After months of teasing, the long-awaited “final song” from the Beatles, ‘Now and Then,’ dropped on Thursday. Bringing the legendary rock group back for one last track was made possible through artificial intelligence, which helped bring together the musical stylings of John Lennon, George Harrison, Paul McCartney, and Ringo Starr to complete the new song.
‘Now and Then’ is based on a 1978 demo by Beatles lead singer John Lennon, who was assassinated in New York City in 1980.
“I do remember living at the Dakota with dad and mom,” Lennon’s son, Sean Ono Lennon, said in the ‘Now and Then’ behind-the-scenes documentary. “There’s this impression that my dad stopped doing music for a while to raise me, which I think is partially true in terms of him not touring and not fulfilling any major record label obligations. But he was always playing music around the house. He was always making demos.”
Lennon said he recalled his father recording into cassette recorders and that his mother, artist and peace activist Yoko Ono, gave the tapes to the other ba
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