LONDON (AP) — Artificial intelligence has been used to extract John Lennon’s voice from an outdated demo to create “the last Beatles record,” a long time after the band broke up, Paul McCartney stated Tuesday.

McCartney, 80, informed the BBC that the know-how was used to separate the Beatles’ voices from background sounds throughout the making of director Peter Jackson’s 2021 documentary sequence, “The Beatles: Get Back.” The “new” track is ready to be launched later this yr, he stated.

Jackson was “able to extricate John’s voice from a ropey little bit of cassette and a piano,” McCartney informed BBC radio. “He could separate them with AI, he’d tell the machine ‘That’s a voice, this is a guitar, lose the guitar’.”

“So when we came to make what will be the last Beatles record, it was a demo that John had that we worked on,” he added. “We were able to take John’s voice and get it pure through this AI so then we could mix the record as you would do. It gives you some sort of leeway.”

McCartney didn’t determine the title of the demo, however the BBC and others stated it was more likely to be an unfinished 1978 love track by Lennon known as “Now and Then.” The demo was included on a cassette labeled “For Paul” that McCartney had obtained from Lennon’s widow, Yoko Ono, the BBC reported.

McCartney described AI know-how as “kind of scary but exciting,” including: “We will just have to see where that leads.”

The identical know-how enabled McCartney to “duet” nearly with Lennon, who was murdered in 1980, on “I’ve Got a Feeling” final yr at Glastonbury Festival.

The singer-songwriter is ready to open an exhibition later this month on the National Portrait Gallery in London that includes beforehand unseen pictures that he took throughout the early days of the Beatles at first of “Beatlemania,” when the band rose to worldwide fame.

The exhibition, titled “Eyes of the Storm,” showcases greater than 250 images McCartney took on his digital camera between 1963 and 1964 — together with portraits of Ringo Starr, George Harrison and Lennon, in addition to Beatles supervisor Brian Epstein.

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This story has been corrected to point out that the title of McCartney’s picture exhibition is “Eyes of the Storm,” not “Eye of the Storm.”

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