Paul McCartney says AI used to get to 'pure' Lennon voice for ‘final Beatles record’

By Handan Kazanci

ISTANBUL (AA) – Artificial intelligence was used to help create "the final Beatles record,” set for release later this year, said legendary musician and former Beatle Paul McCartney.

“When we came to make what will be the last Beatles record, it was a demo that John (Lennon) had, that we worked on,” the 80-year-old musician told BBC Radio 4 on Tuesday, referring to his frequent writing partner and co-frontman for the classic group, who died in 1980.

“We just finished it up and it'll be released this year,” the iconic musician added.

“We were able to take John’s voice and get it pure through this AI, so then we could mix the record, as you would normally do,” McCartney said.

“There is a good side to it and then a scary side, we just have to see what there leads,” he added.

Although McCartney did not disclose the name of the song, according to the BBC, it is likely to be a 1978 Lennon composition called Now And Then.

The composition had long been considered as a potential "reunion song" for the Beatles during the compilation of their career-spanning Anthology series in 1995, reported the BBC.

McCartney obtained the demo a year earlier from Lennon's widow, Yoko Ono, as it was one of several songs on a cassette tagged “For Paul” that Lennon made shortly before his unexpected death in 1980, the BBC reported.

McCartney announced The Beatles had officially split in 1970, just before the band released the iconic song Let It Be.

In 1980 Lennon returned to music when he began to write songs and recorded an album with Ono, Double Fantasy. A few weeks after the album’s release, Mark David Chapman, a deranged fan, fatally shot Lennon in front of his apartment building in New York City.