It is probably a demo recording made in 1978, which was made ready for publication with the help of artificial intelligence.
A new song from the legendary band The Beatles will be released this year. The frontman of the band, which broke up in 1970, told about it Paul McCartney British Broadcasting Corporation In a BBC radio interview.
According to McCartney, with the help of artificial intelligence, it has been possible to separate the singer John Lennon’s voice and his piano playing from a “lousy cassette tape”. Based on these materials, a whole new song has been edited, which will be published during this year.
In the interview, McCartney did not mention which song and recording it was about. According to the BBC, it is probably a recording of the love song “Now and then” made in New York in 1978.
The recording ended up in McCartney when Lennon’s wife Yoko Ono had sent the cassette to him marked “Paul”.
Based on the recording, the songs “Free as a Bird” and “Real Love” were released in 1995. According to McCartney, “Now an then” was once forgotten because the band’s guitarist George Harrison didn’t like it.
– Because the Beatles were a democracy, we didn’t do it, McCartney said.
In the interview, the 80-year-old McCartney said that he was a little hesitant about using artificial intelligence, but that he accepted it at the urging of his friends.
– It’s a bit scary, but fascinating because it has a future. We’ll just have to see where it leads.
The main topic of the interview was the photo exhibition opening at the National Portrait Gallery in London, which presents previously unpublished pictures from the early days of the Beatles’ career.
Sources: AP, Reuters