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One ‘last Beatles record’ coming, Mccartney says

- — From wire reports

A new Beatles song is coming together with a little help from AI, according to Paul Mccartney. Artificial intelligen­ce made it possible to turn a decades-old demo recording by John Lennon into “what will be the last Beatles record,” Mccartney Mccartney told BBC Radio 4′s “Today.”

“We were able to take John’s voice and get it pure through this AI,” he said. “It gives you some sort of leeway. There’s a good side to (artificial intelligen­ce), and then a scary side. We just have to see where that leads.” Mccartney, 80, said the record was recently finished and will be released this year. He didn’t share the song’s title, though the BBC suggested it’s likely a Lennon compositio­n, “Now and Then,” from 1978.

John Amos denies reports he’s fighting for life in ICU

Actor John Amos wants people to know he is “doing well,” despite reports to the contrary. The “Roots” and “Good Times” star, 83, is hospitaliz­ed in Tennessee, according to his publicist, Belinda Foster. who shared a statement Monday.

“To all of my fans, I want you to know that I am doing well. I am not in ICU nor was I ever fighting for my life,” Amos said.

Last month, officials in Colorado, where Amos has a home, say they opened an investigat­ion into an allegation the actor was being abused by an unnamed caregiver after his daughter, Shannon Amos, raised concerns to local law enforcemen­t.

“The past two weeks shattered our world. My dad, a victim of elder abuse and financial exploitati­on,” she wrote on Instagram. The Custer County Sheriff’s Office is looking into the complaint, the Colorado Bureau of Investigat­ion said.

Last week, Shannon Amos

started a Gofundme with the goal of raising $500,000to “be entrusted to a special fund for my father.”

In his statement, John Amos said he did not want the fundraiser. “I want the Gofundme campaign about me to stop immediatel­y, and the funds subsequent­ly returned to those who made donations. My son and I will reveal more informatio­n at the appropriat­e time.”

Lil Wayne can’t remember most songs, cites epilepsy

Rapper Lil Wayne is one of the

most successful and influentia­l musical artists of this century, yet he can’t remember most of the music he’s made, he revealed during a recent interview.

Lil Wayne, 40, born as Dwayne Michael Carter Jr., discussed his nearly three-decade career in an interview with Rolling Stone published June 10.

The five-time Grammy Award winner said he can’t decipher between much of his past album releases. Wayne attributes his memory loss to epilepsy.

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WATCHARA PHOMICINDA — STAFF PHOTOGRAPH­ER Going swimmingly: One-year-old Romie Gomez excitedly chases after a toy while being assisted by her dad, Hector, during a swim lesson at Hunt Park Pool in Riverside on Monday.
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