Free As A Bird [Single] - Beatles (The) (Cassette 1995)

The Free As A Bird single was released on December 12, 1995, as a companion piece to The Beatles' Anthology 1, a collection of outtakes, live performances, and unreleased songs. The song Free As A Bird was the first time John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison, and Ringo Starr appeared on one recording since the breakup of the Beatles in 1970. For fans whose hopes of a Beatles reunion were crushed when Lennon was murdered in 1980, this song was as close as we would ever get to a real reunion. Free As A Bird was a song written and recorded by Lennon at his home in 1977. He recorded the...

The single version of Free As A Bird was released on December 12, 1995, in conjunction with the release of The Beatles-Anthology I, and served as sort of an "appetizer" for the vast expanse of music included in Anthology I. The song marked the first time in twenty five years that all four Beatles appeared on the same record, albeit it was accomplished here in a very unusual manner. Free As A Bird was recorded as a demo by John Lennon on a simple recording machine at his home in New York in 1977. He didn't complete the song at that time, and the only components of the song on the demo version..

As a Beatles fan, it was certainly a real treat to experience what a lot of Beatles fans didn't experience in their lifetime, which is listening to new Beatles music for the first time. The song was written and "demoed" in John Lennon's apartment in the late 70s and was included within the "Lost Lennon" tapes that were sort of the big deal in the 80s. Luckily I had never heard any version of the song until the Anthology series was aired on television in 1994. Free as a Bird sounds like Beatles pop rock that could have easily fit on their last studio release, Abbey Road. It's like The Beatles..

Many years ago, long before the ANTHOLOGY project brought the three surviving Beatles together again in the studio, Ringo Starr said that he hoped they would never reunite; "People would be expecting God," he glumly remarked, "and they would be disappointed." Lacking Divine participation, the "Threetles" did the next best thing, and invoked the spirit of John Lennon. In this instance, they not only recorded an unreleased Lennon original composition, but they actually used John's old demo tape for the lead vocal. This sort of studio wizardry is entirely in keeping with the experimentation...