McCartney Eyes Releasing Experimental Beatles Track- article

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Associated Press
London

Paul McCartney says it's time an experimental Beatles track saw the light of day.

McCartney says he wants to release "Carnival of Light," a 14-minute experimental track the Fab Four recorded in 1967 but never released.

The band played the recording for an audience just once at an electronic music festival in London. It reportedly includes distorted guitar, organ sounds, gargling and shouts of "Barcelona!" and "Are you all right?" from McCartney and John Lennon.

McCartney said during a recording session at Abbey Road studios he asked the other members of the band to "just wander 'round all of the stuff and bang it, shout, play it. It doesn't need to make any sense."

"I like it because it's The Beatles free, going off piste," he told the BBC in a radio interview that was broadcast Thursday. Extracts of the interview were published Sunday in The Observer newspaper.

McCartney said he still had a master tape of the piece and "the time has come for it to get its moment."

McCartney told the BBC he had a long-standing interest in avant-garde music. He said "Carnival of Light" was inspired by experimental composers John Cage and Karlheinz Stockhausen.

He said he had wanted to include the track on the Beatles' "Anthology" compilation, but was vetoed by his bandmates.

McCartney would need permission from Ringo Starr and the widows of Lennon and George Harrison to release the track.

[T_Bone0806]

Casual Beatles fans should be forewarned...this is NOT the second coming of Hey Jude".

I've heard some of this "music". It's noise, basically. It makes "Revolution 9" sound like "She Loves You". It is interesting in an historical way, and even then, only if you REALLY are a Beatle fanatic and want to hear as much as possible of everything they've ever created in a recording studio.

In other words, it ain't gonna be something you'll be playing in the cd deck whilst driving with the top down on a sunny summer day