There are no catchy melodies in McCartney's first release in five years, only quiet hiss and the odd clatter. There are no catchy melodies in McCartney's first release in five years, only quiet hiss and the odd clatter. But Paul McCartney's first new recording in five years lacks the sing-along tune and jaunty guitar chops because there's barely anything there. In place of catchy melodies and evocative lyrics there is only quiet hiss and the odd clatter. It suggests that if AI companies unfairly exploit musicians' intellectual property to train their generative AI models, the creative ecosystem will be wrecked and original music silenced.

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.

The proposals could remove the incentive for writers and artists and result in a "loss of creativity", he told the BBC. McCartney, one of the two surviving members of the Beatles, said: "You get young guys, girls, coming up, and they write a beautiful song, and they don't own it, and they don't have anything to do with it. And anyone who wants can just rip it off." "The truth is, the money's going somewhere … Somebody's getting paid, so why shouldn't it be the guy who sat down and wrote Yesterday?" In contrast, some publishing organisations and media outlets have signed licensing deals with AI companies to allow them to use their material to train such models.

Their final song was mixed with John Lennon's voice. The Beatles' return to the Grammys has come with an assist from artificial intelligence. "Now and Then" is nominated for record of the year and best rock performance at the 2025 Grammy Awards, making it the first nominated song ever to use AI in its production. The song utilized AI to clean up old demo recordings of John Lennon singing and playing piano, recorded in the late 1970s, as well as a guitar track from George Harrison, recorded six years before his death in 2001. "To me, this is a cool example of how AI can function in our current environment," Recording Academy CEO Harvey Mason Jr. said in a statement to Fox News Digital.

While reading through the list of Grammy nominees earlier I came across quite a surprise. There, competing for record of the year alongside the likes of Beyoncé's Texas Hold'Em and Chappell Roan's Good Luck Babe, was Now and Then by The Beatles. So, here's the story of how The Beatles got nominated for two Grammys -- they also snagged a best rock performance nod -- 50 years after formally breaking up. It starts with a demo John Lennon recorded in the 1970s that was given to Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr and George Harrison for inclusion on the The Beatles Anthology, released in 1995. While other tracks like Free as a Bird and Real Love made it on, technology wasn't advanced enough to separate Lennon's vocals and piano without reducing the recording's quality. But, last year McCartney and Starr used modern machine learning technology to pull Lennon's vocals for a new track.

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Following a lot of hype--and a quarter-century of work--"Now and Then," presumably the last song to feature all four original Beatles, is here. The track dropped Thursday and the music video, directed by Peter Jackson, hit YouTube on Friday. Sweet and haunting, it's full of piano and strings, and it wouldn't have been possible without the machine learning technology Jackson used on the docuseries Get Back. How the AI technology became the thing that saved the song is a bit of a journey. Years after John Lennon died in 1980, his wife, the musician and multimedia artist Yoko Ono, told his bandmate Paul McCartney that she had a demo tape Lennon had recorded at their apartment in the Dakota in New York City.

The remaining Beatles, Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr, have completed the band's final song, decades after their breakup and the deaths of John Lennon and George Harrison. The band announced the song, titled "Now and Then," will be available worldwide Thursday, Nov. 2, paired with a re-release of their very first single, "Love Me Do," which debuted in 1962. "Now and Then" features vocals from Lennon as well as guitar performed by Harrison, recorded six years before his 2001 death. According to a press release for the song, Lennon recorded a demo with vocals and piano in the late 1970s while living in the Dakota building in New York. The Beatles announced a new song, "Now and Then," featuring contributions from the departed members of the band, John Lennon and George Harrison.

The "America's Got Talent" judge told Fox News Digital why he doesn't like AI technology in songwriting. Simon Cowell has some judgment on the use of artificial intelligence in music. "I personally am not a fan of it," Cowell told Fox News Digital. He continued, explaining why artists like Queen, David Bowie and Elton John have a lasting, authentic impact, by noting that "their songs, I think, are as good today as they were then. So, anything which is faking it is for me a bit of a problem," he said.

Evans' mention of Beatles legend John Lennon ended up becoming somewhat of a reality, but not in the hands of just any creator, but fellow Beatle Paul McCartney. Earlier this year, McCartney told BBC Radio 4's Today show that there was a new final song from the band in the works, with the assistance of AI. "When we came to make what will be the last Beatles record it was a demo that John had – that we worked on and we just finished it up – it'll be released this year. We were able to take John's voice and get it pure through this AI so that then we could mix the record as you would normally do," McCartney said. After some backlash from fans, McCartney clarified that Lennon's vocals were original and not generated by computer. "We've seen some confusion and speculation about it," he shared to X. "Can't say too much at this stage but to be clear, nothing has been artificially or synthetically created. It's all real and we all play on it. We cleaned up some existing recordings – a process which has gone on for years," he assured angry fans. The last two surviving Beatles, Ringo Starr and Paul McCartney, have made it clear that there is nothing artificially generated about their late bandmate John Lennon's voice in a new song, set to be released later this year.