program in the UK, McCartney shared that AI had assisted in isolating John Lennon’s voice from an old demo track, allowing him to resurrect Lennon\u2019s original vocal for a duet. “We just finished it up and it’ll be released this year,” he said.<\/span><\/p>\nMcCartney didn’t disclose the song’s title, but it’s presumed to be John Lennon’s 1978 piece, “Now And Then,\u201d which was intended to be a ‘reunion song’ for the Beatles’ autobiographical Anthology TV series in 1995.<\/span><\/p>\nThe demo of the song was a gift from Lennon’s widow, Yoko Ono, to McCartney. It was part of several songs on a cassette labeled “For Paul,” produced by Lennon just before he died in 1980.<\/span><\/p>\nTwo of these tracks, “Free As A Bird” and “Real Love,” were enhanced by producer Jeff Lynne and released in 1995 and 1996, marking the Beatles’ first “new” material in 25 years.<\/span><\/p>\nThe Beatles attempted to record “Now And Then” but later abandoned the project. McCartney told BBC Radio 4 that George Harrison disapproved of the song due to the unsatisfactory sound quality of Lennon’s vocals, “George didn’t like it. The Beatles being a democracy, we didn’t do it.”<\/span><\/p>\nMcCartney has often admitted he wished to complete the song, including in a documentary on Jeff Lynne in 2012, where he stated, “That one’s still lingering around. So I’m going to nick in with Jeff and do it. Finish it, one of these days.”<\/span><\/p>\nHow AI resurrected Lennon\u2019s voice<\/span><\/h2>\nDuring the production of Peter Jackson’s \u201cGet Back\u201d Beatles documentary, dialogue editor Emile de la Rey used AI to isolate the band’s voices from background noises and even their own instruments, creating clean audio from old recordings.<\/span><\/p>\nWith this technique, McCartney was able to “duet” with Lennon on his recent tour, and it helped create new surround sound mixes for the Beatles’ Revolver album last year.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n