In an interview with BBC Radio earlier this month, Paul McCartney said: The Beatles’ last song was made with the help of artificial intelligence And it will be released this year. However, the singer said on social media this week that there was confusion because the song was not created “artificially or synthetically.”
McCartney, 80, told BBC Radio’s Martha Carney about the sound in the 2021 documentary The Beatles: Get Back, which chronicles the making of The Beatles’ 1970 album Let It Be. He said that the engineer used AI to extract the vocals from the background music. “We had John’s voice and piano, and he was able to separate them with AI. Tell the machine, ‘This is the voice. This is the guitar. Lose the guitar.’ ,” said McCartney.
“When we tried to make what would be the last Beatles record, it was John’s demo. [Lennon] There was something we were working on. And it’s just finished and will be released this year,” he said. “We were able to get John’s voice purely through this AI so he could mix the record as he normally would.”
It was great to see such an exciting response to our upcoming Beatles project. We couldn’t be more excited to share something with you later this year.
There has been some confusion and speculation about it. There seems to be a lot of guesswork out there. I can’t say much…
— Paul McCartney (@PaulMcCartney) June 22, 2023
In a social media post on Thursday, McCartney further explained that “nothing was artificially or synthetically made” about the song and that “we are all playing it”, adding that over the years ” He explained that he has been “cleaning up existing recordings.”
The band broke up in 1970, and Lennon was shot outside his New York City apartment in 1980 at the age of 40. Harrison died of lung cancer in 2001 at the age of 58. The remaining members of the band are McCartney and Ringo Starr (82).
The recording they “cleaned up” for new material may have been from Lennon’s 1978 recording “Now and then.” According to BBC News, John Lennon recorded a demo tape labeled ‘For Paul’ before his death, which his widow Yoko Ono gave to McCartney in 1995.
McCartney and Jeff Lynne have recreated two of them as part of their extensive anthology retrospective, releasing their posthumous 1995 release ‘Free As A Bird’ and 1996 release ‘Real Love’. created.
“Now and then” is another song on a tape the Beatles were considering releasing in 1995.
