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The Beatles are releasing their 91Ƶfinal91Ƶ record, AI helped make it possible

McCartney described AI technology used to capture John Lennon91Ƶs voice as 91Ƶkind of scary but exciting91Ƶ

Artificial intelligence has been used to extract John Lennon91Ƶs voice from an old demo to create 91Ƶthe last Beatles record,91Ƶ decades after the band broke up, Paul McCartney said Tuesday.

McCartney, 80, told the BBC that the technology was used to separate the Beatles91Ƶ voices from background sounds during the making of director Peter Jackson91Ƶs 2021 documentary series, 91ƵThe Beatles: Get Back.91Ƶ The 91Ƶnew91Ƶ song is set to be released later this year, he said.

Jackson was 91Ƶable to extricate John91Ƶs voice from a ropey little bit of cassette and a piano,91Ƶ McCartney told BBC radio. 91ƵHe could separate them with AI, he91Ƶd tell the machine 91ƵThat91Ƶs a voice, this is a guitar, lose the guitar91Ƶ.91Ƶ

91ƵSo when we came to make what will be the last Beatles record, it was a demo that John had that we worked on,91Ƶ he added. 91ƵWe were able to take John91Ƶs voice and get it pure through this AI so then we could mix the record as you would do. It gives you some sort of leeway.91Ƶ

McCartney didn91Ƶt identify the name of the demo, but the BBC and others said it was likely to be an unfinished 1978 love song by Lennon called 91ƵNow and Then.91Ƶ The demo was included on a cassette labeled 91ƵFor Paul91Ƶ that McCartney had received from Lennon91Ƶs widow, Yoko Ono, the BBC reported.

McCartney described AI technology as 91Ƶkind of scary but exciting,91Ƶ adding: 91ƵWe will just have to see where that leads.91Ƶ

The same technology enabled McCartney to 91Ƶduet91Ƶ virtually with Lennon, who was murdered in 1980, on 91ƵI91Ƶve Got a Feeling91Ƶ last year .

The singer-songwriter is set to open an exhibition later this month at the National Portrait Gallery in London featuring previously unseen photographs that he took during the early days of the Beatles at the start of 91ƵBeatlemania,91Ƶ when the band rose to worldwide fame.

The exhibition, titled 91ƵEyes of the Storm,91Ƶ showcases more than 250 photos McCartney took on his camera between 1963 and 1964 91Ƶ including portraits of Ringo Starr, George Harrison and Lennon, as well as Beatles manager Brian Epstein.

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