2023-06-13 11:43:00
Paul McCartney, the legendary 80 bathroom musician, has admitted this Tuesday on the BBC that artificial intelligence (AI) has been called upon to help create “the final Beatles record,” featuring the late John Lennon on vocals. McCartney has said that he used this state-of-the-art technology to “pull” Lennon’s vocals from an old demo or demo so that he could complete the song.
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“We have just finished it and it will be launched this year,” explained the former member of ‘the Liverpool four’ [aquí el audio del programa]. Although it did not name the title of the song, the BBC estimates that it would be a Lennon composition called Now and then, dating from 1978.
That composition, which McCartney had received from Lennon’s widow, Yoko Ono, had originally been considered part of a compilation of Beatles material in 1995. However, according to McCartney, George Harrison had admitted that the song was a “junk” and refused to work on it.
the title was bad
“It didn’t have a very good title, it needed a bit of reworking, but it had a beautiful verse and John sang it,” he has said. “George didn’t like it. The Beatles being a democracy, we did not do it, ”he added.
The BBC says the turning point came with the documentary Get Back from Peter Jackson, from a few years ago, who trained computers to recognize the Beatles’ voices and separate them from background noise, and even from their own instruments, to create “clean” audio. “He was able to get John’s voice off a little cassette,” McCartney told Radio 4 of Peter Jackson.
“We had John’s voice and a piano and he could separate them with AI. They say to the machine: ‘That’s the voice. This is a guitar. Take out the guitar”, explained the musician. Thus, it was possible to take John Lennon’s voice and get it pure through this AI, said McCartney, who admitted, however, that other applications of AI are a cause for concern: “It’s a little scary but it’s exciting, because it is the future. We will have to see where it takes us,” he said.
McCartney talked about AI before an exhibition of his photographs which will be open to the public later this month at the National Portrait Gallery in London, entitled The eyes of the storm The exhibition features portraits taken by McCartney with his own camera, between December 1963 and February 1964, when the Beatles were catapulted to fame. The images taken by McCartney collect numerous intimate moments of the band members, and offer a unique look at the environment, the personality and the way in which the musicians perceived the phenomenon of beatlemania that was growing The photographs are also collected in the book 1964. The eyes of the storm, which will soon be published in Spain by Liburuak.
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