Sir Paul McCartney teases first performance of new Beatles song recorded with AI [Video]

Sir Paul McCartney is back on the road and his new tour appears to include a performance of the last ever Beatles song, created with AI.

His reveal comes after fellow Beatle, Ringo Starr, was forced to scrap concerts and ‘get rest’ after becoming unwell while performing in New York.

Sir Paul, 82, posted a montage of his tour preparation on Instagram, which included a clip from the Now and Then music on the screen behind him.

The track features vocals from John Lennon, discovered on an old cassette tape and ‘extricated’ with artificial intelligence to create the song.

It was a half-written, seemingly lost song from 1977 which Sir Paul and Ringo worked together to revive, along with guitar tracks from George Harrison, who died in 2001.

Ahead of the release, Sir Paul had to clear up that nothing had been ‘artificially or synthetically’ createdafter some confusion …