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The rock musicians battling against AI: "If they can do it to Steve and they can do it to me, what's next? How far will they go?"

Exclusive: Peter Frampton and Jerry Shirley on the attempts by the owners of the Steve Marriott estate to replicate the singer's voice with AI – and why they're determined to fight it

As reported last month, Frampton and Shirley are among a growing list of celebrated musicians objecting to plans by the estate of the pair’s late Humble Pie colleague, frontman Steve Marriott, to release so-called ‘new’ recordings from the singer, who died in 1991 at the age of 44. The label are also weighing up repeating the blueprint for the recent album from Cactus, on which drummer Carmine Appice is joined by guests including Ted Nugent, Joe Bonamassa, Pat Travers and Dug Pinnick from King’s X. Cleopatra are also preparing an album of unfinished demos by the late Stiv Bators, the much-loved Lords Of The New Church frontman who passed away in 1990, with a current-day cast that includes Blondie drummer Clem Burke, Glen Matlock from the Sex Pistols, and James Williamson of The Stooges.

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