BarcelonaPaul McCartney has revealed this Tuesday that he has used artificial intelligence to extract the voice of John Lennon from a demo and complete “the final recording of the Beatles”. This has been said by McCartney on the occasion of an exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery in London. According to the BBC, everything indicates that the recording would be Now and thenan unfinished composition by John Lennon, from 1978. The theme is expected to see the light this year, although McCartney has not specified the date. “We had John’s voice and a piano and we could separate them with the AI,” he says. Even so, the British musician is a little worried about how far technology can go: “It’s a bit scary, but it’s exciting because it’s the future.”
the history of new theme of the Beatles began when the widow of John Lennon, Yoko Ono, gave McCartney a demo where he was Now and then to include it on a group compilation released in 1995. But, according to McCartney, George Harrison thought the song was “crap” and refused to work on it. “It didn’t have a very good title, it had to be redone a bit, but it had a nice verse and John sang it. But George didn’t like it, and because The Beatles were a democracy, we didn’t do it,” McCartney explains.
According to the BBC, the turning point with the use of technology in the Beatles’ legacy came with Peter Jackson’s documentary Get back, where the New Zealand filmmaker used computers to isolate the voice of the musicians and the sound of the instruments from background noise. “Peter Jackson was able to get John’s voice off a cassette,” recalls McCartney.
2023-06-14 10:38:30
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