Big Foot may still be out there roaming around with Santa, Elvis, and Tupac, but as of this weekend the world is less one myth. That’s right, Beatles fans, Sir Paul McCartney has confirmed the existence of the much speculated psychedelic Fab Four jam “Carnival of Light.”
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“It does exist,” McCartney told a BBC Radio 4 arts program to be broadcast this week, The Observer newspaper reported. “The time has come for it to get its moment.”
McCartney and company recorded the 14-minute tune in 1967, but feared that its “jumble of shrieks and psychedelic effects” would be too adventurous for even their fans to enjoy. Included in these shrieks and effects are the sounds of water gargling and McCartney and Lennon yelling random, sometimes incoherent phrases.
The song was performed once at a music festival for which it was commissioned and has not seen ‘light’ of day since due to a sound George Harrison described as too “avant-garde.” McCartney has recently decided he wants to change that. Assuming he can get the blessing of Yoko Ono, Ringo Starr, and George Harrison’s widow Olivia, McCartney hopes to finally release the mystery track to an always Beatles-hungry public.
An interview with McCartney, who coincidentally has an album coming out this month under the moniker the Fireman, regarding the song will air on Front Row, Radio 4 this Thursday.
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