Paul McCartney Says a New Beatles Record Is Coming—with AI John Lennon

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Just when you think 2023 couldn’t get any weirder, John Lennon rises from the dead. Well, sort of—with the help of AI, his vocals have been added to a new Beatles song.

In a recent interview with BBC, Paul McCartney said the technology was used to “extricate” Lennon’s voice from old recording demos. In other words, McCartney and co. Lennon’s vocals from an unreleased track, cleaned it up, and used it to complete a new song. According to McCartney, the band recently finished the process. “It’ll be released this year,” he said.

The song’s title has not been revealed, but Deadline reports that fans think it pulls from Lennon’s 1978 track, “Now and Then.” It’s the last song he recorded before his death in 1980. Years later, Lennon's former wife, Yoko Ono, provided his bandmates with all of he artist's final demos for The Beatles Anthology project in 1995. Two of his songs, “Free as a Bird” and “Real Love” were included, but “Now and Then” was never released due to poor sound quality.

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