Experimental Beatles Track May Be Released
LONDON — Paul McCartney wants to release an avant-garde track that The Beatles recorded in 1967.
The 14-minute song “Carnival of Light” includes a distorted guitar and organ, plus the sound of gargling and McCartney and John Lennon shouting “Barcelona!” and “Are you all right?”
McCartney said they made it during a session at Abbey Road and he had asked the other band members to “just wander round all of the stuff and bang it, shout, play it.”
He told the British Broadcasting Corporation that he still has a master tape of it, and that “the time has come for it to get its moment.”
McCartney said that he wanted to include it on The Beatles’ “Anthology” CDs, but the other group members vetoed it.
The singer-songwriter would have to get permission from Ringo Starr, Lennon’s widow, Yoko Ono, and George Harrison’s widow, Olivia Harrison, to release the track.