Sons of the Beatles Come Together to Release New Music

It’s an intergenerational music affair as the offspring of iconic rock band the Beatles have teamed up to release new music together.

Ringo Starr’s oldest son, drummer Zak Starkey, 59, along with John Lennon’s son Sean Ono Lennon, 49, and Paul McCartney’s son, James McCartney, 47, recently shared a lengthy snippet of their first collaborative single, “Rip Off,” on Instagram, and we have to admit, it sounds a bit reminiscent of the Beatles.

Sean and James are on vocals, while Starkey’s band, Mantra of the Cosmos, provides the backing music.

In a June 13 interview with The Telegraph, Starkey made sure to clarify that Mantra of the Cosmos isn’t just the Fab Four 2.0.

“It’s not,” he said. “It’s like Mantra of the Cosmos with them in it. It’s Sean of the Cosmos and James of the Cosmos. It’s still my band.”

Starr, who appeared on the December 2023/January 2024 cover of AARP: The Magazine, said in the accompanying story that Starkey has always been fascinated by music. “When my son Zak was 9, he came running in with a vinyl record,” Starr said. “ ‘You’ve got to hear this, Dad. It’s this guy named Ray Charles!’ And it was Ray Charles’ big band. I didn’t say, ‘Eh, I’ve heard hundreds of big band records.’ I took the position, ‘Well, let’s hear it together.’ ”

The “Photograph” singer described his relationship with the Beatles as having “three brothers” and said they all “looked out for each other.”

“We all went mad at different times,” Starr added. “You can’t imagine what it was like being in the Beatles. It got bigger and crazier.”

The Beatles are one of the most influential rock bands in music history. Known for hit singles like “She Loves You,” “Help!” and “Come Together,” the eight-time Grammy Award-winning quartet has sold over 600 million albums, making it the biggest-selling music group of all time, worldwide.

The Beatles released their final single, “Now and Then,” in 2023. The song was created using artificial intelligence, which isolated the late John Lennon’s vocals from his piano playing on a home recording.

“My dad would have loved that,” Sean said in a promotional film at the time. “He was never shy to experiment with recording technology.”