For the first time in 54 years, The Beatles returned to the top of the UK charts with the song “Now and then”, a song that uses Artificial Intelligence to reunite the legendary band British, was announced this Sunday.
Released on Thursday, the song, recorded by John Lennon and completed after his death by the other members of the group, is currently outperforming its rivals, according to Official Charts.
Based on this trend, you may be on your way to take first place in the following table weekly, published next Friday, dethrone American superstar Taylor Swift.
This is the Liverpool band’s 18th chart-topping single. The first was “From Me to You”, from 1963, and the previous one was “The Ballad of John and Yoko”, from 1969, shortly before the band broke up in April 1970.
The new song, which Lennon and George Harrison worked on in the 1970s, and which Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr completed last yearwas worked through Artificial Intelligenceto remove John Lennon’s voice from the original demo recording, McCartney told the BBC.
“There was John’s voice, very clear. It’s very moving,” the musician told the British station, highlighting that the final edition brings together all the elements of the band.
“Now and Then” will also be part of the reissue of the “Red Album” and the “Blue Album”collections of The Beatles hits first released in 1973, spanning the years 1962-1966 and 1967-1970, respectively.
Artificial intelligence technology has recently made it possible to isolate Lennon’s voice and mix it with recordings of other singers, including George Harrison before his death in 2001.
The song was completed and released by the two surviving members.Paul McCartney, 81, and Ringo Starr, 83.
On October 26, Paul McCartney announced the release on November 2 of the new song “Now and Then”, which will also be part of the reissue of the “Red Album” and “Blue Album”, collections of hits by The Beatles launched for the first time in 1973, corresponding to the years 1962-1966 and 1967-1970, respectively.
In the statement about the release of “Now and Then”, you can read that it is “a a genuine Beatles recording”.
According to McCartney, “the sound [original da ‘demo’] “was so poor” that everyone stopped using it for decades.
For Ringo Starr, the other survivor of the band, editing work on “Now and Then” “was the closest thing to having [Lennon] back to the recording room.
“Now and Then” was written by John Lennon after the breakup of the Beatles in 1970. After the musician’s death, murdered in New York in December 1980, his widow, Yoko Ono, gave McCartney a cassette that had the inscription “For Paul.” This ‘demo’, in addition to “Now and Then”, also contained the first versions of “Free As A Bird” and “Real Sees it”, which were released as a single and on the 1995 album “Anthology”.
Source: TSF
