A ‘last’ Beatles song featuring late member John Lennon will be released this year thanks to the use of artificial intelligence, Paul McCartney has said.

In an interview with BBC Radio 4 broadcast on Tuesday, McCartney did not name the track, but said the technique was used on ‘a demo that John had that we worked on’.

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“So when we came to make the last Beatles record … we were able to take John’s voice and put it through this AI so we could mix the record as you normally would.” ,” the singer-songwriter, 80, said.

“We just finished it, it will be released this year.”

The BBC stated in an online article that the song was likely to be ‘Now and then’which Lennon recorded as a demo in 1978, two years before his death in 1980.

McCartney said director Peter Jackson had used the technology for a 2021 documentary series ‘The Beatles: Get Back’which sees the Fab Four making their 1970 album ‘Let it be’,

McCartney said, “He was able to get John’s voice out of a little cassette.”

“We had John’s voice and a piano, he could differentiate them from the AI.”

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The use of AI in music has sparked both excitement and fear about what the technology can bring.

When asked about it, McCartney said: “It’s a very interesting thing … It’s something we’re dealing with at the moment and trying to deal with.”

“… there’s a good side to it and then there’s a scary side, and we’ll just have to see where it goes.”