Carlos Mendes

The mysterious Carlos Mendes was gifted with a previously unreleased Paul McCartney composition, "Penina," for an obscure 1969 single. Indeed, this is probably the most obscure composition written by a member of the Beatles, and recorded and released by someone else but not by the Beatles, while the Beatles were an active band. The song itself was a simple, even trite keyboard-based ballad that sounded more suited for the easy listening market than the rock one. Little is known about Mendes and how he got the song, other than that he was a Portuguese vocalist and that McCartn...