Fifty years after their breakup, the Beatles won their eighth Grammy.

You may still hear the Beatles’ music “here, there, and everywhere.”

Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr, the band’s surviving members, completed and released the song “Now and Then” last year. The song won a Grammy on Sunday for best rock performance, the first time the Fab Four have been honored by the Recording Academy since 1997.

The Beatles split up in 1970, and the victory comes 55 years later.

McCartney referred to it as “the last Beatles song.” Written by the late John Lennon, who passed away in 1980, “Now and Then” includes Lennon’s 1970 recordings of original vocals that were artificially preserved.

At the Grammys Premiere Ceremony, which took place before the main program, Sean Ono Lennon, the son of John Lennon and Yoko Ono, won the prize.

“The Beatles have done such incredible work and they’re still in the culture and people still listen to the music. As far as I’m concerned, it’s the greatest band of all time,” Lennon said.

“I feel like the world can’t afford to forget about people like The Beatles. We need this music in this world. We need peace and love and we need the music of the ‘60s to stay alive.”

The song was a collaborative effort even though Lennon and George Harrison passed away years before it was released. Along with Lennon’s revived vocals, “Now and Then” also includes guitar recordings by the late Harrison from the 1990s, new instrumentation by McCartney and Ringo Starr, and more.

At the 7th Grammy Awards in 1965, the Beatles took home their first and second Grammys for their classic hit song “A Hard Day’s Night,” which won them best new artist and best performance by a singing ensemble.

The Beatles’ iconic and ground-breaking record “Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band” earned them two additional Grammys for best contemporary album and album of the year prior to their breakup in 1970. They won three more awards in 1997, including two for the song “Free As a Bird,” which was used in their music film “The Beatles Anthology,” and one for best long form music video.

Additionally, “Now and Then” received a nomination for record of the year, which was given out at Sunday’s televised Grammy ceremony. Kendrick Lamar’s song “Not Like Us” earned him the prize.

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