Yellow Submarine - Free As A Bird Mystery Cache
Yellow Submarine - Free As A Bird
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Free As A Bird
"Free as a Bird" is a song originally composed and recorded in 1977 as a home demo by John Lennon. In 1995 a studio version of the recording, incorporating contributions from Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr, was released as a single by the Beatles, 25 years after their break-up and 15 years after the death of Lennon. The single was released as part of the promotion for The Beatles Anthology video documentary and the band's Anthology 1 compilation album. For the Anthology project, McCartney asked Lennon's widow Yoko Ono for unreleased material by Lennon to which the three remaining ex-Beatles could contribute. "Free As a Bird" was one of two such songs (along with "Real Love") for which McCartney, Harrison, and Starr contributed additional instrumentation, vocals, and arrangements. Jeff Lynne of Electric Light Orchestra, who had worked with Harrison on Harrison's album Cloud Nine and as part of the Traveling Wilburys, was asked to co-produce the record. McCartney, Harrison and Starr originally intended to record some incidental background music, as a trio, for the Anthology project, but later realised, according to Starr, that they wanted to record "new music". According to Harrison, they had always agreed that if one of them wasn't in the band, the others would never replace them and, " ... go out as the Beatles", and that the "only other person that could be in it was John".
McCartney asked Ono if she had any unreleased recordings by Lennon, so she sent him cassette tapes of four songs. "Free as a Bird" was recorded by Lennon in 1977, in his and Ono's Dakota building apartment in New York City, but was not complete. The original tape of Lennon singing the song was on a cassette, with vocals and piano on the same track. They were impossible to separate, so Lynne had to produce the track with voice and piano together, but commented that it was good for the integrity of the project, as Lennon was not only singing occasional lines, but also playing on the song. Starr said that as Lennon was not in the studio, the three remaining Beatles agreed they would pretend that Lennon had "gone for lunch", or had gone for a "cup of tea". The remaining ex-Beatles recorded a track around Lennon's basic song idea, but which had gaps they had to fill in musically. The Beatles' overdubs and production were recorded between February and March 1994 in Sussex, England, at McCartney's home studio.
"Free as a Bird" was premiered on BBC Radio 1 in the early hours of 20 November 1995. It was released as a single in the UK on 4 December 1995, two weeks after its appearance on the Anthology 1 album. The B-side song is “Christmas Time(Is Here Again)”. The single sold 120,000 copies in its first week, entering the UK Singles Chart at number 2. Released on 12 December 1995 in the US, the song reached no.6 on the Billboard Hot 100, becoming The Beatles' 34th Top 10 single in America.
Answer the following question for the correct coords.
On what date was "Free As a Bird" released as a single in the UK?
4 December 1995 - N 30 23.191 W 082 34.637
26 December 1963 - N 30 22.897 W 082 35.527
18 January 1966 - N 30 23.856 W 082 34.870
14 November 1977 - N 30 23.527 W 082 34.046
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