London United Kingdom (Commonwealth Union)_John Lennon has been dead for 23 years and it would be somewhat eerie to have him release a single from his grave. But that’s exactly what will happen this year when artificial intelligence (AI) will be used in the very last Beatles song that Lennon had done a demo of. Paul McCartney made this revelation in an interview with BBC Radio 4 saying technology is being used on the demo that Lennon and his Beatles mates worked on. This was technically, the last Beatles record ever made by The Fab Four.
Lennon’s voice from the demo is being taken and made ‘pure’ through AI prior to mixing the record. McCartney who is eighty this year also said the record is in its final stages of production and will be released this year. While McCartney did not reveal the name of the track, there has been speculation that the song is probably ‘Now and Then’ which Lennon recorded as a demo in 1978.
The technology used is similar to that used by director Peter Jackson in “The Beatles: Get Back” documentary in 2021 which traveled back to 1970 when the Fab Four were making their album ‘Let It Be”. The process put simply extricates Lennon’s voice from a cassette tape, a music-playing mode that’s considered archaic now.
The multi-award-winning Beatles which among a host of other accolades were nominated at the Grammys 23 times and won seven, were four fun-loving young men originally from Liverpool. They took the world by storm in the 1960s with their pudding bowl haircuts and extraordinary simple yet complex music and became global sensations.
While their legacy may seem to have spanned decades, the Beatles were only active together for about ten years, breaking up and pursuing solo careers. With Lennon’s tragic death in 1978, their music gained a resurgence, and Paul McCartney, who was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II in 1997, became the most famed of the former boy band, although he formed other bands including The Wings with his wife Linda.
This is the first time The Beatles will ‘come together’ to release a single after their breakup in 1970, with one voice raised from the dead.
