‘Last’ Beatles song due out next week

LONDON – A much-anticipated “new” Beatles record, created with the help of artificial intelligence, will be released next Thursday, former band members Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr have revealed.

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 Nov 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 same evening, before…