The Rolling Stones are still touring in their 70s and 80, while Bruce Springsteen, aged 73, recently played for three hours at the RDS in Dublin. The original generation of rock icons is on a mission to redefine what it is to be old. McCartney is in his 80s – shouldn’t he be taking it easy? But they never entirely fell out, and by the late 70s, the prickly Lennon had started to reassess his relationship with McCartney. They were famously not getting along when they split in April 1970.
I thought the Beatles all hated each other by the end? After Lennon’s death, his widow, Yoko Ono, gave McCartney a collection of cassettes labelled “For Paul”. Don’t be surprised by his savvy – he’s been on TikTok for three years, possibly longer than TikTok has existed. The 80-year-old singer has revealed he has used software to “extricate” Lennon’s voice from an old cassette recording. No, Paul McCartney may have inflicted the Frog Song (aka We All Stand Together) on us, but he hasn’t yet sold his soul to the forces of darkness. Is this another of those terrible AI songs that have been doing the rounds, like that fake Oasis one? Or the AI Weeknd/Drake duet that was almost as dystopian as an actual Weeknd/Drake duet? Before Artificial Intelligence conquers humanity and sends us to toil in its sugar mines, it’s taking a moment to help Paul McCartney complete a new Beatles tune using an old John Lennon demo.
It’s all thanks to our machine overlords. Ob-La-Di.Obla-what? A new Beatles song? How is that possible, considering John Lennon died in 1980?
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