The Beatles are set to release their final song.

Sir Paul McCartney has announced that he has used AI to extract John Lennon’s voice from an old demo to create another song. According to the BBC.

Sir Paul McCartney says @BBCr4today The rest of the Beatles used AI to “extract” John Lennon’s voice from old demos to complete the song.https://t.co/OZTJoMDC3d

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“It’s just finished and will be released this year,” McCartney said. Today on BBC Radio 4.

McCartney has not revealed the title of the song. 1978 Lennon Demo calledNow and then. “ The unreleased song was recorded as a potential third single for The Beatles Anthology Project, but the band abandoned the demo.

Lennon’s widow, Yoko Ono, gave McCartney a demo of the song-filled cassette titled “Four Poles” last year. Lennon made this cassette shortly before his death. shot dead in 1980.

The track “For Paul” falls into the lo-fi genre. These songs were recorded on a boombox while Lennon played the piano in his New York apartment. (Related: Former Beatles bassist dies at 81)

Producer Jeff Lynne completed and released two unfinished tracks in 1995 and 1996.free like a bird” and “true loveThese were the first new albums from the Beatles in 25 years at the time.

When I tried to record “Now And Then” at the time, the session ended before I could finish it.

“It was one day, really, one afternoon,” Lynn said. “The song had a chorus but very few verses. We did a backing track, but it was a rough job that we really couldn’t get through.”

McCartney claimed that bandmate George Harrison didn’t like “Now And Then”.

“George didn’t like it. The Beatles are a democracy, so we didn’t do that,” McCartney said.

In the version to be released this year, AI separated Lennon’s voice and piano from the original recording. While McCartney is excited about the new technology, he also voiced his concerns.

“I don’t use the internet much [but] People would say to me, ‘Oh, there’s a track with John singing my song,’ and it’s just AI,” McCartney said. “It’s kind of scary, but it’s exciting because it’s the future. We’ll have to see where that leads.”