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AI helps create ‘new’ Beatles music, restores Paul McCartney’s voice: ‘I’m sobbing! This is so beautiful!’
- After the most influential band in history parted ways acrimoniously, fans were deprived of a final happy ending
- But the Fab Four have now been ‘reunited’ using artificial intelligence, which some have found to be surprisingly emotional
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When the Beatles broke up more than 50 years ago, devastated fans were left yearning for more. Now, artificial intelligence is offering just that.
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From “reuniting” the Fab Four on songs from their solo careers, to reimagining surviving superstar Paul McCartney’s later works with his voice restored to its youthful peak, the new creations show off how far this technology has come – and raise a host of ethical and legal questions.
“I’m sobbing! This is so beautiful!!!” wrote a listener in a typical YouTube comment for a fan-created AI cover of McCartney’s 2013 single, New, which features de-aged vocals and a bridge part “sung” by his great songwriting partner and friend, the late John Lennon.
Equally impressive is a version of Grow Old With Me, one of the last songs penned by Lennon, which was posthumously released after his 1980 murder and recently remade by an AI creator who goes by “Dae Lims”.
With enhanced audio quality, an orchestral arrangement and harmonised backing vocals that evoke the Liverpudlian rockers’ heyday, the song’s most stirring moment comes when McCartney croons over a soaring melody with poignant lyrics about ageing.
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