Paul McCartney used artificial intelligence to enhance and complete Beatles material, applying the same approach used on 'Now and Then' to two additional songs. The MAL tool developed by WingNut Films isolates and separates sounds on old recordings, extracting John Lennon's vocals from poor-quality demos and reducing piano bleed and electrical hum. The cleaned vocals sound markedly clearer, resembling modern studio captures. The tracks 'Free as a Bird' and 'Real Love' originated as Lennon's demos before his 1980 death, were previously augmented by McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr in the 1990s, and will appear on a new collection of unreleased Beatles material later this year.
Paul McCartney enlisted a little help from artificial intelligence to complete the 'last Beatles song' two years ago. The track, 'Now and Then', became the first Beatles music to reach number 1 in the UK for 64 years. Now, in an apparent effort to repeat its success, McCartney has once again used AI - on two more songs. The sophisticated tool called 'MAL' is the creation of WingNut Films, the production company headed by Lord of the Rings director Peter Jackson.
MAL has managed to extricate John Lennon's voice from two poor-quality demos he made shortly before his death. And it makes the scratchy old vocals 'crystal clear', as if they've been recorded by Lennon in the modern day. The songs - 'Free as a Bird' and 'Real Love' - are to be released on a new disc of unreleased Beatles material arriving later in the year. Listen to one of the songs below.
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