Paul McCartney Confirms New Beatles Song To Be Released This Year + Discusses AI Covers - Interview

New interview with Paul McCartney for the BBC where he confirms that a final Beatles song has been put together and is set for release this year. He also discusses his thoughts on AI creating song covers. Although Paul didn't say the name of the song, it is widely speculated that the song in question is 'Now and Then.'

Q: What do you think about efforts that are being made through technology through artificial intelligence to recreate the early Beatles making your voice sound younger bringing those voices back from from the grave really?

Paul: Well, it’s a very interesting thing, you know, it’s something we’re all sort of tackling at the moment, trying to deal with what it’ll mean. I don’t hear it that much, because I’m not on the on the internet that much. But people will say to me ‘oh yeah there’s a track where John is singing one of my songs, and it isn’t, it’s just AI you know, so all of that is kind of scary but exciting, because it’s the future and we were able to use that kind of thing.

Paul: When Peter Jackson did the film ‘Get Back’ where it was us making the ‘Let It Be’ album, and he was able to extract John’s voice from a ropey little bit of cassette where it had John’s voice and a piano he could separate them with AI. They could do they tell the machine ‘that’s a voice, this is a guitar, lose the guitar’s, and he did that, so he has great uses.

Paul: So we came to make what will be the last Beatles record. It was a demo that John had that we worked on and we just finished it up to be released this year. 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, you know. So it gives you it gives you some sort of leeway, so there’s a good side to it and then a scary side, and we’re just got to see where that leads.