John Lennon passed away 17 years before the invention of Auto-Tune in 1997, but if you’re curious what the late Beatles frontman and “Imagine” singer would have thought of using the technology in his music, apparently he would have been extremely into it.
We know this thanks to producer Mark Ronson’s documentary series “Watch the Sound” for Apple TV+, in which he interviewed Lennon’s son Sean Ono Lennon, and ran some of John’s vocals through Auto-Tune and a digital harmonizer to create an entirely new, yet still familiar sound.
John Lennon’s composing partner Paul McCartney told Ronson in the first episode of “Watch the Sound” that he thinks John would have actually loved to play around with Auto-Tune. “I’d say that if John Lennon had had an opportunity he would have been all over it,” McCartney said. “Not so much to fix your voice, but just to play with it.
We know this thanks to producer Mark Ronson’s documentary series “Watch the Sound” for Apple TV+, in which he interviewed Lennon’s son Sean Ono Lennon, and ran some of John’s vocals through Auto-Tune and a digital harmonizer to create an entirely new, yet still familiar sound.
John Lennon’s composing partner Paul McCartney told Ronson in the first episode of “Watch the Sound” that he thinks John would have actually loved to play around with Auto-Tune. “I’d say that if John Lennon had had an opportunity he would have been all over it,” McCartney said. “Not so much to fix your voice, but just to play with it.
- 7/30/2021
- by Samson Amore
- The Wrap
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