Secret Harrison song and alternative recordings of Beatles hits to be sold

An unreleased track by George Harrison is to be auctioned with a series of unseen images of The Beatles.

The secret 1968 song, Hello Miss Mary Bee, comes on a reel-to-reel tape which includes alternative recordings of several Beatles hits.

The Indian-influenced track was written for Harrison’s good friend Mary Bee and produced around the time of his first solo album, Wonderwall Music.

It comes with letters from Harrison to Miss Bee while he was in India with his wife Pattie Boyd. In one extract, 0 The 1968 track by George Harrison is Indian-influenced Boyd writes that Harrison has “just come into the kitchen singing Mary Bee, Mary Bee about to make a lovely cup of tea”.

The tape and messages are expected to fetch around £15,000 as part of Omega Auctions’ Beatles Memorabilia sale in Warrington, Cheshire, next Monday.

Also going under the hammer are 70 previously unseen negative images of The Beatles takenjust before the death of manager Brian Epstein in 1967.

Auctioneer Paul Fairweather said: “Whichever lucky person buys the collection will have exclusive access to a piece of history from George’s most influential period as both a Beatle and solo artist.

“It is an incredible song which really shows George’s fun-loving and caring side.”