'Last' Beatles song to release on November 2
The announcement was made by former band members
October 26, 2023
Former Beatles members Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr on Tuesday revealed that a much-anticipated "new" record, created with the help of artificial intelligence, will be released on November 2.
"Now And Then", first written and sung by ex-Beatle John Lennon and developed by the rest of the band, has now been finally finished by McCartney and Starr -- and AI -- decades after its original recording.
McCartney, 81, announced its imminent release in June, in what has been dubbed in a promotional trailer "the last Beatles song".
The track will be unveiled at 1300 GMT on November 2 by Apple Corps, Capitol and Universal Music Enterprises (UMe), with a music video debuting the following day.
A 12-minute documentary written and directed by Oliver Murray -- best known for a 2022 biopic mini-series on The Rolling Stones -- will premiere on YouTube the evening, before featuring commentary from McCartney and Starr.
"Now And Then" was recorded by Lennon in the late 1970s at his home in New York´s Dakota Building, and also features piano music.
Working with Peter Jackson, the film director behind the 2021 documentary series "The Beatles: Get Back", AI was used to separate Lennon´s voice from the piano chords.
