They made the news last June when an Internet user used artificial intelligence to recreate a Beatles song which then went viral. A few months later, Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr, probably inspired by this success, decided to jump on the bandwagon by reuniting the group for a new hit, Now and Then. And the crowd is won over! Because this Sunday, November 5, the Beatles are at the top of the Charts, the weekly ranking of musical popularity in the United Kingdom.

Before going any further, we'll let you listen:

But then, how could this feat be achieved? To answer this question, we have to go back to the end of the 1970s, when John Lennon recorded a demo including his voice accompanied by a piano melody. Unfortunately, he was assassinated shortly after. It was almost fifteen years later, in 1994, that his widow, Yoko Ono, came to give this recording to the other members of the group.

All that remained was to let the magic enabled by technical progress work, by first isolating John Lennon's voice and then mixing it with recordings by George Harrisson and a new melody produced by the last two members still working. life, to finally get this song. Faced with the success of the latter which further implements the arrival of AI in the music industry, we wonder what the next news item will be. In any case, we have no doubt that this will take place...