A Previously Unheard George Harrison and Ringo Starr Track Has Been Unearthed 

In 1968, George Harrison and Ringo Starr stopped by London’s Trident Studios while on a break from recording Hey Jude. A visit turned into a collaboration with the two Beatles, and the song “Radhe Shaam” was created. 

Since then, though, the track has gone widely unheard until recently, when U.K.-based broadcaster Suresh Joshi–whose attic housed the uncovered track for years–decided to share the unique project with about 100 or so people at the Liverpool Beatles Museum. “Radhe Shaam” was then aired for the first time ever on BBC soon after.

“Time had gone on,” Joshi explained about why the song ended up being unreleased at the time. “The Beatles were breaking up and had various problems so no one wanted to [release it].”

The recording was re-discovered during quarantine by Joshi and a close friend, Deepak Pathak.

“The song itself revolves around the concept that we are all one, and that the world is our oyster,” Joshi said. “Something that we have all realized during this pandemic.”

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