Paul McCartney announces the ‘last song’ of the Beatles

British musician Paul McCartney announced this Thursday the release in November of the song “Now and Then”, the “last song” of The Beatles, in which old recordings of John Lennon were used.

The new song, which both Lennon and George Harrison worked on in the 1970s and McCartney and Ringo Starr completed last year, will be released on November 2.

“There it is, John’s voice, clear and crystalline. It’s pretty exciting. We all touch it, it is original recording from The BeatlesMcCartney said in a statement.

Artificial intelligence brings back Lennon in “the last song”

The musician told in detail in an interview for BBC which was used Artificial Intelligence (AI) “draw out” Lennon’s interpretation original modelwhose sound was so bad that the remaining band members gave up using it for decades.

The a song will also be included in the new reissue “The Red Album” and “The Blue Album”the compilations of the quartet’s best songs originally released in 1973.

“That in 2023 we will still be working on Beatles music and will soon release a new song “I think it’s pretty exciting that the public hasn’t heard,” McCartney said.

Ringo Starr: It was very exciting for all of us

Ringo Starr, second group survivorsstated for his part that “it was the closest we’ll ever come to getting him (John) back to roomso it was very exciting for all of us. “It was like John was there,” he explained.

“Now and then” wrote Lennon after the Beatles broke up in 1970. and their initial recordings They have been circulating unofficially for years.

After the death of the musician, killed in NY In December 1980, his widow, Yoko Ono, gave the song to McCartney on a tape called “For Paul”, which also contained early versions of “Free As A Bird” and “Real Love”.

The remaining band members used those last two demos to release two easy1995 and 1996, within the album “Anthology“.