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an interview with BBC Radio 4 that aired on Tuesday, McCartney
did not name the track but said the technology was used on "a
demo that John had, that we worked on".
"So when we came to make what will be the last Beatles record...
we were able to take John's voice and get it pure through this
AI (artificial intelligence), so that then we could mix the
record as you would normally do," the singer-songwriter, 80,
said.
"We just finished it up, it will be released this year."
The BBC said in an online article that the song was likely to be
"Now and Then", which Lennon recorded as a demo in 1978, two
years before his death in 1980.
McCartney said director Peter Jackson had used the technology
for the 2021 documentary series "The Beatles: Get Back", which
looks at the Fab Four making their 1970 album "Let It Be".
"He was able to extricate John's voice from a ropey little bit
of cassette," McCartney said.
"We had John's voice and a piano, he could separate them with
AI."
The use of AI in music has sparked both excitement and fear of
what the technology could bring.
Asked about it, McCartney said: "It's a very interesting
thing... it's something we're all sort of tackling at the moment
and trying to deal with."
"...There's a good side to it and then a scary side, and we'll
just have to see where that leads."
(Reporting by Marie-Louise Gumuchian; Editing by Sharon
Singleton)
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