The music world is in for a surprise as Paul McCartney announced on Tuesday that artificial intelligence was utilized to extract John Lennon’s voice from an old demo and create what he calls “the last Beatles record,” years after the band dissolved. McCartney, who is now 80, revealed in a BBC interview that the tech was employed to isolate the Beatles’ vocals from background noises during the production of Peter Jackson’s 2021 documentary series, “The Beatles: Get Back.” The upcoming track is scheduled to drop sometime later this year, according to McCartney. Jackson was able to separate John’s voice from a poor-quality cassette and piano using AI, according to McCartney. He said that the filmmaker was able to tell the machine “That’s a voice, this is a guitar, lose the guitar.”
McCartney stated, “When we came to make what will be the last Beatles record, it was a demo that John had that we worked on,” he added. “We were able to take John’s voice and get it pure through this AI so then we could mix the record as you would do. It gives you some sort of leeway.” While McCartney did not reveal the demo’s title, the BBC and other sources claim that it is probably an unfinished 1978 love song by Lennon called “Now and Then,” which was included on a cassette labeled “For Paul” that McCartney had received from Lennon’s widow, Yoko Ono.
In addition, McCartney praised AI technology as “kind of scary but exciting,” and said, “We will just have to see where that leads.” Meanwhile, the same technology enabled him to “duet” virtually with Lennon, who was killed in 1980, on “I’ve Got a Feeling” at Glastonbury Festival last year. The Beatles’ recording was most likely created using a process known as “source separation,” according to multimedia artist Holly Herndon, who has a Ph.D. in composition from Stanford University. “This allows you to extract a voice from a recording, isolating it so that you might accompany it with new instrumentation,” she explained. McCartney will also open an exhibition at London’s National Portrait Gallery later this month, featuring never-before-seen photos he took during the Beatles’ early days of “Beatlemania” in 1963-64, including portraits of Ringo Starr, George Harrison, and Lennon, as well as Beatles manager Brian Epstein.
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