2023-11-10 20:42:41
It has been 54 years, since “The Ballad of John and Yoko” in 1969, since the English group last rose to the top of the sales charts in the United Kingdom.
The Beatles – or rather Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr and a good dose of tinkering – top the British charts, 54 years after their last foray at the top of the rankings. Now and Then, the latest title from the legendary group, released last Thursday and produced using artificial intelligence, has become number 1 in sales in the United Kingdom, the organization which establishes the reference ranking announced this Friday, November 10. “It’s mind-boggling. I’m blown away. It’s also a very emotional moment for me,” Paul McCartney, 81, responded to Official Charts.
The last time a Beatles hit reached the top of the British weekly chart was in 1969 with The Ballad of John and Yoko, The Official Charts Company said in a press release, proclaiming “the return of Beatlemania” . In total, the Liverpool group, which broke up in April 1970, has taken 18 of its songs to the top of the charts, since From me to You in 1963.
Now and Then was born from a demo recorded in the late 1970s by John Lennon in his New York apartment. After his assassination in 1980, his widow Yoko Ono handed over the band, voice and piano, to the other members of the group in 1994. Artificial intelligence technologies have recently made it possible to isolate Lennon’s voice and mix it with recordings of other singers, including George Harrison before his death in 2001. The song was completed and released by both members again alive, Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr, 83 years old.
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