We’re about to get ‘new’ music from the Beatles!
Paul McCartney has revealed that he is creating what he is calling the ‘final Beatles record’. And he’s doing so with the help of AI!
In a new interview with BBC Radio 4’s Best Of Today, the 80-year-old musician shared:
“We just finished it up and it’ll be released this year.”
Paul said that the track will include vocals from the late John Lennon, who was killed at the age of 40 when he was fatally shot in December 1980. He explained that AI was used to “extricate” John’s voice from an old demo.
He stated:
“It was a demo that John had that we worked on. We were able to take John;s voice and get it pure through this AI.
Then we could mix the record, as you would normally do. So it gives you some sort of leeway.”
According to Paul, director Peter Jackson used similar tech in the 201 documentary series titled The Beatles: Get Back. The documentary covered the making of the 1970 album Let It Be:
“We were able to use that kind of thing when Peter Jackson did. He could separate them with AI. He could tell the machine, ‘This is a voice, this is a guitar, lose the guitar.’ And he did that. So it has great uses.”
The BBC reported that the song Paul extracted John’s vocals from is a 1978 track that John wrote called “Now And Then.” The song was recorded on a boombox shortly before John passed away, and Yoko Ono famously gave the song to Paul on a cassette that was simply labeled “For Paul.”
