Last week, The Beatles musician Paul McCartney announced in a BBC interview that he is using artificial intelligence technology to “untangle” his former bandmate’s voice John Lennon from an old demo to create a “final Beatles record”. This has caused a lot of excitement from fans all over the world, but it has also led to some confusion. Some wondered if the use of artificial intelligence meant that Lennon’s voice was artificially replicated. McCartney is piping to clear the air around the questions.
The musician tweeted:
“We’ve seen some confusion and speculation about this. There seems to be a lot of conjecture out there. I can’t say much at this stage, but to be clear, nothing has been created artificially or synthetically. It’s all real and we all play with it. We have cleaned up some existing recordings, a process that has been going on for years.”
While the song has not been identified by McCartney, it is widely expected to be Lennon’s 1978 song “Now and Then”, one of four demos provided by Yoko Ono for possible use in the 1995 Beatles Anthology project. Recorded by a piano-playing Lennon in his Dakota apartment on a cassette stereo, two of the songs – “Free As A Bird” and “Real Love” – were deemed usable for the project, with the three then-surviving Beatles adding instrumentation and harmony vocals.
McCartney, Ringo StarrAND George Harrison, who died in 2001, also provided backing for a third song, titled “Now and Then”, but the sound quality of Lennon’s demo was deemed “garbage” by Harrison and the song was shelved. (The surviving Beatles did not record backing for the fourth song, “Grow Old With Me.”)
In the BBC interview, McCartney said that new AI technology that wasn’t available in 1995 now allows him to “extricate” Lennon’s voice from dodgy cassette recordings. McCartney also said in the Tweet that more news will be available and that “something,” apparently the song, will be shared “later this year.” “We hope you love it as much as we do,” he wrote.
As a lifelong Beatles fan, I’m really looking forward to this record being released. Check out Paul McCartney’s Tweet below and let us know what your favorite Beatles songs are below.
It was great to see such an exciting response to our upcoming Beatles project. No one is more excited than us to share something with you throughout the year.
We have seen some confusion and speculation about this. There seems to be a lot of conjecture out there. I can’t say too much…
— Paul McCartney (@PaulMcCartney) June 22, 2023
by Jessica Fisher
Source: Geek Tyrant
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