Martin’s classical training told him that that would be a really interesting change. And it is.

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Lennon and Ono's wedding and "bed-in" inspired media frenzy and a Beatles song.
"The Ballad of John and Yoko" was banned by over 100 U.S. radio stations.
Lennon called the song "a prayer... a gospel song," and it still became a hit.

It’s no exaggeration to say that John Lennon and Yoko Ono had one of the most iconic (and controversial) love stories of all time…or that the couple’s relationship was the target of one of the biggest media frenzies in history. One of the most turbulent periods on Lennon and Ono’s timeline happened over a two-week span in 1969 when the pair got married in Gibraltar and held their first “bed-in” in Amsterdam, being hounded by the press all the while. To top it all off, the now-classic Beatles song Lennon wrote about the experience ended up getting banned.

Recorded on April 14, 1969, and released as a non-album single on May 30, “The Ballad of John and Yoko” chronicled Lennon and Ono’s journey in a funny, sort of exasperated way:

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Almost everyone can sing along to “Maybe I’m Amazed” by Paul McCartney. The song was first released by him in 1970, not coincidentally the same year that the Beatles, made up of Paul McCartney, John Lennon, Ringo Starr, and George Harrison, split up. Fueled partly by Paul McCartney’s desire to do a solo project, his wish came true with his debut solo album, McCartney.

But it wasn’t until seven years later that “Maybe I’m Amazed” became a hit for him. The song is written as a love letter to his wife, Linda McCartney, whom he wed in 1969, and her devotion to him amid the upheaval with the end of the Beatles.

“Maybe I’m Amazed” says, “Maybe I’m amazed at the way you’re with me all the time / And maybe I’m afraid of the way I leave you / Maybe I’m amazed at the way you help me sing my song / You right me when I’m wrong / Maybe I’m amazed at the way I really need you.”  What Paul McCartney Says About Writing “Maybe I’m Amazed”.

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The 85-year-old musician followed up on an announcement first made in March. 

Sir Ringo Starr's new album release date is approaching and the former Beatle said he s excited for the new project to be launched on April 24. Ringo's new album, Long Long Road, is his second with T Bone Burnett. It features collaborations with Sheryl Crow, Billy Strings, Molly Tuttle, Sarah Jarosz and St. Vincent.  ‌

He took to Instagram overnight to share an update on the release. A picture of Ringo holding the peace sign was shared with the caption: "Here it comes, my new record Long Long Road. Peace and love."  ‌

Fans of Sir Ringo commented on the post as they await the new music from him. One comment said "Looking forward to it" and another fan added "This is the day after my birthday, thank you Ringo. My favourite Beatle."  ‌

Other messages included: "And arriving exactly when needed. Heartfelt anticipation" and "You are such a treasure."

The new album follows on from Sir Ringo’s 2025 album Look Up which marked his first number one album on the UK's official country chart. Sir Ringo said: "I'm blessed to have T Bone in my life right now and working w details

The Beatles started running out of steam towards the end of the 60s. Their fervor for recording wasn’t what it was during their heyday. But one song reignited their passion for the craft, at least among the band’s central songwriting duo, John Lennon and Paul McCartney. On this day in 1969, the pair recorded one of their final efforts together—a song so controversial that it was banned by the radio.
The Beatles’ Song, Recorded by John Lennon and Paul McCartney, That Was So Controversial the Radio Banned It

“The Ballad Of John And Yoko” was recorded soon after the namesake couple’s wedding in 1969. The simple ceremony was encapsulated into this track, which ultimately became a non-album Beatles single.

“It was very romantic,” John Lennon once said. “It’s all in the song, ‘The Ballad Of John And Yoko’, if you want to know how it happened, it’s in there. Gibraltar was like a little sunny dream. I couldn’t find a white suit—I had sort of off-white corduroy trousers and a white jacket. Yoko had all white on.”

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The Beatles were the biggest and most important act of the 1960s, but you’d never know it by looking at Billboard’s Easy Listening chart (now called Adult Contemporary). Easy listening stations wanted to have a distinct identity from pop stations in the 1960s. Some artists did well in both formats, including Frank Sinatra, Petula Clark and Glen Campbell. But many artists fared much better on the Easy Listening chart than they did on the Hot 100. Among them: Jack Jones, Al Martino, Andy Williams, Perry Como, Vikki Carr, The Lettermen, Tony Bennett, Barbra Streisand, Eddy Arnold, Jerry Vale and Ed Ames.

Even “Yesterday,” one of the most classic (and oft-recorded) ballads in music history, failed to crack the Easy Listening chart. The 1965 single logged four weeks atop the Billboard Hot 100, but it went nowhere (man) on Easy Listening. Those adult-skewing stations were more inclined to play the schmaltzy “Red Roses for a Blue Lady,” which was a top 10 Easy Listening hit for three artists that year — Vic Dana, Bert Kaempfert & His Orchestra and Wayne Newton.

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Biographies can be a tricky, difficult genre to pull off. The best are written from a distance and focus on a critical assessment of their subject. They’re not afraid to hold the person at the center of the story accountable for indiscretions in either personal or professional life choices. The key to a successful biography has always been objectivity, distance, and a willingness to take a stand. This is especially true when it comes to divisive artists whose legacies are rich but still questionable. In the matter of Yoko Ono, the multi-hyphenate visual/recording artist, poet, sculptor, pioneering performance artist, widow of Beatle John Lennon, any biographer who undertakes a manageable account of the nonagenarian's life and times has to make a choice. Should he cover the prolific output, the colorful life, or both?

