John Lennon and George Harrison come to life in the Beatles’ latest song

“Occasionally” will be largely due to the work of the New Zealand director Peter Jackson and his technical team, authors of the documentary “Come back” featuring real footage from the recording of the Beatles’ last album, made with an old Lennon cassette

In 1980, after Lennon’s murder at the Dakota Building in New York, “We really knew this was over,” McCartney says in the film released today.

However, in 1994, “amazingly enough, an interesting opportunity arose to make other music again,” and the three members met at that time to retrieve songs that had not made it into the studio.

“When the three of us started making music again, John would be there, that was obvious. I was talking to Yoko and she said, ‘Oh, I think I have a tape of John’,” said George Harrison then, while the film memories.

They recorded “Free as a Bird” and “True Love”and they started doing the same with “Occasionally”but the piano ate Lennon’s voice and there was no way to separate them, leaving the song “shelved in 1995,” according to McCartney.

Harrison’s death in 2001 “took the wind out of the Beatles’ sails,” but that didn’t stop them from continuing their success nearly a quarter of a century later. “Come back”McCartney saw that progress now made it possible to restore the old effort.

“Paul called me and told me he wanted to work at ‘Occasionally’. He played the bass and I played the drums,” Starr explains, while parts of the guitar recorded by Harrison in 1995 were retained and string arrangements were added with musicians hiding the fact that they were playing a Beatles piece .

Lennon’s son Sean is convinced that his father, because of his innovative and experimental nature, would have loved the idea of ​​taking his voice from an old cassette and releasing a new Beatles song.

“‘Occasionally’ It’s probably the last Beatles song. “We all worked on it, it really is a Beatles recording,” says McCartney.