The Beatles releasing ‘final’ album this year — with a little help from AI
nypost.comreports the BBC.“We just finished it up and it’ll be released this year,” McCartney, 80, told the outlet. The musician said that in order to use Lennon’s voice, he turned to “Lord of the Rings” director Peter Jackson for help. “He [Jackson] was able to extricate John’s voice from a ropey little bit of cassette that had John’s voice and a piano,” explained McCartney. “He could separate them with A.I. — he could tell the machine, ‘That’s the voice, that’s the guitar, lose the guitar.’ And he did that, so it has great uses.” “We were able to take John’s voice and get it pure through this A.I.
so then we could mix the record as you would normally do,” continued the singer. While the former Beatles frontman did not specify the name of the track, it is speculated to be titled “Now And Then” which was composed by Lennon before his death in 1980.
According to McCartney, he originally received the demo in 1994 from Lennon’s widow, Yoko Ono, 90, alongside several other songs on a cassette labeled “For Paul.”The Post has reached out to McCartney for comment.
McCartney revealed that the group attempted to initially record the song in 1995 but the session quickly ended after various issues with the late singer’s vocals emerged. “It was one day — one afternoon, really — messing with it,” music producer Jeff Lynn, 75, said. “The song had a chorus but is almost totally lacking in verses.
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