John Lennon’s son Julian bumps into late father’s Beatles bandmate Sir Paul McCartney at airport

John Lennon’s son Julian took to Twitter on Saturday after bumping into his late father’s Beatles bandmate Sir Paul McCartney at an airport lounge.

The musician, 59, grinned whereas posing for a black-and-white selfie with the 80-year-old, who revealed he was listening to a observe by John on his Spotify.

Julian wrote in his caption: ‘It’s Wonderful who you run into in an airport Lounge! None aside from Uncle Paul…. So, so pretty, and what are the possibilities… Grateful…. ❤️.’

Earlier this 12 months, Julian instructed how troublesome it was to observe his father’s posthumous Glastonbury efficiency with former bandmate Sir Paul.

John was introduced again to life by way of the magic of video and synthetic intelligence to carry out a duet of the 1969 observe ‘I’ve Bought A Feeling’ alongside Sir Paul, who delivered a beautiful three-hour set on the summer season competition in June.

The enthralling stunt was the brainchild of Beatles documentary Get Again film-maker Peter Jackson, who used machine studying know-how to isolate Lennon’s vocals from decades-old recordings and arranging them to create a facsimile of a dwell efficiency. 

‘I watched it on YouTube — and I type of went: ”Errrr . . . I do not know if I am snug with that.” It shocked me,’ his son instructed Mojo journal.

Julian, whose mom was Lennon’s first spouse Cynthia, was 17 years previous when his father was shot and killed in December of 1980. 

He added that it was initially robust watching his late father being ‘delivered to life’ to carry out along with his previous Beatles bandmate – a stunt which Macca pulled off for the primary time through the opening live performance of his world tour within the U.S. in April.

Julian could not deliver himself to observe the preliminary efficiency, uncertain of how he would take seeing a video of his useless father projected onto an enormous display whereas listening to an eerily correct illustration of his delicate, melodic vocals. 

However with two months having handed because the U.S. live performance by the point Glasto rolled round on the finish of June, Julian determined to chew the bullet and watch Sir Paul’s efficiency within the English countryside.

‘I truly loved it,’ he mentioned, having discovered he’d lastly made peace with the idea of seeing his father play on an enormous display. 

Sir Paul turned the Worthy Farm competition’s oldest ever headliner when he performed per week after his eightieth birthday.

His mammoth set included performances with Foo Fighters frontman Dave Grohl and Bruce Springsteen, in addition to the Lennon duet which wowed the capability crowd. 

Jackson in the meantime, who directed The Lord Of The Rings, mentioned how he was capable of leverage fashionable know-how to facilitate Lennon’s posthumous efficiency – although was reluctant to expose a lot info. 

‘We developed a machine studying system that we taught what a guitar appears like, what a bass appears like, what a voice appears like,’ the New Zealander mentioned.

‘In actual fact, we taught the pc what John appears like and what Paul appears like.’

It’s thought Jackson used the identical methods and custom-made synthetic intelligence to supply the Get Again documentary on The Beatles, separating background noise, devices and speech from the unique mono recordings to allow editors to make use of footage that was in any other case unusable. 

Following the heartwarming duet at Glastonbury, which was extensively praised by followers, Sir Paul admitted: ‘That’s so particular for me. I do know it is digital. There I’m singing with John once more, we’re again collectively.’