Free As A Bird(demo)

[kahuna3901]

listening to this actually shows that the song is pretty much finished, just a thew lyrics and a guitar solo short of the finished product. john was just incredible, its amaizing that songs like this and real love existed just as demos, they were amaizing and yet e didnt need to use them. although double fantasy would have been better with these songs rather than the majority of yoko ones.

[TheDownQ]

RIP john you will always be missed

[hexionn]

RIP

[thesinner922]

RIP

[thesinner922]

I always wandered why 80's music sucks so bad. I just realised the reason...

[Cabroni2]

Leyend !

[judaharrison58]

i learned it in piano

[misemasa]

he is free now

[Iloyod]

Genio!



[sakuragi0629]

He will always be forever...... RIP Johnny

[wojiaokatya]

I want the picture of John sleeping for my / the kids bedrooms, so sweet

[spazzcat03]

I think john had no intention of becoming a beatle again , just like he said the dream is over !

[18bluesky]

@spazzcat03 I agree

[18bluesky]

@spazzcat03 I agree with you, with all respect to George, Ringo and Paul.... this is already a masterpiece

[Vazmusic]

He had such a cool approach harmonically. He just weaves in and out of keys. What a talent.

[adamAZ8529]

FREE

[Beatles4President]

the other 3 beatles and jeff lynne did a phenomenal job with the finished product. i miss john :(

[beatle0922]

Spot on! Couldnt have said it better my self

[101beatlesfan]

wow,some different lyrics too

[spider1974]

That pic of him at the Statue of Liberty is the coolest pic of him ever!!!

[EntertainmentWorld10]

Lennon will never die

[kingwoofer]

@EntertainmentWorld10 He's dead, I think.

[10thEnemyHasTheBomb]

Wow, I can actually make out what John is singing in the demo. They drowned out his voice in the released version.

[WmV337]

...his voice is from a tape in the released version. He was long dead when the released version came out.

[10thEnemyHasTheBomb]

*facepalm*

[rollingcube]

says the man with many faces.

[Sshelly34213]

his pitch is off, I mean it was only a practice demo.

He's also not singing in certain places so yea, I'd say it was kind of necessary.

[cultrevolution]

Long live John Lennon! Today is the date he'd gone to Heaven.

[2bin]

Wow. I never heard the original before. Even more heartstring-tugging than the remix.

[andantinowithaswager]

Lennon was so great.

[WiltatKansas]

John Winston Genius.

[colmanaucoin]

the piano is heartbreaking

[thenowuk]

I never realised that Mccartney didn't write the 'whatever happened to....' melody but it was on the original! interesting to hear,thanks!

[cjlc2000]

john lennon is the best of the world.

[shetownguitarist]

he sounded drunk in the begining lol

[lennon890]

There is a video that shows all the meanings/references, type in: The Beatles - Free as a bird (with references)

[redsoxhater2468]

stop advertising your own videos!

[melaniasirotich]

ohhhhhhhhhhhhhh amazing!!!

[UserOfCommonSense]

this is awesome, because you can actually hear that the words are different to the finished song which kind of shows you how the song developed bit by bit. did john finish this song, or did the remaining beatles finish it after his death?

[fishheatcats]

The remaining Beatles finished it in 1994/5 I think. You can hear on this demo version he was just sort of going "whatever happened to, do do do do.... etc." In the finished version Paul, George and Ringo wrote the remaining lyrics and finished up the track. There's a behind the scenes thing on here somewhere it's pretty interesting.

[hanscarter]

My question is, where the hell did Paul McCartney get off claiming the song was a "McCartney/Lennon" composition rather than "Lennon/McCartney"? That's kind of cheap if you ask me. It was John's idea in the first place, Yoko Ono let the rest of the band use this and Real Love. Give proper credit where it's due.

[ltxsmash]

YEAH! i agree with hanscarter, if the Beatles never broke up, it would be called a Lennon/McCartney

if this is a NEW mix, it should STILL be called a Lennon/McCartney because Lennon wrote most of it!

[andionita]

agree with Lennon/McCartney, but that doesn't mean the first one gets more royalties than the second. I saw Paul admitting it sounded better ;-)

[clockworkfiction3]

He never claimed it as McCartney/Lennon. It was credited to Lennon/McCartney/Harrison/Star­key. They had to add quite a lot, though it was based off Lennon's original song.

[WiltatKansas]

It's a total Lennon song. The others produced it.

[clockworkfiction3]

Well it's mostly Lennon. They kind of finished it, and threw in a few unfinished lyrics, along with the guitar solos, drums and the coda at the end.

[WiltatKansas]

The others are geniuses too, not only Paul, George too.

[andionita]

Exacly so, WiltatKansas, and although it is a Lennon song, good ol' Paul comes to the rescue with the lyrics. I always sing that middle eight over John's humming. In my book the Beatles song is a Lennon/McCartney as clear as blue sky.

[WiltatKansas]

The Beatles song, but not the Lennon's demos.

[redsoxhater2468]

yeah. what fishheatcats said.

i believe the videos called

Free Bird/ Real Love.

Its a 10 minute doc

very interesting stuff

[alejandrodepeche]

sin palabras

[CINIKKO]

John te amo, mejor hubiera muerto yo que tu...

[axpenderpi]

esto es la vida,los hijos de nuestros hijos ,escucharan esto hasta la eternidad

[shrandi2001]

watch john version.. type shrandi2001 at search

[tanasobeautiful]

i totally agree..

all theyr songs all sound soo different from one anothers

[gerardoasis2007]

best version

[oldben2008]

My favorite version of his song.

[1987joker]

AMAZING NO OTHER WORD NO OTHER JOKER (not joking this time)

[mannix1967]

the best is John!!!

[tonytapwater]

Great to hear the orginal, what a waste, bloody guns

[drunkenstooge]

Don't make this a political issue, fuck face.

[van76]

So this is the original Free As A Bird sounded like

without the guitars, bass, and drums from Paul, George, and Ringo.

[tonytapwater]

and horrid jeff lynne production, give me this and the demo of real love any day, anyone know how to get all the dakota demos, I really want them, cheers

[cuddleyd]

i thought jeff did a good job

[xamicusx]

wow, amazing....simply amazing