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meanmistermustard said
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.
 

I’ve never got the impression that John “is most associated” with tape loops for George Martin, among others, have confirmed Paul’s story about being the first to discover how to create this peculiar sound on his home tape machine.  It would be most interesting if someone were to ask Yoko Ono (perhaps it’s on her “do not ask” list for interviews?) if she’s indeed heard it and what she thinks of it.  I’m not so sure about her wanting to block this one “if it showed Paul to be ahead of John in that department”, I would think that she’d be more inclined to release it to show that John genuinely was into what they were up to in 1968-69 when public opinion was that she was leading John far astray from his creative pathway.

It’s most puzzling all around, for although he has made no bones about expressing his disdain for this kinda music in the past, Yoko claims that George was in fact the one who’d proclaimed “let’s do this” when John first discussed the concept of creating the sound picture that turned out to be ‘Revolution #9′, not to mention his own “clue” called ‘Electronic Sound ‘.  The only conclusion that I can come up with, based on the opinions of the few who’ve actually heard it, is that this track probably sounds so bad that George simply didn’t want to be associated with it at all.  The bits that those who’ve heard it comment on the most negatively are the screaming by Paul & John which would probably make most of us feel uncomfortable in the same way that we do upon listening to ‘Don’t Worry Kyoko (Mummy’s Only Looking For Her Hand In The Snow)’, and we should probably be most grateful for George’s objections.

I’m usually always for the preserving of songs to reflect the closest thing to their original intention, but this is one where I’d make an exception.  The best way to release ‘Carnival Of Light ‘, in my opinion, is to make it available in a format where people can make their own mixes from the separate tracks.  There’s probably many very interesting sounds there to play with, and it could ignite a whole new wave of people interested in experimenting in stretching the boundaries of sonic applications, goodness knows that music nowadays could use an infusion of new innovations to prevent the scene from further eroding into the realm of the mundane as it has for some time now.  Some of the fakes produced over the years are very interesting and surprisingly refreshing to listen to, imagine the possibilities if we had the ability to create our very own ‘Carnival Of Light ‘ from The Beatles’ masters, that I could get into…:-)