The Beatles Now And Then

The last ever Beatles song "Now and Then" was released on streaming platforms on November 2, 2023. In June 2023, Paul McCartney told the BBC that artificial intelligence was used to extract John Lennon’s voice from the original recording and separate it from the piano on the demo.

The discovery was made by Peter Jackson during his making of 2021’s “The Beatles: Get Back.” Jackson was "able to extricate John's voice from a ropey little bit of cassette and a piano," McCartney told BBC radio. "He could separate them with AI; he'd tell the machine 'That’s a voice, this is a guitar, lose the guitar.’"

Ringo Starr clarified the track does not use artificially created vocals of John Lennon, who was killed in 1980, and the band would "never" use AI to fake Lennon's voice.

Jackson added vocals from lead guitarist George Harrison, recorded before he died in 2001, will also appear on the farewell record. "It's the final track you'll ever hear with the four lads. And that's a fact," Ringo Starr said at the time.

Jackson’s sound team employed similar technology when working on the soundtrack of the “Get Back” documentary, isolating instruments and voices during the band’s conversations.