The Beatles Bible - Topic: Free as a Bird.

Sitar Soul on Free as a Bird.

Tue, 16 Nov 2010 05:23:11 +0000

I first heard it when I got my copy of the Anthology 1 vinyl; and was brought to tears.

GniknuS on Free as a Bird.

Tue, 16 Nov 2010 02:32:48 +0000

I agree mith, Free as a Bird had to grow on me, but now I really like the song alot. I get Real Love stuck in my head quite often, that song has some of my favorite lyrics in it.

mithveaen on Free as a Bird.

Tue, 16 Nov 2010 01:24:43 +0000

It's not that we didn't like it like but you have to understand… we had been without Beatles for how many?? 25 years? And without John for almost 15 years… so we were expecting I dunno… a Strawberry Fields or something like that. So listening to that tune it was like "Umb?" but it's fantastic because as George says that's how the Beatles would have sounded had they continued like the Rolling Stones. We weren't just used to that sound.

I love the song. But it had to grow on me… And Real Love is beautiful, ...

Dear Prudence on Free as a Bird.

Tue, 16 Nov 2010 00:25:10 +0000

Free as a Bird didn't dissappoint me at all. I first heard it last thanksgiving. I had a lot of time to kill before dinner was ready, and incidentally there was a Beatles music video collection on television. I sat down to watch it and I saw Penny Lane, I am the Walrus, One after 909, stuff like that. The last music video they showed was Free as a Bird. I was like "Well I've never seen or heard this before" so I watched it, and was TOTALLY taken aback by it. I had this slur of emotions afterwards. Its ...

mr. Sun king coming together on Free as a Bird.

Tue, 16 Nov 2010 00:02:36 +0000

Now And Then will not be released Ever!!!!!!! It is not complete and Ringo doesn't want to do it.

Getting Better on Free as a Bird.

Mon, 15 Nov 2010 23:57:48 +0000

I think this song is really good

I imagine that instead of the video of the song at the end of Anthology if John had been alive it would end with a concert and the video but with a whole album.

Lately i have liked it a lot more but Real Love was my favorite song before i started liking Free as a Bird

I can`t wait for now and then.

I wasn`t born yet before this song was released so sometimes when i listen to it i say "Oh! no, the boys avoided me again"

c64wood on Free as a Bird.

Mon, 15 Nov 2010 23:38:42 +0000

The first time I heard it during the Anthology, I thought it sounded like a Beatles/ELO song. After the fact, I found out that Jeff Lynne co-produced it, so to me it's still a Beatles/ELO hybrid. It's not a bad song, but it was not great. It's like wanting a Sony PS3 for Christmas and getting an X-Box instead.

Real Love was a better song, and better produced IMO

CranberrySauce on Free as a Bird.

Mon, 15 Nov 2010 22:05:20 +0000

I, too, was not yet born when it came out.

I remember hearing it for the first time on Anthology 1 and thinking, "What?! This can't be an early Beatles recording!" and then looking it up on Wikipedia (man's non-canine best friend) and finding out the story behind it. I liked it even more after reading the backstory.

The video was really well done, though many of the Youtube commentors were jabbering about 'new' Paul is dead clues in it...

mithveaen on Free as a Bird.

Mon, 15 Nov 2010 22:00:06 +0000

Mhhh ok let me say it like this. The song Free as a Bird was premiered on national radio at 9pm.The Beatles Anthology was premiered that very same day at 9pm. So everybody had their radios AND their TVs on. It was quite cool. I don't remember if they showed the video Free as a Bird at the end of the first episode, it must have been.

Zig on Free as a Bird.

Mon, 15 Nov 2010 21:52:11 +0000

if I remember correctly, it was the same here in the US - it was played after the last episode of Anthology. It's the same on the Anthology DVD's.

mithveaen on Free as a Bird.

Mon, 15 Nov 2010 21:48:29 +0000

OK just something I have to say because it seems my post doesn't make sense : The song was premiered on radio at the same time that The Beatles Anthology was premiered on Mexican TV. I know it sounds weird, but it did.

mr. Sun king coming together on Free as a Bird.

Mon, 15 Nov 2010 21:05:02 +0000

Zig said:

Joe said:

This was before the web came of age, and I wasn't involved in any bootleg trading, so I'd never heard the song before. I got a bit teary but it wasn't exactly a full-on sob.

Radio 1 played it twice, then the presenters had a bit of a discussion about it (I think one of the people in the studio was Annie Nightingale). The general consensus was that it was a bit underwhelming, but quite often new Beatles songs were like that when they came out anyway.

I remember watching Anthology as it was being ...

Zig on Free as a Bird.

Mon, 15 Nov 2010 18:06:54 +0000

mithveaen said:

What's your story with this song?

I remember being pretty excited when I listened to that song. Later I was kind of disappointed with the song, but it grew on me a lot.

So, were you excited when Free as a Bird was released? Did it disappoint you?

Joe said:

This was before the web came of age, and I wasn't involved in any bootleg trading, so I'd never heard the song before. I got a bit teary but it wasn't exactly a full-on sob.

Radio 1 played it twice, then the presenters had a bit of a discussion about ...

MeanMrsMustard on Free as a Bird.

Mon, 15 Nov 2010 17:50:09 +0000

Sunii said:

I was not yet created.

Neither was I! Well, I was born in June 1995, so, sort of.

Joe on Free as a Bird.

Mon, 15 Nov 2010 16:28:32 +0000

I'd heard somewhere that the Threetles (as they weren't yet called) were adding instruments to a John Lennon demo, and on a trip to Liverpool for a university open day in 1993 I went into the Beatles shop on Mathew Street. I asked the fat bloke behind the counter about it, thinking I could strike up a conversation, but he was pretty rude.

Me: "Oh hi. I've heard about a new Beatles song. What's it called?"

Fat bloke: "Freezerbird"

Me: "Er, what was that?"

Fat bloke: "Free. As. A. Bird."

I went back to the shop the other week and he's still there, looking fat ...