British rock band The Beatles have announced the release of the last song on which all members of the group worked, Sky News reports. The composition with the vocals of the murdered John Lennon tried to finish in the 1990s, but only now new technologies have allowed to qualitatively extract his voice from the demo recording to add to the arrangement of other members of the group.
Next week Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr will release the last song The Beatles worked on as a full band, Sky News reports. After half a century, the composition, which features Lennon’s voice and Harrison’s playing, has been completed thanks to new technology.
According to the channel, the first demo version of the track Now and Then was recorded by John Lennon in the 1970s in his New York flat. In addition to his voice, it features a piano arrangement. After Lennon’s murder in 1980, his wife Yoko Ono gave the recording to the remaining members of the band, along with the songs Free As A Bird and Real Love, which were released in the 1990s. At that time Harrison, McCartney and Starr also recorded new parts and completed a rough mix of Now and Then, but did not release the track due to difficulties in separating Lennon’s vocals and piano part.
New sound restoration techniques are solving the problems, the article noted. McCartney and Starr completed the track last year, which features an old Lennon demo, electric and acoustic guitar from Harrison, who died in 2001, and backing vocals from the band’s other songs.
Paul McCartney stated that Lennon’s voice sounds “crystal clear” in the new composition. He said the song Now and Then turned out to be “emotional” and “a true record of The Beatles” because it features all the members of the band. “To still be working on The Beatles’ music in 2023 and to release a new song that people haven’t heard yet is amazing,” McCartney emphasized.
John Lennon’s son Sean admitted to Sky News that it’s “incredibly moving” to wait for The Beatles’ new song. “It’s the last song my dad, Paul, George and Ringo got to record together,” he recalled. – It’s like a time capsule – it feels like it was meant to be.
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