Liverpool’s Magical Mystery Tour has long been one of the city’s most in-demand tourist attractions, with fans of The Beatles taken on a city-wide excursion to key locations in the Fab Four’s story. Now it comes with added star power: Sir Paul McCartney himself.

The band’s bassist made an unexpected cameo on a daily tour yesterday (July 20) when guests on the Magical Mystery bus spotted him at a set of traffic lights. After waving to fans in the serendipitous moment, they then received an added bonus when, after waving to fans, McCartney showed them that he was currently on a Facetime call with former bandmate Ringo Starr.

Speaking to the BBC, driver and tour guide Neal Morton said “it was surreal” to spot the musician while on the tour of the city.

“I had pulled up at the traffic lights on Hope Street when who should I see – Sir Paul with Ringo on Facetime”, he said. “He waved to us, and everybody took photos. The passengers could not believe it.”

McCartney was in town ahead of a presentation to actor Stephen Graham (Adolescence, The Irishman) with a companionship of the Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts (LIPA); McCartney is a co-founder of the school and often attends graduation ceremonies for students.

The unofficial tour, named after their 1967 LP, is a two-hour visit to the city’s locations that played a part in the band’s stories, visiting their childhood homes, Strawberry Fields, Penny Lane, and finishing at the Cavern Club, where the group played early shows.

It’s the latest team-up between McCartney and Starr after the pair duetted for the first time on the former’s latest album The Boys of Dungeon Lane, released in May.

Every man knows that the surest way to a woman’s heart is through … hyaluronic acid? Well, that’s the pitch A$AP Rocky uses in a new ad for his line of Fenty Beauty skin products in which he co-stars with company founder and his longtime partner, Rihanna.

The minute-long FentySkin spot posted on Rih’s Instagram on Monday (July 20), is titled “DON’T BE DUMB, USE @fentyskin,” borrowing its name from A$AP’s fourth studio album, Don’t Be Dumb, which dropped in January. In it, the rapper and sometime actor takes on the role of a subway-style hawker, busting into a beauty salon with his loud and proud pitch.

“Ladies, ladies, can I have your attention please,” he says as he opens up his overcoat to reveal rows and rows of high-end beauty products lining the inside of the jacket. “I ain’t sellin’ no gel, I ain’t sellin’ no grease,” he adds as Rihanna sits up at attention and dips her tinted shades down to get a look at the handsome huckster.

Smoothly dropping the product-laden garment to the group, A$AP announces that there’s a new sheriff in town, and he’s showing himself around. That confidence allows him to approach a clearly unimpressed RihRih, asking for two minutes of her time to sell her on his elixirs. “You got two seconds,” she says tersely.

A$AP, his hair pulled up on top with pink oversized curlers, tries to sell her on a daily moisturizer cream, mansplaining what SPF stands for along the way. “Don’t be dumb, you gotta use SPF,” he says smoothly, tipping some out to show off its qualities as Rihanna twists the curler-shaped bottle in her hands and coos, “I kinda like that,” after finding out its invisible on all skin tones.

The rapper tries to sell her on a lip balm as well, which comes with a keychain carrying case he personally designed. His pitch clearly lands, as Rihanna says “I’ll take all of it” at the end, adding in a cha-ching wink to close the deal. Check out other items in the A$AP Rocky x Fenty Skin line here.

Rocky will take his Don’t Be Dumb tour overseas next month, beginning with an Aug. 25 date at ING Arena in Brussels, Belgium.

On Tuesday (July 21), French streaming service Deezer announced that, for the first time, fully AI recordings reached more than 50% of new music uploads on its site “at peak level in June 2026,” according to a press release. The service says that equates to 90,000 AI tracks.

To take its AI policies a step further, Deezer is now vowing to remove any AI track that it suspects has been used in streaming fraud scams as well as AI tracks that haven’t been streamed for six months or more. Previously, the service reported that up to 85% of the streams on fully AI tracks were fraudulent, and when streaming manipulation of any kind was found, Deezer would exclude the streams from royalty payments.

In a previous interview with Billboard, Aurelien Herault, chief innovation officer at Deezer, said that with the influx of new music every day, storage space is a concern for the company: “This is a serious topic for us, and we already removed some content that was using too much space — because it’s not only an economic issue, it’s also an ecological one. Do we need to store all this content so we all have the same catalog and all have a copy of the same things? It’s really a question worth thinking about, and we already have had some discussion to remove some content, especially because a lot of content is not listened to at all.” 

Deezer has been tracking the influx of AI-generated content on its service since January 2025, when it first announced plans to track and tag fully AI-generated recordings. At the time, its proprietary AI detection system flagged that 10% of daily uploads were AI-generated. The service also vowed at the time that all detected songs would be removed from algorithmic recommendations and would not be eligible for editorial playlisting, but would remain on the site for fans who wanted to stream them.

The distinction between “fully” and “partially” AI-generated songs is notable: Deezer’s AI detection tool, like nearly all others on the market, only flags 100% AI-generated recordings from the most prolific models like Suno and Udio. It does not flag or penalize songs partially generated by AI. Deezer claims that more than 13.4 million fully AI-generated tracks were detected and tagged on the service in 2025.

“Deezer has been at the frontline of fighting fraud and reducing payment dilution related to AI music for almost two years,” said Alexis Lanternier, CEO of Deezer. “Now that half of all daily uploads are AI-generated tracks, we are taking additional steps to safeguard the rights of artists and songwriters, while maintaining focus on music that fans actually love. We have reached a pivotal moment, but we have the technology to keep track of the development, and an ambition to do what’s right. If the industry can align and come together to create shared standards, we can build a healthy and sustainable music ecosystem, where great music wins.”