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The Beatles, foreground from left, Paul McCartney, George Harrison, John Lennon and Ringo Starr on drums perform on the CBS "Ed Sullivan Show" in New York on Feb. 9, 1964. Sixty years after the onset of Beatlemania and with two of the quartet now dead, artificial intelligence has enabled the release of a new Beatles song.Now And Then, will be available Thursday, Nov. 2. (AP Photo/File)

The last ‘new’ Beatles song, ‘Now And Then,’ will be released next week

By David Bauder - Associated Press

International Olympic Committee (IOC) president Thomas Bach delivers his speech during IOC invitation ceremony, exactly one year for the 2024 Olympics, Wednesday, July 26, 2023 in Saint-Denis, outside Paris. (AP Photo/Aurelien Morissard)

Olympic president invokes John Lennon’s memory as Paris marks 1-year countdown to war-clouded Games

By John Leicester - Associated Press

Paul McCartney poses for photographers upon arrival for the premiere of the film "If These Walls Could Sing" in London, Monday, Dec. 12, 2022. Artificial intelligence has been used to extract John Lennon's voice from an old demo to create “the last Beatles record,” Paul McCartney said Tuesday, June 13, 2023. McCartney, 80, told the BBC that the technology was used to separate the Beatles' voices from background sounds during the making of director Peter Jackson's 2021 documentary series, “The Beatles: Get Back." (Photo by Scott Garfitt/Invision/AP, File)

You say you got a real solution, well you know: AI helps Beatles come together in ‘final’ record

By Sylvia Hui - Associated Press

This Jan. 31, 2018 photo, provided by the New York State Department of Corrections, shows Mark David Chapman, the man who shot and killed John Lennon outside his Manhattan apartment building in 1980. Chapman has been denied parole for a 12th time, New York corrections officials said Monday, Sept. 12, 2022. (New York State Department of Corrections via AP, File) **FILE**

John Lennon assassin Mark David Chapman denied parole for the 12th time

By Vaughn Cockayne - The Washington Times

This image released by Disney+ shows, from left, Ringo Starr, Paul McCartney, John Lennon and George Harrison, with Yoko Ono, seated right, in a scene from the nearly 8-hour Peter Jackson-produced documentary “Get Back,” airing over three days starting Thanksgiving. (Disney+ via AP)

‘Get Back’ series dispels, and confirms, some Beatle myths

By David Bauder - Associated Press

In this May 29, 2009, file photo, music producer Phil Spector sits in a courtroom for his sentencing in Los Angeles. Spector, the eccentric and revolutionary music producer who transformed rock music with his “Wall of Sound” method and who was later convicted of murder, died Saturday, Jan. 16, 2021, at age 81. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong, Pool, File)

Phil Spector, famed music producer and murderer, dies at 81

By Christopher Weber and Linda Deutsch - Associated Press

Photos, flowers, and candles have been left at Strawberry Fields in New York's Central Park to remember John Lennon, Tuesday, Dec. 8, 2020. The rock star and former Beatle was shot to death outside his New York City apartment building by a fan on Dec. 8, 1980. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan)

Fans, Ono, bandmates mark 40 years since John Lennon’s death

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Police: Suspect in trooper shooting armed and dangerous

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State trooper shot during traffic stop out of hospital

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John Lennon’s ‘angry’ letter to Lexington man up for auction

By KARLA WARD and Lexington Herald-Leader - Associated Press

John Lennon letter to Kentucky man going up for auction

By KARLA WARD - Associated Press

FILE - A couple look at the &quot;Lennon Wall&quot; with a face mask attached to the image of John Lennon, in Prague, Czech Republic, on April 6, 2020. Like so many other events in the year of coronavirus, an annual tribute to John Lennon held in its adopted city of New York will go online. The five-hour event will be streamed for free on Lennon's birthday, October 9, starting at 7 p.m. Eastern time on the LennonTribute.org website. It will feature recorded performances from Patti Smith, Rosanne Cash, Natalie Merchant, Jackson Browne, Jorma Kaukonen and others. (AP Photo/Petr David Josek)

Annual Lennon tribute, in 40th year, goes online

By DAVID BAUDER - Associated Press

John Lennon’s killer denied parole for an 11th time

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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR: Lennon had a spiritual side, too

By THE WASHINGTON TIMES

In this 1971 file photo, singer John Lennon appears during a press conference. (AP Photo, File)

Left-wing activist Kevin Powell wants to replace ‘Star-Spangled Banner’ with John Lennon’s ‘Imagine’

By Robert Knight

In this June 29, 1954, file photo, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill holds his hat as he arrives at the White House in Washington. (AP Photo/Charles Gorry, file)

Churchill Airport? Plan to rename Heathrow never moved ahead

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FILE - This Dec. 8, 2018 file photo shows Natalie Merchant performing at Cyndi Lauper's 8th Annual &quot;Home for the Holidays&quot; benefit concert in New York. Merchant is the sixth recipient of the John Lennon Real Love Award, and will headline a tribute concert to the former Beatle in New York on Dec. 6. She's also getting an award from ASCAP this month. (Photo by Charles Sykes/Invision/AP, File)

Imagine this: Natalie Merchant honored with Lennon award

By DAVID BAUDER - Associated Press

FILE - In this Dec. 9, 2014 file photo, writer/director/producer Peter Jackson arrives at the Los Angeles premiere of &quot;The Hobbit: The Battle Of The Five Armies&quot; in Los Angeles. Jackson announced Wednesday, Jan. 30, 2019, that he is making a Beatles’ farewell documentary ,“Let It Be,” out of some 55 hours of footage, shot in January 1969, that has never been seen by the public. (Photo by Richard Shotwell/Invision/AP, File)

Peter Jackson making new documentary of Beatles’ ‘Let It Be’

By HILLEL ITALIE - Associated Press

A member of the New York Police Department watches over revelers as they wait for midnight during the New Year's Eve celebration in New York's Times Square, Monday, Dec. 31, 2018, in New York. (AP Photo/Frank Franklin II)

The Latest: Wet throngs welcome 2019 in Times Square

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In this Feb. 9, 1964 file photo, Ed Sullivan, center, stands with The Beatles, from left, Ringo Starr, George Harrison, John Lennon, and Paul McCartney, during a rehearsal for the British group's first American appearance, on the "Ed Sullivan Show," in New York. The Beatles made their first appearance on "The Ed Sullivan Show," America's must-see weekly variety show, on Sunday, Feb. 9, 1964. And officially kicked off Beatlemania. (AP Photo, File)

Paul McCartney says he still dreams about playing music with late Beatles bandmates

By Andrew Blake - The Washington Times