Ringo - New Beatles Song 'Now and Then' Like Getting Lennon Back
Sir Ringo Starr says the new Beatles song "Now and Then" is the "closest we’ll ever come to having" the late John Lennon back.
The 83-year-old drummer became very emotional whilst working with Sir Paul McCartney, the only other surviving member of the iconic band, on their new Artificial Intelligence-assisted song.
The track is a demo recorded by Lennon, who was killed in December 1980 at the age of just 40, in the wake of The Beatles break-up. It features his voice and him playing the piano at his Dakota building apartment in New York.
Ringo and Paul, 81, used the same technology to isolate and improve Lennon's vocal that was employed to enhance the audio in Peter Jackson’s documentary The Beatles: Get Back.
Discussing the recording process with Radio Times magazine, Ringo said: "He called me up and said he’d like to work on 'Now and Then’, ‘What do you think?’ ‘I think it’s great. So he put the bass on, he sent the files to me. I put the drums on. It was the closest we’ll ever comes to having him [John] back in the room so it was very emotional for all of us. It was like John was there, you know?”
Source: loudwire.com
