London, Nov 16 : Sir Paul McCartney is set to release a 14-minute Beatles track, 41 years after its only public performance, it has emerged.
‘Carnival of Light’, recorded in January 1967, features distorted guitars and drum-beats, gargling, church organs, and Sir Paul and John Lennon yelling: "Are you all right?" and "Barcelona!"
The song was performed at an electronic music festival that year and the audience was ignorant that it was a Beatles track.
However, the band never released it, thinking the song was too adventurous.
McCartney said that George Harrison had called such experimentation "avant-garde a clue".