U.S. District Judge Stephen Wilsonhas thrown out a $5 million lawsuit that claimed Universal duped fans of Ana de Armas into watching its film Yesterday. The suit, filed by Peter Michael Rosza and Conor Woulfe last year, alleged that the studio misrepresented Danny Boyle’s movie in its trailer by featuring …
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Dolly Parton has shared a new cover of the Beatles‘ “Let It Be,” which features Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr, Mick Fleetwood, and Peter Frampton. The piano-led rendition is a showcase for Parton’s powerhouse vocals, with McCartney, who wrote the song, joining in on the chorus. “Let It Be” is the …
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“I feel like I need to correct the record a little bit,” Margot Robbie tells Rolling Stone. Earlier this year, the actress revealed to the world that she had a bit of a “goth phase” and loved heavy metal when she was younger. But it was just one of many …
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Producer/engineer Glyn Johns recorded the whole of the Let It Be sessions for the Beatles in 1969, and mixed a raw version of the album that wouldn’t be released for another 52 years — so he’s far from a fan of the Phil Spector-embellished album that came out in 1970. …
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When Paul McCartney announced the Beatles were releasing one final song later this year, with vocals extracted from a John Lennon demo via a machine-learning tool, the press jumped on a narrative of an “AI Beatles song.” Confused fans feared they were about to hear an AI-generated Lennon. But the …
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F or Benoit Carré, the future revealed itself in six notes. In 2015, Carré, a cerebral, bespectacled songwriter then in his mid-forties, became the artist-in-residence at Sony’s Paris-based Computer Science Laboratory, headed by his friend Francois Paçhet, a composer and leading artificial-intelligence researcher. Paçhet was developing some of the world’s …
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Long before Live Nation, Clear Channel, Ticketmaster, Stubhub, service fees, gold-circle seats, and anything that even resembles the live music industry as we know it today, there was Ron Delsener. The 87-year-old concert promoter has been booking shows in New York City going all the way back to the summer …
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If you purchase an independently reviewed product or service through a link on our website, Rolling Stone may receive an affiliate commission. We’ve heard Paul McCartney’s account of the Beatles’ rise to superstardom in his 2021 book, but now we get to see it: In the musician’s new book, 1964: …
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Paul McCartney has (sort of) got the Beatles back together for one more song with the help of artificial intelligence. First, to clarify: No, McCartney did not feed a machine a whole bunch of John Lennon and/or George Harrison material, get the computer to spit out some goofy, cheap hall …
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In 1973, the world saw George Harrison as the Beatle who was winning the break-up. He became a solo superstar with All Things Must Pass, his big triple-vinyl extravaganza, then his noble and star-sudded Concert For Bangla Desh. He’d finally broken free of the Fabs and gotten everything he’d ever …
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