The Beatles Use AI to Reconstruct John Lennon's Vocal for a New Song

Paul McCartney, one of the founders of the legendary "Fab Four," has revealed a positive experience using an old phonogram to create a recording of John Lennon's vocals. This recording will be used in an upcoming song by The Beatles, the band in which they performed together until Lennon's death in 1980.

Paul McCartney made this statement during an interview on BBC's "Today" program.

In 2021, as McCartney explains, the director of "The Lord of the Rings" trilogy, Peter Jackson, released a documentary film about The Beatles, using modern technology to restore old video recordings of the band and transform them into colour. Jackson's team of experts also managed to restore Lennon's vocal recording from an old audio cassette using contemporary technology. They separated Lennon's voice from background noise and other instruments, improving the recording to meet modern quality standards.

Now, the surviving members of the band are planning to release a song that was originally conceived during Lennon's lifetime but was never recorded. Paul McCartney has already gained experience in performing alongside a video recording of John Lennon and his reconstructed vocal during his recent concert tour.

BBC reported that the song will be Lennon's 1978 composition, "Now And Then," a song that McCartney had previously expressed a desire to "finish." Lennon was tragically assassinated in 1980.

Experts in the industry are contemplating the potential of the latest technological advancements in the music industry, as well as the ethics of posthumous recreations of artists.

The Swedish group ABBA uses digital avatars for their performances, created using motion-capture technology. As McCartney summarized, "This has its good and bad sides, and we need to see where it takes us."

As reported by The Gaze, thanks to the "talents" of generative AI and the foundations of deepfake technology, digital replicas of long-deceased actors are once again "playing roles" in Hollywood blockbusters. James Dean, an icon of American cinema from the last century, perished in a car accident in 1955, yet he unexpectedly returns in a new film, "Back to Eden," which is about to be released.