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MACCA'S SPECIAL 'MOTHER AND CHILD' PRESSIE

The version of 'Mother And Child' is a Christmas pressie for his wife and newborn daughter...

Paul McCartney recorded an orchestral version of an unreleased BEATLES song last week as a Christmas present for wife HEATHER and baby daughter BEATRICE.

The former-Beatle drafted in top violinists and harp players to a studio in north London to play on the track called 'Mother And Child'.

A close friend of Paul McCartney told The Sun: " in the Sixties though it was never finished, though The Beatles originally intended that the track appear on their album 'Let It Be'. There are no plans at the moment to release the song as a single.

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