Nearly 53 years after their breakup, The Beatles are back on the record with a new, never-before-seen song that was recorded and mixed with the help of artificial intelligence, allowing the legendary group to reunite, even though two of its members have been dead for years.

The new song will go on sale at 15:00 (Greece time). November 2nd. The day before, a 12-minute documentary will be shown on the Beatles’ YouTube channel.

The song “Now and Then» is based on a recording he had made in his decade 1970 John Lennon, which was given in 1994 to the rest of the band members by his widow, Yoko Ono.

This recording was complete (with voice and piano), but not of good enough quality to be released.

When they received the recording from Yoko Ono, the three (then) members of the Beatles reworked it and completed it, but did not release it because with the technology available to them at the time they could not separate John Lennon’s voice from music, maintaining the quality of the recording. Also, as Paul McCartney recently said, George Harrison “didn’t like” the song.

This was achieved in the 2021 documentary series Get Back by Peter Jackson. The creator of “The Lord of the Rings”, “extracted” Lennon’s voice from a tape, separating it from the sound of the piano, with the help of modern technologies.

“That’s how we ended up with John’s voice, crystal clear,” he explained McCartney in his announcement. “It’s very moving and we’re playing on top, it’s a real Beatles recording,” added the 81-year-old musician.

Electric and acoustic guitar recordings George Harrison had made in 1995, six years before his death, were added to the original track. The song was completed last year in a Los Angeles studio, with Ringo Starr on drums, McCartney on piano and bass and the voices of the two living Beatles.

“It was very emotional for all of us. It was as if John was among us,” said 83-year-old Ringo Starr.

In April 1970, six months after the album ‘Abbey Road’ was released and a month before ‘Let it be’, The Beatles announced their break-up. In their ten years of collaboration, they recorded 14 albums, sold almost 1 billion records and shot many films. Despite Lennon’s death in 1980 and Harrison’s death in 2001, “Beatlemania” lives on around the world, and the possibilities offered by artificial intelligence have already led to efforts to “reunite” the group.