Free as a bird - John Lennon (1977 Demo) [AI Remaster]
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- Опубліковано 4 лис 2023
- The earliest known demo of Free as a bird". An astonishing detail: in some passages John hasn't found any lyrics yet.
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My father was ill with lung cancer when this song was released...It hit him so hard...I can remember him bursting into tears as he heard it for the first time. He was sooo amazed at how come technology was able to bring the Beatles back to us. He died 10 months later. I wish he was here to celebrate the Beatles again with "Now and then". Carpe Diem, my friends❤
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How sad but uplifting that your Dad go to hear this beautiful song. So sorry for your loss take care ❤
Your dad seemed like an amazing fellow..peace be with him and your family........
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Thank you for sharing your story with us.
I love how Paul and George filled in the blanks for John. So beautiful.
♥️👍🏼🎵⭐️
As much as I agree, this song and Imagine stand up on their own purely from the quality of the chord structures and lyrics and melody. But of course. All the Beatles songs complimented each others playing/input.
@@mikemccaine4229 yes, I just liked the lines in particular that they wrote. They could have come up with anything, but they went the sentimental route and, tho it's a love song on the surface, I feel they were also singing the line to John. So it tugs at my heart strings.
That’s what made the Beatles perfection. Four sums that equal the whole part.
Eran sus mejores complementos :')
Me learning today that Paul completed the unfinished line "whatever happened to the life that we once knew" and added "can we really live without eachother" 😭
I wasn't aware of it before either
I never realised John had written that "whatever happened to" line 🤯. Always though that was McCartney reminiscing!
Paul ruining it and trying to make it another love song 😴
@@AE-bm4noGet out of here.
@@AE-bm4no Grow up
The calm in his voice is priceless
John's voice alone is great to hear.
As good as Justin Bieber and Vengaboys though?
Always and forever! 👍
It’s haunting. One of the great singers.
@@tf2368be for real
@@tf2368 As good as me up your mom's ass.
This should be re-released with "Real Love" and put on new Beatles Album with "Now And Then". This song is a killer. Imagine Beatles has 3 songs in top 100 Billboard again..dream.
In 2025 could be released Anthology again
HOPEFULLY Jeff Lynne is involved!!
I agree…a remix with Giles using the same AI software would polish up free as a bird and real love. We haven’t heard the last of the boys just yet! 😉
An album with 3 tracks on it?😂
Imagine...
What a sad tragedy that this creative genius was snuffed out at 40 by an evil maniac. Think of how many other songs like this that John would have written in the decades since then. And we would be humming. Lost FOREVER. 😢
Yes, it makes me so angry how the world was robbed of all of the songs that were to come but some crazy person took John's life. Such a tragedy. So unfair and pointless. 😞
And if he had been a "manchurian candidate" to kill John ?
In a parallel universe he lived on another day and wrote some wonderful songs.
@@nickpmusic That is a very nice thought! Thanks for sharing it. ❤️😊
The day the music died . I've never gotten over it really.
This song in its raw form sounds amazing. John’s voice and music can never be matched.
I Love this demo version. John was such a talent. What a guy.
John is completely outstanding.
Love this version very much. It's so deep.
And it's pure, just John and a piano
Absolutely!!
The studio version is a masterpiece, please don't forget.
Exactly ❤
素晴らしいの一言。ジョンにしか作れないコードワークと「free as a bird」というキーワードが、2020年代になっても色褪せない。とにかく素晴らしい。
The version they produced for the Anthology album is wonderful of course. But theres something beautifully haunting about this raw version. Lennon on his piano gives it the purest form for the melody to truly hit.
I hear sadness in his voice, and I believe I know why. In 1974, while Lennon was in LA, he visited the studio Lynyrd Skynyrd was in, recording Second Helping (The Record Plant), for just a brief visit in the control room. There are a couple of Skynyrd documentaries that reference this.
It's my belief that, if John Lennon visits your studio on the day you're recording, then you've done something he likes.
So, you have to wonder, "Why would John Lennon be interested in Lynyrd Skynyrd?" In '69, the Beatles released I Want You (She's So Heavy) with its long jam session ending on Abbey Road. John Lennon loved the jam session (we would have gotten along great because, I do too!), and on Skynyrd's first album they released Free Bird with its long jam session at the end, beautifully adorned with jamming lead guitar solos. Apparently, Lennon never spoke to the band, as they said he left after just a few minutes.
