Almost 30 years after the surviving members of The Beatles reunited to release new music — the songs Free as a Bird and Real Love, which accompanied the broadcast of a sprawling Beatles Anthology documentary — bassist Paul McCartney dropped a bombshell Tuesday in a BBC Radio 4 interview: One more Beatles song is coming soon.
Sir Paul McCartney was given one of Lennon’s demos by his widow Yoko Ono. It was recorded on a cassette labelled “For Paul,” which was reportedly recorded not long before his death.
“When we came to make what will be the last Beatles record – it was a demo that John had that we worked on and we just finished it up, it will be released this year – and we were able to take John’s voice and get it pure through this AI,” McCartney said. “So then we were able to mix the record as you would normally do.”
According to McCartney, AI was used to isolate Lennon’s voice from a demo track for the Peter Jackson directed 2021 docuseries “The Beatles: Get Back” about the making of the Beatles’ 1970 album “Let It Be.”
There’s “a good side and a scary side” to AI, McCartney said, so “we’ll just have to see where that leads.”
McCartney did not name the new song, but it is likely to be a 1978 Lennon composition called Now and Then, which was included on the demo cassette.
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