The "last Beatles record" will be released later this year, featuring recovered John Lennon vocals.
In an interview with BBC Radio 4 this morning (June 13), Paul McCartney revealed that artificial intelligence (AI) has been used to help recover John Lennon vocals from an old demo tape. They will now be used for a new track.
Paul, 80, who grew up in Allerton, appeared on Radio 4 to discuss his forthcoming photography exhibition at London's National Portrait Gallery. During the interview, he was asked about the growing prominence of AI and explained how it has been used to recover John's vocals.
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He said: "When Peter Jackson did the film Get Back, where it was us making the Let It Be album, he was able to extricate John's voice from a ropey little bit of cassette and a piano. He could separate them with AI. They tell the machine: 'That's a voice, this is a guitar - lose the guitar'.
"So when we came to make what will be the last Beatles record, it was a demo that John had that we worked on and we just finished it up. It will be released this year.
"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 normally do. It gives you some sort of leeway."
Paul said this illustrated a positive to AI, but he also acknowledged there is a "scary side". He added: “We will just have to see where that leads".
The legendary singer songwriter spoke about his exhibition, which will be called "Paul McCartney Photographs 1963-64: Eyes Of The Storm" and incorporates unseen photographs taken by Paul in The Beatles' early days. The archive features more than 250 images taken between November 1963 and February 1964, capturing the start of Beatlemania.
The exhibition will run from June 28 to October 1 at the gallery, which has undergone three years of major refurbishment. It features portraits of Ringo Starr as well as late bandmates George Harrison and Lennon, and manager Brian Epstein.
Paul said: “It is very poignant, it’s great because, whenever you lose someone, I think your natural thing is ‘Well, we’ve got beautiful memories’, and you hold fast those memories of the good times.
“I don’t tend to dwell on the fact that you’ve lost someone. After a while – it’ll maybe take a year or two – and then you can look back and you just remember where you met them, things you did…
“And when it came to The Beatles, and you have this overwhelming stuff happening to you, you knew each other so well that you could lean on each other – that’s what I see in these pictures.”
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