Carnival Of Light | Fab forum

Paul did want to put it out on Anthology 2 but George would have none of it and refused its inclusion.  It will come out one day but Olivia may keep with George's wishes and insist on it being in the vaults. Paul, Ringo, Olivia and Yoko all have to consent, or have no objections, to a release before anything can begin to happen.

Considering Paul has often stated how he was playing around with sound collages, tape loops and all that avant garde stuff  before John, who is most associated with it, its more likely he would want people to know Carnival of Light as it was his initial idea really. And its not like Paul to leak anything Beatley.

The other question is would Yoko want it released if it showed Paul to be ahead of John in that department? There is still a little ongoing battle between Yoko and Paul.

Maybe they could do a Carnival of Light/Mary Jane (remix) single – the freaky Beatles.

Paul simply cant. For any Beatles material he has to get clearance and agreement from Olivia, Ringo and Yoko. If any 1 of them refuse then nothing happens. Same goes if the others want to use any beatles material.

Paul kind of made his own bed at the time of suing the others to break up the beatles partnership when he rightly insisted that the agreement was always if there wasnt a complete consensus then it didnt happen. A key part of Pauls victory. Cant turn around 40 years later and say anything to the contary.

Olivia would be against it in keeping with George's own reservations.

If Paul did release it as a Paul solo recording then i'd imagine he would be open to legal action as it is a beatle recording recorded in 1967 under whatever legal contracts and gentlemens agreements that currently operates. Otherwise Yoko could issue albums of unreleased John beatle era songs under the name of John Lennon.

That's…not terrible, has its interesting moments. Kinda krautrock-y, like early Tangerine Dream or Amon Düül circa 1969. Or Pink Floyd from the same era. I think it sounds like something the Beatles were entirely capable of. And listen to that brief spoken bit at 12:25: That sounds a LOT like John's voice to me! I wish I had a wav file of this so I could listen to all the speeded-up voices slowed down to regular speed, to listen for Scouse-sounding accents.

But unfortunately, starting about the eleven-minute mark, there are several bursts of electronic noise that appear to be the result of a synthesizer with (I think) a sample-and-hold function, or a computerized simulation. And synths weren't available to the Beatles (or practically anybody) in January '67, so I guess this would indeed be another fake, unless they had some other means of producing those sounds, that I'm not aware of. Still, though, of the three "Carnival of Light" fakes I've heard, this one sounds the most convincing – to my ears, anyways.