p2p news / p2pnet: A brand-new Beatles album is being organized for a Las Vegas circus show soundtrack.

The ‘fifth’ Beatle, George Martin, is making background music for a Cirque du Soleil show by remastering unheard recordings from the Fab Four, says the Daily Telegraph.

The show was an ambitious project with “a huge investment,” the story has Neil Aspinall, head of Apple Corps, the Beatles’ record label, saying.

“It involves the creation, by the re-mixing and re-mastering of the Beatles’ recorded performances, of completely new music, which will be featured in the show, and which should lead to the release of the show album.”

Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr are “helping to shape the production” but won’t appear on stage.

In a way, the Cirque du Soleil extravaganza will be a memorial to George Harrison. He came up with the idea two years before his death in 2001.

“He met Guy Laliberte, the founder of Cirque, at a party and, after an impromptu rock jam, they became friends,” says the Telegraph. “Harrison then saw the Cirque show ‘O’, and became excited about a joint stage production.”

The producers will have access to unreleased archival material, including 200 hours of recorded conversations between the Beatles in the recording studio, adds the story.

A Canadian from Quebec, Laliberte is the sole owner of Cirque du Soleil.

Also See:
Daily Telegraph – Beatles will release new album to mark opening of Las Vegas extravaganza, April 10, 2006

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