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@hans1671102377 · 02 Nov 2023

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There it is: the very last Beatles song “Now and Then”.

Powered by AI. Beatles members Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr, using an old John Lennon tape and artificial intelligence, created a final song in which the entire band played The Beatles have been apart for decades, and a reunion is impossible due to the death of George Harrison and John Lennon. Nevertheless, the latter had a hand in the song 'Now and Then', released this week. Indeed, the track is based on Lennon's old recordings, which were edited with artificial intelligence.

“My father would have loved this, he was never surprised to experiment a bit,” Lennon's son Sean Ono told The Verge.

Working on it since the 90s
Ringo Starr and Paul McCartney, along with fellow Beatle George Harrison, had been working on the song's tape since the 90s, but they failed to make a good song out of it. For example, the piano was hard to hear and it was extremely difficult to distinguish Lennon's voice from the instruments.
The song therefore remained on the shelf, after which Harrison also died in 2001. But thanks to recent AI developments, the remaining two band members were now able to make something out of it to release. Watch the short documentary about the making of the song below. McCartney thinks it's the last song The Beatles will ever produce. “And we all played a part in it. It's really a Beatles recording” #TheBeatles Source: Bright