ENTERTAINMENT The Beatles release their last new song "Now and Then

The fresh release features the voices of all four original Beatles performers, with surviving members Paul McCartney and Ringo

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Starr essentially finishing what was initially an old demo recording by John Lennon. The track draws in many ways on group's

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The original "Now and Then," recorded by Lennon more than 40 years ago, came from the same group of demo recordings that his former bandmates

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Written by Lennon in 1978 and and completed by McCartney and Starr last year, "Now and Then" also features sounds by the band's late guitarist George Harrison,

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using pieces of one of his studio recordings from 1995. McCartney also added a new string guitar part with help from Giles Martin

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"Now and Then," in part, used artificial intelligence to separate out Lennon's original vocals before incorporating McCartney and Starr's musical

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additions in the studio last year. A short documentary film chronicling the making of "Now and Then" was released Wednesday on The Beatles'

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official YouTube channel, ahead of an upcoming music video which is expected to drop roughly 24 hours after the release of the song itself.

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