Carnival Of Light

Exclusive! Lost Beatle Track Unearthed!

By Mark Ellen

Deep-end Beatles obsessives like myself (writes parishioner Mark Ellen) have lost a fair amount of sleep over the years fantasing about the possible existence of Carnival Of Light, the highly legendary "lost" Fabs outtake. Although no-one has ever heard it - it remains intruigingly unbootlegged - the song merits a fairly substantial footnote in Ian Macdonald's stupendous "Revolution In The Head" and was even logged in the Abbey Road session notes as having been taped in Studio 2 on January 5 1967, smack in the middle of several attempts to nail down Penny Lane. But no Beatle, to my knowledge, has ever gone on record to offer any official insight. Until now! I was interviewing McCartney this week in his London office - where the album collection, incidentally, includes "The Vocal Selections Of Fats Domino" and the musical "The Unsinkable Molly Brown" - and was at that point of the encounter where you're almost being physically dragged out of the door as there's another interviewer waiting in the wings, and I decided to pop the all-important question. And managed to solicit the following for Rocking Vicar who, I rather suspect, are the sole community of individuals on God's earth who might be genuinely interested. Here follows what may well be the first parish world exclusive!

RockingVicar: Just one last question - "Carnival Of Light," does it actually exist?

Paul McCartney: It does exist, yeah. We recorded it in about fifteen minutes. It's very avant garde - as George would say 'avant garde a clue' - and George did not like it 'cos he doesn't like avant garde music .

RV: Who wrote it?

PM: It's officially me. I instigated it. No there's no lyrics, it's avant garde music. You would class it as ... well you wouldn't class it actually, but it would come in the Stockhausen/John Cage bracket ... John Cage would be the nearest . It's very free-form. Yeah man, it's the coolest piece of music since sliced bread!

RV: This is early '67?

PM: I was asked about '67 to do it by Barry Miles - you know, who did my book Many Years From Now - and he asked me to do it for this event at The Roundhouse called Carnival Of Light, so that's how it got its title. And he asked me to write a fifteen to twenty minute piece, and I was into that kind of thing, not on record with The Beatles, but just for that. I went into the studio and said to the guys, Look we've got half an hour before the session officially starts, would you mind terribly if I did this thing?

RV: So this is with the other Beatles?

PM: With the other Beatles. This is a Beatle record. And they all just fell in with the spirit of it and I just said, Would you go on that and would you stay on that and would you be on that and we'll just take twenty minutes to do it in real time? And they all just got into it.

RV: Why don't you release it?

PM: I actually have a project I would like ... I'm involved ... One of the many things I did, I did a thing called The Grateful Dead Photo Film, using Linda's snapshots and making them move, dissolving between them and making them into a film, a short art film, which I showed at festivals and things. And I'm actually in the process - although everything else and its uncle is holding it up - but I've got a Beatles photo film on the go and I would love to use it as part of the soundtrack of that.

RV: There was a rumour it was going to come out on Anthology. What happened with that?

PM: It was up for consideration on The Anthology and George vetoed it. He didn't like it. Maybe its time hadn't come.

Любопытная информация

To put the record straight...

I am the 'Edwards' of Binder Edwards & Vaughan who were responsible for staging 'The Million Volt Light and Sound Rave' otherwise known as the 'Carnival of Light' that you refer to.

The avant-garde track you refer to did not contain a version of 'Penny Lane' but Paul singing 'Fixing a Hole' on the piano. The tape was taken to America by one Ray Anderson (who was brought over from the States to assist us with the light show). I have no knowledge of what happened to it after that.

Paul's electronic experiments were played along with tapes from 'Unit Delta Plus' an offshoot of the BBCs Radiophonic workshop. Regards,
Dudley.

А вот есть у Dead Can Dance одноименная песня - она имеет какое-то отношение к битловской?

mARGO

нет

Carnival Of Light (McCartney-Lennon-Harrison-Starr)
McCartney-Lennon-Harrison-Starr: voices, organ, guitar, tambourine, effects, loops
Recorded: 5 January 1967
Produced: George Martin
Time: 13:48

https://www.beatles.ru/news/news.asp?news_id=4375

Макка решился издать эту песню, одобрям-с!
Только в каком виде, на каком диске?

