Next Thursday, the world’s most famous music group, The Beatles, will probably release their last song called Now and Then. The creation of the recording was made possible by artificial intelligence, which was able to separate John Lennon’s voice from the piano accompaniment and all the unwanted noise on the hitherto difficult-to-use recording of an unfinished song from the 1970s and mix it into the resulting arrangement.
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George Harrison, John Lennon, Ringo Starr a Paul McCartney | Foto: zdroj: Flickr.com, Roger, CC BY 2.0
The release of the song more than 53 years after the breakup of the famous quartet was announced today by its last surviving members Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr. The basis for the recording was a demo tape that, after Lennon’s death, the widow of the guitarist, singer and composer Yoko Ono gave to the remaining members of the band.
They did finish the song, but not in quality enough to release it. This was made possible by the most modern technology for McCartney and Starr. The electric and acoustic guitars on the recording are from 1995.
The story of the song Now and Then begins in the late 1970s, when Lennon (1940-1980) recorded a demo with vocals and piano in New York’s Dakota Building. In 1994, Yoko Ono gave the recording to McCartney, Starr and George Harrison – along with Lennon’s demos of Free as a Bird and Real Love, which were later completed and released as part of the Anthology project.
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Although the remaining three “Beetles” completed the rough mix of Now and Then in collaboration with producer Jeff Lynne, due to the technical limitations of the time, it was impossible to separate Lennon’s voice from the piano, and the song remained in the archive.
The famous New Zealand director Peter Jackson later entered the game, making the three-part documentary The Beatles: Get Back. With the help of the so-called MAL audio technology, Jackson and his team were able to separate individual instruments and voices, which, among other things, led to the newly remixed release of the Revolver album in 2022. The question arose of what to do with the Now and Then demo, and the technicians actually managed to satisfactorily isolate Lennon’s voice.
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“Suddenly there it was, John’s voice, crystal clear,” McCartney said. “It’s quite emotional. And we’re all playing there, it’s a real Beatles record,” assures McCartney, who together with Starr decided to finish the song again in 2022.
In addition to Lennon, it is McCartney who sings in it, who also took on the bass guitar. Drums newly recorded by Ringo Starr. The guitars are from Harrison’s older recordings, but one guitar solo was also recorded by McCartney.
Loops were recorded at Capitol Studios in Los Angeles. Producer Giles Martin and McCartney also used original vocals from the hits Here, There and Everywhere, Eleanor Rigby and Because.
The new single will be released on vinyl and digitally along with Love Me Do, The Beatles’ first ever single released in 1962. Then on November 10th new, 21-song expanded editions of the compilations known as The Red Album (1962-1966) will be released. and The Blue Album (1967-1970).
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