McCartney has recorded bass guitar and Starr plays drums. Whether the musicians can also be heard together on a track is not clear. The record is reportedly almost ready, although nothing has been officially announced yet.
It would be the first Stones album with original work since 2005. Keith Richards revealed last month that new music was on the way.
Although The Rolling Stones and The Beatles both started in England in the 1960s and the musicians have often encountered each other, they rarely worked together. On the 1965 Stones song “We Love You,” McCartney and Lennon sing backing vocals. That same year Brian Jones played saxophone on the Beatles song ‘You Know My Name (Look Up the Number)’. In 1968, Lennon and Yoko Ono competed in the TV special ‘The Rolling Stones’ Rock and Roll Circus’.