Sir Paul McCartney has confirmed the “final Beatles record” will be released later this year with help from AI technology and a famed Kiwi director.
The song’s title was not given by McCartney when he spoke to BBC Radio 4′s Today programme, although it is most likely Now And Then, a 1978 John Lennon song.
When the Beatles were creating their career-spanning Anthology series in 1995, Now And Then had already been discussed as a potential “reunion song” for them.
The demo was given to McCartney by Yoko Ono, Lennon’s widow, a year earlier. It was one of several songs Lennon recorded on a tape titled “For Paul” just before he died in 1980.
Two of those tracks, Free As A Bird and Real Love, were polished by producer Jeff Lynne and published in 1995 and 1996, making them the Beatles’ first “new” songs in 25 years.