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McCartney Enlists AI to Craft Final Beatles Release Featuring Lennon's Vocals

  • Paul McCartney used AI technology to extract John Lennon's vocals from a 1978 demo for inclusion on a new Beatles release due out this year.
  • The song is speculated to be "Now and Then," which Lennon composed and recorded shortly before his death.
  • The AI technology was originally developed to isolate and enhance the Beatles' individual vocals and instruments for director Peter Jackson's documentary "The Beatles: Get Back."
  • McCartney says the technology is "scary" but helped him achieve his long-held goal of finishing the Lennon demo.
  • The new release will be the first "new" Beatles song to feature Lennon's vocals since "Free As A Bird" and "Real Love" in the mid-1990s.
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