BEATLES MAGAZINE: "NOW AND THEN" WAS NOMINATED FOR RECORD OF THE YEAR AT THE 67th GRAMMY AWARDS

Saturday, 9 November 2024

"NOW AND THEN" WAS NOMINATED FOR RECORD OF THE YEAR AT THE 67th GRAMMY AWARDS

The Beatles’ ‘Now and Then’ is up for two Grammy awards this year, the first AI-assisted song to be nominated for an award.

The Fab Four’s “Now and Then,” refined using AI and released last year, is up for Record of the Year and Best Rock Performance, pitting the band against artists like Chappell Roan and Beyoncé.
Last year, used an AI assisted program to clean up the poor sound quality of some John Lennon demos from 1978 to create “the last Beatles record.” The resulting track resurrected old recordings of both Lennon and George Harrison, alongside current recordings from McCartney and Ringo Starr, to make the song a reality.

Paul took inspiration from filmmaker Peter Jackson’s “The Beatles: Get Back” documentary, the 2021 series based on archival footage of recording sessions for Let It Be. McCartney and his team used the same AI-based audio editing software producer Giles Martin used to make a new stereo mix of the Beatles’ Revolver.

The AI-based software is similar to how certain video or audio chat platforms like Zoom, FaceTime, or Discord might filter out background noise from a call. Machine learning helped isolate the sound of Lennon’s late ‘70s demo tapes to clean up existing audio for use in a modern song.

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