У кого есть ссылка с этой темой на ютубе?

Это оно?

Наверное оно, только короткое какое-то :)

Тогда мне его и даром не нужно)

2Sitaradio:

>Тогда мне его и даром не нужно)

ну так другим надо!

2Стас:

Ну, надо, значит - купят. В чем вопрос?)

вот любопытно послушать!



Сэр Пол Маккартни намерен в ближайшее время опубликовать ранее неиздававшуюся песню The Beatles "Carnival of Light".

Импровизированная композиция, длящаяся 14 минут, была записана битлами 5 января 1967 года на студии Abbey Road в Лондоне в ходе работы над песней "Penny Lane".

Трек перемежается бессвязными выкриками вроде "Ты в порядке?" и "Барселона!", искаженными звуками гитар, ударных и церковного органа и психоделическими эффектами, пишет издание The Observer.

"Carnival of Light" лишь однажды исполнялась на публике. В том же году фонограмма прозвучала на фестивале электронной музыки в театре Roundhouse на севере Лондона, причем зрители были не в курсе, что слушают новое произведение ливерпульской четверки.

Сами битлы так и не решились издать песню, посчитав ее слишком авангардной. Однако спустя более 40 лет Маккартни переменил свое мнение. В интервью одной из радиопередач музыкант признался, что до сих пор хранит у себя пленку с оригиналом записи в надежде ее опубликовать. При этом он заметил, что планировал издать "Carnival of Light" еще в 1996 году на альбоме "Anthology", однако тогда против выступил Джордж Харрисон.

По словам Маккартни, "Carnival of Light" вдохновлена такими композиторами как Джон Кейдж и Карлхейнц Штокхаузен и служит прекрасной иллюстрацией "съезжающих с катушек" битлов.

Для издания "Carnival of Light" Маккартни обратится за согласием к Ринго Старру и вдовам Джона Леннона и Джорджа Харрисона Йоко Оно и Оливии Харрисон.

http://www.kp.ua/daily/171108/62660/

Это сообщение было перемещено из темы "Маккартни издаёт неизвестную песню The Beatles".

Очень интересно! :)) пускай издает. Надо надеяться, никто не против! ) А при чем тут Барселона?.

Это сообщение было перемещено из темы "Маккартни издаёт неизвестную песню The Beatles".

2Olesia:

>Очень интересно! :)) пускай издает. Надо надеяться,
>никто не против! ) А при чем тут Барселона?.

Притом же, причём "cranberry sauce" в "Strawberry Fields Forever".

Не очень как-то получается, если уже в 1996 обсуждали, и Харрисон был против.
И насчет авангардности в 1967 вопрос?
А как же через год Revolution 9?

А там еще были "сумасшедшие старухи":


"demented old women", according to one account, with John crying "Barcelona!" while Paul screams, "Are you alright?," with added whistling and water gargling. Track four had more sound effects, tambourine shaking and tape echo. The track ended with Paul shouting, "Can we hear it back now?"

Posters for the Carnival of Light

and Sound Rave where "Carnival of Light" premiered.

В общем это какая-то очередная утка, в которой Маккартни через каждые 6 лет бывает заинтересован. Она появляется на свет уже в третий раз:

UPDATE: The August '96 issue of MOJO says that Paul McCartney is considering releasing "Carnival of Light" as the sound track to an experimental film he's making using images of the Beatles. The film would be similar to one he made about the Grateful Dead using Linda's photos.

UPDATE, April 2002: The Rockingvicar.com recently put up a short interview with Paul McCartney discussing this unreleased track. We reprint it here in its entirety by kind permission of The Rocking Vicar. Unique rock'n'roll stories emailed free every week.

Только что в новостях по 1му каналу подтвердили про издание Полом песни...
Видимо не утка..

Очень хочу послушать!