2023-11-03 14:00:00
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More than four decades after the murder of John Lennon and two since the death of George Harrison, The Beatlesone of the greatest musical icons of the 20th century, he has finished his last recording: a song that It seemed impossible to finish before the arrival of Artificial Intelligence (AI).
THE BASE IS AN UNPUBLISHED COMPOSITION BY LENNON
The song starts from a batch of tapes composed by John Lennon, in the 70s, which Yoko Ono gave to the band after her death. Thus, songs like Free As a Bird y Real Love; but There were technical limitations to be able to finish Now and Then.
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In the original version, Lennon’s voice was hidden; the piano was “difficult to hear”as described by Paul McCartney for The Associated Press, a television could be heard in the background and “in those days, of course, we didn’t have the technology to do the separation.”
Were just eight seconds in which Lennon is heard intone: “I know it’s true, It’s all because of you, And if I make it through, It’s all because of you” . But they served as a starting point.
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Clockwise from top left, John Lennon, George Harrison, Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr.
THE CONTRIBUTION OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
In 2022, thanks to technical advances and machine learning AI, the band was able to isolate Lennon’s voice from the original cassette. What machine learning does (at very more or less) is to recognize the voice. Thus, they were able teach the AI Lennon’s voice and ask it to extract only that and abandon the rest of the background sounds (the piano, the television). It is similar to the method used to make the documentary series The Beatles: Get Back.
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In addition, McCartney and Starr – the two members of the group still alive – added a new string arrangement, recorded bass and drums, and added guitar parts that George Harrison composed in the 1995 sessions and a guitar solo slide in his characteristic style.
They have completed like this”the last song where you will have all four Beatles on the song: John, Paul, George and Ringo“, as defined by Ringo Starr, which has been released as a double single along with ‘Love Me Do’, the band’s 1962 debut song.
And while they initially found AI technology “a little scary, but exciting,” according to McCartney’s description, the band in turn finds it actually, that game with cutting-edge technology, “is something The Beatles would have been very interested in”.
All The process – spanning more than four decades – is told in first person by the band in their latest short film. The Beatles – Now And Then – The Last Beatles Song.
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Members of The Beatles in their youth.
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