Fast forward to October 20, 1977, John's birth month (born the 9th), and news about Skynyrd's plane crash start hitting the airways. We know that during this time, Lennon was in his "house husband" phase and was surely to see the news on TV.
I believe when he saw this he IMMEDIATELY became concerned about his own mortality, and this concern led him to begin writing the last three songs we would hear coming from the Beatles.
There is sadness in his voice; he sounds despondent, like he just lost a friend. The only other song, I can think of, where he sounds this despondent is "Julia"; singing about his mother, who was killed in a hit and run accident by a drunk off-duty police officer.
Even though Paul finished the line, I would be willing to bet that that's where Lennon would have taken it anyway, considering his frame of mind at the time.
There's more to this, but I'm running out of time.
@@jsmyers24151 lyrics of remember of this way
I wondered if they might 'clean up' the two 90's singles, but you know what, I actually love the quality of the demos and the John vocal on the originals. It has a ghostly quality to it. Ethereal. It makes me feel really nostalgic. Leave them as they are I say.
I agree
There were plenty of John's songs on the classic albums that had a raw unpolished sound. So yeah, I agree.
I think a combo of Yazoo and The Flying Pickets cover is required to punish us for not being deserving of individual talent.
Agreed - the ethereal quality of John’s voice ads more than an AI clean up will ever do.
Look for free as a bird ai enhanced Lennon it's great
Listening to the incredible chord changes in this demo makes me realize the amazing genius of this hero of song writing. Immortalized forever in songs like this.
Effortless songwriting. Switches keys easily, seamlessly, and just sings so sweetly over the top. No formal musical training - just pure talent. Odd lyrics which half tell a story so perfectly you don’t know what it’s about and yet you do. Just him filling in bits with “do do do” is still perfect.
Agree, except I would caution against implying 'talent' is some mystical zero effort thing. No formal musical training, but one heck of a lot of practice and experience writing songs.
@@sarahwhite7098Practice and knowing yourself. Knowing what part of you to nurse.
@@CraigStCyrPlus It takes a huge amount of effort to get to effortless songwriting.
@@sarahwhite7098 Couldn't agree more. ✌️
@@sarahwhite7098 Depends.
ありがとうございます。
ジョンの生バージョンを聴く事ができて感動しています。素晴らしいです。
One of the most talented musicians of all time. Up there with any of the big classical artists.
I can cry over and over listening to this. More free than anything is his soul and limitless openness. Way, way up there with his very best songs. I would say I have heard more or less all of the very greatest musicians. Johnny boy trumps them all.
This brings thoughts of John leaving so soon and how he left. Very troubling. I am happy to have been enjoying The Beatles since their songs were played on radio well before they came to America. No one comes close to them.
Way before ? Not by much in America I bought my first Beatles record in 1963. But it does bring that horrible night back to mind in Dec. Of 1980.
Me TOO
This song was my first encounter with the Beatles.
Now I am the same age as John.
Thank you, John.
John’s voice is the greatest.
Lennon was just the greatest. Such a beautiful lyrical poet, no one can write a song with the emotional impact that John Lennon could.
He would be insufferable today.
@@tofayeahyeah1905 So you dislike him based on your assumption’s on what he would have acted like today had he not been murdered?
@@tofayeahyeah1905Huh your not a nice person.
@@j.c7719 I love his music. But he would have been a communist, "fur is murder", "stop the oil" kind of guy, i imagine.
@@tofayeahyeah1905 I disagree, he was intelligent enough to know that communism didn’t work in practice when he was alive, he was the only Beatle who refused to go vegetarian and I don’t think he would have cared too much about oil. He was always for peace and love, yes, he was anti-establishment but for all the right reasons.
Is voice just hits you. Makes a average song sound amazing. What a legend well missed
Average lol
It is average . Lennons version of real love was much better the Beatles version of real love was better. The video is good though
@@russschofield9486what?🤔
This version is gorgeous.
Forver a beautiful song. Thank you, John.
That got the heart going.
John Lennon was something special.
The first time I heard this, I just cried. To this day, I can still feel the tears behind my eyes.
A gem. I ve never heard this demo version before and i think that it s simply fantastic. I have no words to describe the emotions that i feel hearing this beautiful, marvellous, touching melody. Better than the “complete” version made by the rest of the band, in my opinion
no! This is very pretty, but…The complete version is a true Beatles song…just listen to the harmonies
Yeah. It goes straight for the jugular. The missing lyric is strangely affecting: there's really nothing more to say after that first line. The last thing this song needed was orchestration and polish.
Beauty in simplicity, peerless artist.
