At a time when AI is causing fear and anxiety in the music industry, the musician, who will turn 81 on June 18, explained in an interview with the BBC that Lennon's voice was extracted from an old cassette tape.
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“We made what will be the last Beatles recording, it was a demo by John, which we worked on,” said Paul McCartney.
“We just finished it,” he said, before announcing that the track will be released by the end of the year.
“We were able to capture John’s voice and make it pure through AI. So we managed to mix the recording, like you faria normally. This gives some kind of leeway,” she added.
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In April 1970, six months after the release of the album “Abbey Road” and a month before the release of “Let it Be”, the Beatles announced the group's separation.
During their 10-year career, the Beatles, formed by Paul McCartney, John Lennon, George Harrison and Ringo Starr, released 14 highly successful albums.
Despite the deaths of Lennon in 1980 and Harrison in 2001, “Beatlemania” remains very strong around the world, and the possibilities offered by AI have already motivated several attempts by fans to bring them together, or to alter the most recent works by McCartney with his voice when he was young.
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“Very interesting” phenomenon
when being questioned about such initiatives, McCartney revealed the preparation of the new song, whose name was not disclosed.
According to the BBC, the song is “probably” a 1978 Lennon composition titled “Now and Then,” which almost made it onto a 1995 compilation.
The track was on a cassette entitled “For Paul”, recorded by Lennon shortly before he was murdered in New York in 1980.
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The entry of AI into the music industry presents many financial and ethical challenges. The procedure is used to recreate works by renowned musicians. With technology, fake works of artists such as Eminem, Drake, The Weeknd or Oasis have already been created.
Recently, British singer Sting stated that artists will end up in a “battle to defend human capital against AI”.
“I don’t believe we can allow machines to take over. We have to be cautious,” declared the 71-year-old former Police singer. “Maybe it will work for electronic music. But for songs, which express emotions, I don't believe I get emotionalaria”He added.
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Paul McCartney considered the phenomenon “very interesting”. “It’s something we’re all coming to terms with at the moment, trying to understand what it means,” he commented.
The artist, composer of songs such as “Yesterday”, the most played song on the radio in the 80th century, maintains intense activity in his solo career. Last year, shortly after turning XNUMX, he was the oldest headliner in the history of the famous English festival Glastonbury.
At the end of June, the National Portrait Gallery in London will open an exhibition of 250 never-before-seen photographs of the Beatles that “Sir Paul” took between 1963 and 1964.
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