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The Beatles continue work on Penny Lane in Studio 2, Abbey Road, London, England, UK. They also create fourteen minutes of electronic sound collage for the Carnival Of Light Rave, an underground happening set for 28 January and 4 February at The Roundhouse, Chalk Farm, London.
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Paul McCartney : We recorded it (Carnival Of Light) 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 .
I instigated it. 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!
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?'
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I instigated it. 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!
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?'