Sir Paul McCartney recently promised to create 'the final Beatles record', complete with vocals by John Lennon.

Now it seems as if he might have been beaten to it by a complete unknown – and the result is causing enormous panic across the music industry.

Sir Paul explained how artificial-intelligence technology had been used to 'extricate' Lennon's voice from a 1978 demo so that he could complete the song, which will be released later this year. 

But he also emphasised that 'nothing has been artificially or synthetically created', with AI simply cleaning up what was already there.

However, the same certainly doesn't apply to a computer-generated video that emerged recently showing Lennon, more than 40 years after his death, singing an entirely new song. 

Images of him performing a track called Everybody But You have been shared on social media platforms, winning positive reviews from listeners.

Some are even praising it as good enough to have been released by the Fab Four themselves.

Everybody But You was written earlier this year by an artist using the pseudonym Kid Klava who confirmed that, rather that singing it himself, he had used AI to create a performance from the Beatles star without permission from his estate.

He boasted on TikTok: 'I realised I can get John to sing it for me! And why not get Paul on backing vocals while I'm at it?'

Meanwhile, another post features images of soul legend Stevie Wonder performing one of Kid Klava's songs.