An anecdotal song by Beatlesrecorded using it Artificial Intelligence, to play his voice John Lennonwill be released this year, Paul McCartney has announced.

In an interview broadcast by the BBC today, the legendary Liverpool musician, who is about to celebrate his 81st birthday, explained how Lennon’s voice on this new song was taken from an old tape and separated from the backing track. to produce this new song.

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We did what would be the last Beatles recording, working from a John demoPaul McCartney explained. “We are finishing it and it will be released this year“, he added.

We were able to take John’s voice and clean it up using artificial intelligence to mix the recording“, he continued.

The BBC notes that Sir Paul did not name the song, but it is likely to be a John Lennon composition from 1978 entitled “Now And Then”. He adds that he received the demo a year earlier from Lennon’s widow, Yoko Ono. It was one of the songs on a tape called ‘For Paul’, which Lennon had written shortly before his death in 1980.

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In April 1970, six months after the release of the album ‘Abbey Road’ and a month before the release of ‘Let it Be’, the Beatles had announced that they were breaking up. The ten years of their life together gave them 14 albums, sales of almost a billion records and motion pictures.