Hear Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr come together for Dolly Parton Beatles cover
‘Let It Be’ will feature on Dolly’s upcoming rock album
The two remaining members of The Beatles have come together once more to guest on Dolly Parton's cover of the Fab Four’s ‘Let It Be’.
The track is the latest single to be released ahead of the country legend’s upcoming rock album ‘Rockstar’.
Peter Frampton and Fleetwood Mac's Mick Fleetwood also appear on the track.
Hear: Dolly Parton with Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr – ‘Let It Be’
Speaking on live streaming online network TalkShopLive, Parton said: “I was so proud of getting to sing songs like Let It Be with Paul McCartney. He played the piano also and Ringo played the drums,” she said.
Asked about having brought about a sort-of Beatles reunion, she added: “Well I didn’t really think of that at the start.
“I just asked Paul, because it’s his song, he co-wrote that. So I thought if I could get him to play, I asked him to sing on it and he said ‘yeah I’ll sing and I’ll play if you want me to’.
“And then it was after he’d done his vocal that I thought, you know what, because we had done a lot of tracks before… so we had a drummer on it, and we thought, well why don’t we just replace the drummer with Ringo?
“And that’s what we did because I thought wow that would be all the (living) Beatles.”
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'Rockstar' was conceived after country star Parton was controversially nominated for the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame.
It is set for release in November and will contain a handful of originals and a host of covers, with a whole constellation of confirmed guest stars including Sting, Rob Halford of Judas Priest, Steven Tyler of Aerosmith, Joan Jett, Lynyrd Skynyrd and many more.