This story will surely go down not only in the history of music, but also in the history of modern technology. After nearly a quarter of a century since the release of The Beatles’ last album, a new song by the legendary foursome – “Now and Then” – was born. In his time, John Lennon started to write it, but did not finish it.
It should be clarified that during Lennon’s lifetime only its demo version (draft version) was released, which never became a full-fledged song. After the tragic death of the author, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr made the first attempt to “finish” the song in the mid-90s, but for technical reasons it was never done, and with the death of George Harrison in 2001, the song seems to have been completely forgotten.
That all changed in the early 2020s, when director Peter Jackson began work on the film Get Back, commissioned by Disney Plus. His team managed to develop technology to process almost any tune using artificial intelligence.
