Rest Beatles Reunion: Ringo Starr and Paul McCartney play Lennon

The songs of the "Bermuda Tapes" are among the last sound documents that John Lennon recorded before his assassination. They were created as demo material for a new album, which did not come anymore. To date, the songs have not appeared in album form.

At least for the song "Grow Old With Me", Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr, the remaining ex-Beatles, have now changed. The song was recorded for Rigo Starr's upcoming album "What's My Name", which will be released in October.

The collaboration between McCartney and Starr is not without its example. Even after the breakup of the cult band Beatles in 1970, individual members of the band cooperated again and again. Especially McCartney and Starr never lost contact and collaborated on numerous albums. Also on stage appearances are guest appearances of the two not uncommon. Most recently, Starr and McCartney appeared together in December 2018 and July 2019.

Nonetheless, recordings in common often attract attention: until the violent death of John Lennon in 1980, fans of the Beatles had hoped for a reunion of the band. After Lennon's death, this hope was also projected on his sons Julian and Sean Lennon, who are also musicians.

Rumors of a forthcoming Beatles reanimation finally ended with the death of George Harrison in 2001. Since then, McCartney and Starr have collaborated on a number of Beatles projects of a more nostalgic nature: reworking the Beatles story into film, musicals and music. The film Yesterday, which came in the summer of 2019 in the cinemas, but the two were not involved.

How much material John Lennon's "Bermuda Tapes" still contains is not clear. So far, only excerpts have been published in a smartphone app, the Lennon's widow Yoko Ono 2015 in favor of the Foundation "Why Hunger?" published.