The Unreleased Beatles: Music and Film [Revised & Expanded Ebook Edition] by Unterberger Richie

Author:Unterberger, Richie [Unterberger, Richie]
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Published: 2014-10-21T04:00:00+00:00

1967 Noncirculating Recordings, Known and Rumored

January 4–April 21

Studio Outtakes

Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band sessions

Abbey Road, London

There are actually some Sgt. Pepper outtakes of Beatles songs that have never circulated. The problem is, none of them seem to have been real songs. Instead, judging from the description in The Beatles Recording Sessions, these are the group’s most avant-garde indulgences, perhaps recorded as experimental exercises rather than with any serious intent to develop them for release. Still, at least one of them is among the most discussed never-heard Beatles recordings, even if it probably wouldn’t be a popular or much-listened-to item if it ever saw the light of day.

That track is “Carnival of Light,” a nearly 14-minute experimental collage that was played at the countercultural multimedia event of the same name at the Roundhouse Theatre in London on January 28 and February 4. The cut was recorded at Abbey Road on January 5, and though John Lennon is usually credited as the originator of the group’s furthest-out excursions, Paul McCartney was actually the man behind this enterprise. Combining distorted drum, organ, and lead guitar with church organ, sound effects, tape echo, crazed Lennon-McCartney screaming, and tambourine, it hasn’t been played for the public since it was aired at the Roundhouse. If nothing else, it proves that the Beatles’ explorations into the furthest reaches of the avant-garde predated “Revolution 9” by a good year and a half or so, and that John wasn’t the only Beatle interested in such risky endeavors. In fact the chief engineer on the recording, Geoff Emerick, remembered small excerpts from the session being used in “Revolution 9” itself in his memoir, Here, There and Everywhere: My Life Recording the Music of the Beatles.

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