A track written by Sir Paul McCartney when he was just 16 but never released is among the songs played at a secret final Beatles reunion soon to be seen for the first time.


Thinking Of Linking is one of five songs that he, Ringo Starr and George Harrison played during a mid-Nineties jam.

Now footage of the private gathering will be seen for the first time on a new DVD to be released on March 31.

Three of the songs were recorded in a studio at the late Harrison's Friar Park studios at his home in Henley On Thames.

A further two - Ain't She Sweet and Baby What You Want Me To Do - were recorded sitting on the grass in the sunshine with Harrison and McCartney on ukuleles and Starr slapping his thighs.

Extra footage

The footage has been has been added to the DVD version of Anthology - tracing the band's history - which includes 81 minutes of extra footage.

Sir Paul wrote Thinking Of Linking in the front parlour of his Liverpool home in Forthlin Road. It was written at the same time as I'll Follow The Sun.

"I seem to remember writing it just after I'd had the flu ... I remember standing in the parlour looking out through lace curtains of the window," he once said.

Despite often resorting to the song in the recording studio, including the Abbey Road sessions, it was never issued.

Audition

As they play it, Sir Paul recalls: "It was about one of the first ones. There was a commercial on the cinema for Link Furniture called Thinking Of Linking ...we went to the pictures."

Another of the songs during the trio's final session - on which Harrison and McCartney play acoustic guitars and Starr plays drums with brushes - is the old standard Raunchy. It was the song which Harrison played for Lennon as an audition to join his band.

The final track to be included on the DVD is Blue Moon Of Kentucky.