{"id":521,"date":"2023-10-27T05:43:19","date_gmt":"2023-10-27T03:43:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.english-tutor.at\/news\/?p=521"},"modified":"2023-10-27T16:39:45","modified_gmt":"2023-10-27T14:39:45","slug":"the-beatles-final-song","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.english-tutor.at\/news\/the-beatles-final-song\/","title":{"rendered":"The Beatles&#8217; Final Song"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The two <a href=\"#\/\" data-toggle=\"tooltip\" title=\"who are still alive\">remaining<\/a> Beatles, Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr have finished <a href=\"#\/\" data-toggle=\"tooltip\" title=\"to put music on a disc or tape so that people can listen to it later\">recording<\/a> a song in which all four Beatles can be heard.   <\/p>\n\n<p>The song <a href=\"#\/\" data-toggle=\"tooltip\" title=\"also has\">includes<\/a> the voice of John Lennon, who was murdered in 1980.  <\/p>\n\n<p>It was Lennon who wrote and recorded the song &#8220;<i>Now and Then<\/i>&#8221; in the 1970s, after the Beatles had broken up. <a href=\"#\/\" data-toggle=\"tooltip\" title=\"but\">However<\/a> it was never <a href=\"#\/\" data-toggle=\"tooltip\" title=\"brought out for people to hear\">released<\/a>. Now McCartney and Starr have finally finished the song, over four <a href=\"#\/\" data-toggle=\"tooltip\" title=\"ten years\">decades<\/a> later. <\/p>\n\n<p>McCartney, Starr and Harrison worked on the song in the 1990s but at that time could not mix in Lennon&#8217;s voice and piano playing. New <a href=\"#\/\" data-toggle=\"tooltip\" title=\"here: recording methods\">technology<\/a> has now helped produce the original voice of John Lennon. The song also uses new guitar recordings by George Harrison, who died in 2001. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"600\" src=\"https:\/\/www.english-tutor.at\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/The_Beatles_members_at_New_York_City_in_1964.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-522\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.english-tutor.at\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/The_Beatles_members_at_New_York_City_in_1964.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.english-tutor.at\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/The_Beatles_members_at_New_York_City_in_1964-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.english-tutor.at\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/The_Beatles_members_at_New_York_City_in_1964-100x100.jpg 100w, https:\/\/www.english-tutor.at\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/The_Beatles_members_at_New_York_City_in_1964-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>The Beatles in 1964 &#8211; from top left: John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr<\/strong><br><em>Image:<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/File:The_Beatles_members_at_New_York_City_in_1964.jpg\">United Press International (UPI Telephoto)Cropping and retouching: User:Indopug and User:Misterweiss<\/a>, <br>Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The two remaining Beatles, Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr have finished recording a song in which all four Beatles can be heard. The song includes the voice of John Lennon, who was murdered in 1980. 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