Like you, I've been inundated with myriad Beatles AI treatments of late. Every day, they seem more outlandish: the Beatles playing Wings songs, the Beatles performing Gotye's "Somebody That I Used to Know," the Beatles singing "We Are the World," John Lennon playing Oasis' "Wonderwall," and, my personal favorite, Paul McCartney taking the artificial microphone to sing "How Do You Sleep," Lennon's 1971 vocal screed about Beatle Paul.
To my ears, they're fairly unconvincing on the whole. But at the current rate, prevailing AI technologies will likely remedy these discrepancies with predictable speed. This brings us to this week's headlines trumpeting new AI-generated Beatles material. During a BBC Radio 4 interview, McCartney announced that a "new" Beatles record is on the horizon. Thankfully, he appears in all likelihood to be speaking about the fate of "Now and Then," one of Lennon's late-period demos.
