THE BEATLES
The Recording of 'Free As A Bird' Yoko Ono set the ball rolling in 1993 when she handed the three remaining Beatles a handful of tapes John Lennon had recorded just before he died. Suddenly rumors surfaced about a possible Beatles reunion with the recording sessions to take place at Paul's private recording studio. Two songs, 'Free As A Bird' and 'Real Love', would be chosen to add addition instrumentation and voices to. 'Free As A Bird, written by Lennon in 1976 just after he received his US Green Card, was completed by the remaining Beatles in February, 1994. Starr comments on the original recordings made by Lennon: "The problem with John's original recording was that John was singing along to a piano, and recording it in mono on a normal cassette player. The recording wasn't all that great either and you couldn't just pull a fader up or down and change the level of the piano or voice. All we had to work with was what we heard and it wasn't in time either. Included as a producer in these new Beatles sessions was Jeff Lynne, a former band member of ELO. Jeff had been recommended by George Harrison, as they had worked together on George's 1987 album 'Cloud Nine'. Jeff would initially spend some time cleaning up the original Lennon tapes, especially 'Real Love'. Jeff recalls: "The problem with 'Real Love' was not only was there a 60 cycles mains hum going on, there was also a terrible amount of hiss, because it had been recorded at a low level. It also sounded like it was a third generation copy. So I had to get rid of the hiss and mains hum , and there were clicks all the way through it as well. There must of been at least 100 clicks throughout the original recording which we cleaned up with a computer program. It took about a week before it was even usable and transferable to a DAT (Digital Audio Tape)". 'Free As A Bird' was only a quarter as noisy as 'Real Love' and only a bit of equalisation was needed to fix most of the problems". At The End Of Free As A Bird John Says Turned Out Nice Again, But You Have To Play It Backwards To Hear It.
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FREE AS A BIRD 
FREE AS A BIRD Free as a bird,
It's the next best thing to be.
Free as a bird.
Home, home and dry,
Like a homing bird I'll fly
As a bird on wings.
Whatever happened to
The life that we once knew?
Can we really live without each other?
Where did we lose the touch
That seemed to mean so much?
It always made me feel so...
Free as a bird,
Like the next best thing to be.
Free as a bird.
Home, home and dry,
Like a homing bird I'll fly
As a bird on wings.
Whatever happened to
The life that we once knew?
Always made me feel so free.
Free as a bird.
It's the next best thing to be.
Free as a bird.
Free as a bird.
Free as a bird.
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