Members of The Beatles, Ringo Starr, George Harrison, Paul McCartney and John Lennon in 1966. Bridgeman Images
Peter Jackson, director of the official music video for the British rock group’s new song, is reportedly considering releasing more projects that use artificial intelligence.
Could The Beatles return with more songs after Now And Then? At least that’s what Peter Jackson, director of the music video for the legendary rock group’s latest track, suggested to the Sunday Times on Sunday, November 5th.
It is thanks, among other things, to Peter Jackson that the new Beatles song, which brings John Lennon’s voice back to life using artificial intelligence, saw the light of day. While working on The Beatles: Get Back (2021), his documentary series about the legendary British singers, the director examined more than 60 hours of never-before-seen images and 150 hours of audio recordings of the Liverpool group. These archives were filmed in January 1969 for the documentary Let It Be (1970). Thanks to the latter, the filmmaker notably managed to extract John Lennon’s voice by separating it from the piano melodies using AI.
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As he told the Sunday Times, the director says other excerpts from his documentary series could potentially be used to create other songs. “We could do a recording of Get Back, separate John and George’s vocals, then have Paul and Ringo add a chorus or harmonies and we’d have a cool song,” he said. I haven’t spoken to Paul McCartney about it yet. It’s a bit of a fanboy thing, but it’s entirely possible.”
New track Now And Then, released at 2pm on Thursday November 2nd, climbed to the top of the UK charts. In just five days, the song was viewed more than 20 million times on YouTube. Ringo Starr and Paul McCartney, the last surviving members of the group, actually lent their voices to the song. Recordings of the electric and acoustic guitar played by George Harrison from 1995, before his death in 2001, were also used.
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