The year 2023 held a real surprise for music fans: "Now And Then", the first Beatles song in decades. Computer witchcraft has never sounded better.
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A brand new Beatles song in the year 2023 makes the fan feel like Marty McFly: all the timelines get mixed up - "back to the future" in real life.
The Fab Four make music again in the most beautiful harmony. 53 years after the band broke up. 43 years after the death of John Lennon. 22 years after the death of George Harrison. And the melodies are as inimitably beautiful as they were in the Beatles' heyday.
"Now And Then" is the name of the song that has finally been freed from its time capsule. From the very first listen, a pleasantly nostalgic warmth spreads through your chest. And it's made possible by the very technology that otherwise makes many people feel anxious: Artificial intelligence.
And who invented it? A New Zealander.
Enter Peter Jackson. A few years ago, the "Lord of the Rings" director made an extensive - not to say sprawling - documentary about the studio sessions for the Beatles album "Let It Be". In order to better arrange the archive recordings, Jackson and his team developed a smart computer program that was able to cleanly separate the voices of the individual band members from the background scenery.
The Beatles also benefited from this: an old demo by John Lennon, which the other three members had already tinkered with in 1995, could be thoroughly polished up with the AI. Lennon's voice finally sounded so clean that the now 81-year-old Paul McCartney was left salivating - his old companion could suddenly be heard "crystal clear". Surreal, somehow.
The rest went quickly: McCartney and Ringo Starr, the two Beatles still alive, completed "Now And Then" in the studio. A few strings, a few old recordings by George Harrison and the magic was complete. Respectively: the old Beatles magic is finally blowing through the world once again. Chart successes here, records there. But above all: So. beautiful. Music.