Ono turned 93 in February, and has been retired for approximately the past 10 years. She’s living on a farm in upstate New York. She’s given over the family empire to her fifty year old son Sean Lennon, who oversees boxed set releases of work by his father (Mind Games) and both parents together (Sometime In New York City.) Early in the prologue of Yoko Ono: A Biography, Sheff discloses his details

Every closed door leaves another waiting to be opened. When The Beatles split for good in April 1970, drummer Ringo Starr was more than prepared to embark on a new musical journey. Starr may not have been part of the prolific John Lennon-Paul McCartney songwriting partnership, whose volatile yet productive collaboration yielded roughly 180 songs for the band. With only two Beatles songwriting credits (or four, if you could include his co-writes), Starr seems like the last Beatle who would pursue a solo career.

Yet, with fewer creative constraints and more time at his disposal, the "song-first" drummer learned to trust his instincts over perfection. When he followed his heart into experimenting with different genres, it led him to create one highly misunderstood song — one that, contrary to popular belief, was inspired more by frendship than by hatred.
Ringo Starr Embraced '70s Glam Rock Realness in "Back Off Boogaloo"

They say drummers aren't great songwriters, but Starr seems to enjoy proving that wrong — even if it took him some time to find his footing. Before The Beatles split in 1970, Starr wrote his first song for the band, "Don't Pass Me By," which he originally worked on around 1963-1964 details

The album included two hit singles, the title track and “Jet.” It went to #1 in the U.S. and the U.K. and remains McCartney’s most successful non-Beatles album.

The cover featured McCartney, his wife, Linda McCartney, and guitarist Denny Laine posing as escaped convicts alongside actors James Coburn and Christopher Lee, British boxer John Conteh, U.K. broadcasters Michael Parkinson and Clement Freud, and English entertainer Kenny Lynch.

McCartney celebrated the 50th anniversary of the album by reissuing it in February 2024.

A documentary about McCartney’s post-Beatles career, including the formation of Wings, debuted on Prime Video in February. He also looked back at his time in Wings in the book Wings: The Story of a Band on the Run, which came out in November.

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Because they arrived on the scene around the same time and sported two vastly different images, The Beatles and The Rolling Stones were often painted as enemies. In actuality, the two bands maintained a cordial relationship, occasionally indulging in friendly rivalry.

As a matter of fact, The Beatles provided The Stones with one of their earliest singles. But only after they first deemed that they didn’t want to put the song out there in that same way. 

The frenzy that started to greet The Beatles in late 1962 in Great Britain soon enveloped The Rolling Stones when they started their recording career a year later. Whereas The Fab Four came across as polite and happy-go-lucky, The Stones put forth more of a bad-boy image.

But both enjoyed dizzying levels of success. And even when some in the press tried to imagine some sort of animosity between the two groups, they actually harbored no ill will toward each other at all. They regularly interacted in London as the beat music craze rolled through England in 1963.

One area where The Beatles enjoyed a pretty good head start on The Stones was the songwriting department. The Stones mostly relied on cover songs for their early material. Meanwhi details

Every artist has songs they can’t stand, and for The Beatles, that song was “Maxwell’s Silver Hammer”. Recorded at a time when the band was already struggling, the song appears on The Beatles’ Abbey Road album. It was a bit of a pain to make, according to drummer Ringo Starr.

Starr told Rolling Stone, “It was the worst track we ever had to record. It went on for f***ing weeks. I thought it was mad.”

The year was 1969, and Lennon had been in a car crash with his wife, Yoko Ono, weeks prior. She accompanied Lennon to the studio for some of the recording, which probably didn’t help matters. McCartney, who wrote the song, also kept having new ideas throughout recording, which annoyed Beatles like George Harrison.

Harrison even admitted, “After a while we did a good job on it, but when Paul got an idea or an arrangement in his head ….”

Other Beatles expressed a similar sentiment. Lennon said he “hated it,” and that the track was done “a hundred million times.”

It took The Beatles four lengthy sessions to complete “Maxwell’s Silver Hammer”. The Story Behind the Song.

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The Beatles' timeless sound keeps pulling in 18-29-year-olds across North America through streaming, TikTok trends, and endless cultural pull. Here's why their catalog hits different in 2026.

The Beatles changed everything. For young fans in North America today, their music isn't just oldies—it's the blueprint for modern pop, sampled on TikTok, blasted in memes, and dominating Spotify playlists. Born in Liverpool in 1960, John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison, and Ringo Starr exploded onto the scene with raw energy that reshaped global culture. Decades later, their influence pulses through hip-hop beats, indie tracks, and viral challenges, making them essential for anyone scrolling streaming apps or hitting festivals.

Why does this matter now? In 2026, with algorithms pushing classics to Gen Z, The Beatles rack up billions of streams yearly. North American listeners, from LA clubs to Toronto dive bars, rediscover them via covers, remixes, and social buzz. Their story of friendship, fame, and innovation feels relatable amid today's creator economy chaos.
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