AI Could Bring The Beatles Back

Sir Paul McCartney is planning on using AI to bring John Lennon's voice back! 

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Howie Long Hall of Fame football player, legendary Oakland Raiders,
super Bowl champion UH now journalist, commentator uh and pitchman
for Sketcher shoes. And the new ads they're running all
the time is the new Sketchers slip ons. They look
like slip into them and their tagline is from him,

(00:24):
this big, buff, tough guy athlete. You'll never have to
bend over again?

Speaker 2 (00:32):
What? What have you drop? Something?

Speaker 1 (00:35):
But how about that for a sales pitch for anything?
You'll never have to bend over again? Is that where
we are as a country.

Speaker 2 (00:42):
I'm lazy, but I'm not that lazy. So I've seen
the Tony Romo ads for those shoes and they look nice.

Speaker 1 (00:49):
You'll never have to bend over again. I feel like
we're just a few years away from you'll never have
to lift your arm again, or you'll never have to,
you know, stand again.

Speaker 2 (00:58):
Right, Go ahead and gett have to do your couch.

Speaker 1 (01:01):
Thanks to Sketchers, lie down prone for the rest of
your life without ever having to lift any of your
limbs with the new blankety blank from AI.

Speaker 2 (01:09):
Right, that is kind of odd.

Speaker 1 (01:10):
You'll never have to bend over again. Now that's a
sales pitch.

Speaker 2 (01:15):
Oh you know, Michael, if I was a non numbskull,
I should have had you come back with some Beatles music.
Speaking of AI, Sir Paul McCartney, who is a knight.
He has a license to ride around on a horse
slashing people with a sword. I don't know if you
knew that came along.

Speaker 1 (01:28):
With it night after night.

Speaker 2 (01:30):
He eighty years old. He is eighty years old, that's correct.
He revealed today that he plans to use AI technology
to extricate John Lennon's voice from a previously unheard track
to create the final Beatles record. We just finished it up.
It'll be released this year. So they went to some
old tapes of Lennon's voice, and he turned to the

(01:54):
Lord of the Rings director John Lennon, Jack of Liverpool
Wait out of Your Death there. But so anyway, that big, giant,
sprawling documentary they did, They just took John Lennon's voice
and in the way of AI these days, he says,
we were able to take John's voice and get it
pure through this AI, so then we could mix the

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record as you normally do. He would not name the
name of the track. It is speculated to be titled
Now and Then, which was composed by Lenin before his
death in nineteen eighty.

Speaker 1 (02:25):
Yeah, while we're talking about music, I thought about this
the other day. I was listening to some really early
Louis Armstrong when he was with King Oliver back in
New Orleans in like nineteen twenty, and it's so scratchy
and the recording is so poor it's almost hard to enjoy.
And I was thinking, I'll bet Ai is going to
be able to lift all of that out of there,

(02:48):
all the instrumentation and singing and everything like that, and
recreate it clearly, don't you think, Yeah, Oh, that'll be awesome.
If they can take really old recordings and make them
sound like new recordings and we get all the full
and out of them, How great would that be for music?

Speaker 2 (03:03):
Yeah, that would be spectacular. And so McCartney talks a
little bit more about the structure of the song and
not the music geek out on you. But I mean,
if you've got like the the verses and the choruses,
and but then you know John died or whatever, he
couldn't make it into record, the guitar and the bridge,
you could just utterly replicate his guitar tone, feed the AI,

(03:23):
you know, the chords and the picking pattern or whatever,
and they could generate it. Sure, I suppose you could
hire somebody to do it too, honestly, but I'll be
interesting to hear. Not because I need another Beatles song, frankly,
but it'll be interesting to see what AI can do
with that. For the reasons you Rolena