Posted on 06/13/2023 6:06:07 AM PDT by Red Badger
The Beatles will release their last record, with the use of artificial intelligence, over 50 years after the band broke up.
The last Beatles song they recorded collectively was “The End,” from the album “Abbey Road” in 1969, the final song of the medley on side two of the album. John Lennon was murdered at the age of 40 in December 1980 and George Harrison died of cancer at the age of 58 in 2001. But surviving member Paul McCartney has revealed he will “extricate” Lennon’s voice from an old demo to create the group’s final song, believed to be “Now And Then.”
“We just finished it up and it’ll be released this year,” McCartney told Radio 4’s Today program.
McCartney explained that producer Jeff Lynne, who in 1995 and 1996 had released songs recorded by Lennon including “Free As A Bird” and “Real Love,” had also tried to clean up “Now And Then” but had a hard time cleaning up the song, but AI gave McCartney the opportunity to revive Lennon’s voice.
McCartney explained that director Peter Jackson, who used AI to clean up the audio for the “Get Back” documentary, was “able to extricate John’s voice from a ropey little bit of cassette. We had John’s voice and a piano and he could separate them with AI. They tell the machine, ‘That’s the voice. This is a guitar. Lose the guitar.’”
“So when we came to make what will be the last Beatles’ record, it was a demo that John had; we were able to take John’s voice and get it pure through this AI,” he continued. “Then we can mix the record, as you would normally do. So it gives you some sort of leeway.”
The Beatles’ final incarnation, with Lennon, McCartney, Harrison, and drummer Ringo Starr, was formed in 1962. Prior to that, Lennon had founded a group called The Quarrymen including Lennon, McCartney, Harrison, and bassist Stuart Sutcliffe; the group used several drummers before ultimately settling on Starr.
Producer George Martin helped them get signed by EMI Records and their first major hit, “Love Me Do,” was released in late 1962. Their film debut came in 1964’s “A Hard Day’s Night.” They retired from live performances in 1966 but kept recording albums such as “Rubber Soul,” “Revolver,” and “Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band.”
In 1968, they founded Apple Corps, a multimedia corporation that still oversees the groups’ projects. The group broke up in 1970. They are the best-selling music act of all time, with estimated sales of 600 million units.
Ugh! I so wish you would have caught the last tour, a few years ago. However, you might be able to catch the televised version if you have DishTV and do a search.
ELO is basically now Jeff Lynne solo with a backing band.
They were much better when they still had Kelly Groucutt and Bev Bevan, and the three main string players.
We have DirectTV....................
Lennon was the leader in the early days, but he started to decline after he got hooked on smack, so Paul stepped up and took over.
Yes, interesting documentary. But I don't know about "halt", in fact I thought it was underwhelming. I would have thought thousands of people would have gathered, but I guess that was before twitter.
Interesting tidbit: As the band played on the roof, the audio feed went to producer Alan Parsons in the basement of the building.
True! At least he still has Richard Tandy.
Just don’t play the White Album any more. That thing has been beaten to death
Last Christmas I asked my hubby for the blu-ray of Get Back, a documentary of the groups' last reording sessions at Abbey Road. It was a great example of how the creative process works.
However, when it was over, hubby said to me that he no longer believes that this member or that member of the group was responsible for the break-up. Both of us agreed that all of the members of the group had simply out grown the group and were ready to go out on their own.
So Spinal Tap marches to the tune of a different drummer……….
Sorry, I couldn’t resist. That’s a lot of drummers.
Reporter: “What do you think of Beethoven?”
Ringo: “Great - especially his poems.”
Badfinger was allowed to perform on the Beatles’ Apple label. I think Jeff Lynne, the producer of the new work was the lead for ELO.
Please tell me that was sarcasm.
Thank you for sharing that. I had no idea about that history. I was familiar with The Move, but that’s about it.
I wore out two LP’s and a cassette of their first album. Subrosa “Beatles”
or not I think they were a great band.
I now have the first and second Klaatu albums on a CD.
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I wore out two LP’s and a cassette of their first album. Subrosa “Beatles”
or not I think they were a great band.
I now have the first and second Klaatu albums on a CD.
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Klaatu had a lotta people believing the beatles were back together.
Some of their tunes out beatled the beatles, imo.
They were a great band. Surprised me when I found out they were canadian.
Still have original wax plus a CD.
May just play it today
Have a goot one
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