More than 50 years after the group’s final studio album, Paul McCartney says he has used artificial intelligence to create what he called “the last Beatles record,” reports The Wall Street Journal.
“We just finished it up and it’ll be released this year,” McCartney said in an interview with the British Broadcasting Corp. on Tuesday.
McCartney said Hollywood director Peter Jackson, who directed the 2021 documentary epic “The Beatles: Get Back,” used AI technology to isolate the voice of John Lennon from an old demo tape.
“He was able to extricate John’s voice from a ropy little bit of cassette where it had John’s voice and a piano,” McCartney said. “We were able to take John’s voice and make it pure through AI and you were able to mix the record as you would normally do.”
McCartney didn’t reveal what the song was, but the BBC said it was likely to be a 1978 Lennon composition called “Now and Then.”
The prolific Lennon and McCartney songwriting partnership, alongside fellow Beatles George Harrison and Ringo Starr, produced 12 studio albums and dozens of hit singles between 1962 and 1970. The band split in 1970 and would never again record together as a quartet. Each member went on to enjoy their own solo successes, with McCartney forming the band Wings in 1971. Lennon died in 1980 after being shot outside his New York City apartment building.
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