Ringo Starr has shared his reaction to The Beatles hitting Number One in the charts.The band recently announced their single ‘Now And Then‘, the last track to feature all four Beatles members.
The song stems from a demo tape recorded by the late John Lennon. The Beatles used AI to complete the song, and waited nearly “a quarter of a century” to have the technology to finish ‘Now And Then’.‘Now And Then’, which was released November 2, has topped the UK Charts 60 years after their first Number One.
It is the band’s 18th Number One single, with the last being 1969’s ‘The Ballad Of John And Yoko’.Yesterday (November 11), drummer Starr took to Twitter to react to the news.“What’s happening it’s all happening number one in England UK incredible a few more facts will come on the screen” he wrote, attaching a video to his tweet. “Peace and love everybody.
It’s a beautiful day.”A video set to ‘Now And Then’ showed a slideshow of photos with some more impressive statistics: “Beatlemania is BACK”.The video claims that ‘Now And Then’ is the fastest-selling single of 2023 and fastest-selling vinyl single of the century.
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