McCartney plans to release rare Beatles track
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Paul McCartney plans to use a Beatles song that hasn’t been heard in 35 years as the soundtrack to a film montage of his late wife Linda’s photos, according to British press reports.
Paul McCartney plans to use a Beatles song that hasn’t been heard in 35 years as the soundtrack to a film montage of his late wife Linda’s photos, according to British press reports.
According to London’s Sunday Times, the 14-minute song, titled “Carnival of Light,” was recorded at North London’s Abbey Road studios during sessions for the “Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band” album.
“It was a kind of uncomposed, free-for-all melange of sound that went on,” producer George Martin said of the track. “It was not considered worthy as issuing as a normal piece of Beatles music at the time.”
The track reportedly was played in public only once, during an art festival at London’s Chalk Farm in January of 1967.
McCartney is said to be creating a “photofilm” using many of the approximately 4,000 photos of the band that his late wife took from 1967 to 1970.