John made the basis of a great song, Paul, George, Ringo perfected it.. they are truly genius musicians..🎉❤
Yes they did, but I think it is far better here without the electric drum machine.
"Where we goin' Johnny??"
'To the toppa most of the poppa most..!!!"
RIP John.
Beautiful song
How beautiful this song is ...
Listen to this, an unreleased masterpiece -> ua-cam.com/video/inL7szJXyqA/v-deo.html
Simply pure wonderful music
We love you John! We will miss you forever…
One of my favourites from John.rest now John your now free as a 🕊🕊🕊🕊🕊🕊🕊🕊🕊🕊🕊☮️☯️☦️🙏🌻🌻🌻🌻🌷🌷🌷🌷🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹Godbless you Amen
it's so magical to hear the voice of john.
Shine On🌟John Lennon .. Lighting up The Universe for all Eternity
how i wish he was given even just a year more to live , he could've given us who knows how many dozens more songs😭
Love this. Amazing song. John the Greatest.
he was a genius❤his songwriting!his voice! just magic!
This is so incredible! Love this pared down, simple early version. It’s all there! So good to hear John singing this now.
Absolutely gave me the chills. Just so beautiful, i wish John had released this song in its rawest form because i think it compares with Imagine in its sheer beauty
Очень душевные и точные слова. Марк Чепмен сотворил величайшее зло на земле.
Dieses Stück berührt mich jedesmal aufs neue, wenn ich es höre. Es hat etwas magisch friedvolles an sich. Thank you John!
Juhu, jemand der Deutsch spricht!
@@MusicbyKRSie Liebt Dich, yeah yeah yeah
@@DolleHengst You can't imagine how strange it is for me when I hear the Beatles in German
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) 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
Is the next best thing to be
Free as a bird
Free as a bird
Free as a bird
Oo-oo-oo
Thank you very much!!! Very important know the words!!!!
He doesn't have the full lyrics then... paul mccartney added the lyrics "can we really live without each other? Where did we lose the touch, that seemed to mean so much?"
@@DanyalElia 💖
Hummingbird?
@@sheercerebralpowerNo, it's homing bird
I’m loving all these John Lennon songs! Just brilliant!
Гениальная песня. The Beatles forever! ♥️
This version Is much clearer than the 1995 anthology Beatles version where Lennon singing voice is sound like a ghost
The problem with this version is that some lyrics are still missing, but the quality is better
Al rato con lo que están haciendo para el 2025 por el 30 aniversario de la antología pueden relanzar las antologías
Por eso no las incluyeron en los discos rojo y azul
Todo es negocio
Para que uno compré
La voz de Lennon se escuchará más limpia como en now AND then
Y no soy experto como otros que he leído comentarios
No es nuestro caso amigo
I love the original from the anthology, I also like it better than the later remix, which was structurally changed. What a beautiful song! And what a great feat to turn it into a studio version back then. The demo is nice too.
It’s the same vocal.
I think the different vocal sound on the studio version is because they tried to push the piano into the background.
This is brillant! I love it ❤
Que bonito. Cuando naces escuchando la música de The Beatles sabes que también morirás con ella. Con 13 años fue devastador ese 8 de Dic de 1980 creo que en ese momento te llevaste contigo millones de corazones y parte de la historia de la música y a nosotros nos dejaste maravillosas joyas musicales. Mi querido John tan único, tan genio. Una vida con The Beatles 💕💕💫💫En momentos de tristeza y en momentos de alegría siempre puedes confiar en The Beatles.
Verdade. John sabia das coisas. Até mais do que, em tese, deveria. Acabou perdendo a vida por isso. De resto concordo com tudo o que você colocou. Parabéns.
¡Qué hermoso lo que escribiste Marisa! Yo soy mayor que vos. Pero siento exactamente lo mismo. Vivir y morir con los Beatles. Soy músico formado: toco Bach y Brahms, enseño en conservatorios. Pero la música de los Beatles me acompaña todos los días.
Very nicely said. I agree wholeheartedly. John was a rare bird. No pun intended.
John Lennon, 'en mi corazon siempre'! 👍
que hermosa la versión original !
Gracias Beatles por ser la banda de sonido de nuestras existencias !!
アンソロジーバージョンも素晴らしいですが、このジョンの声は素晴らしい😊
obrigado por oferecer essa relíquia do grande John Lennon
John always among us and forever eternal!!!
John siempre entre nosotros y por siempre eterno !!!
I've always loved this song. When I was a teen in the mid 2000s, I discovered this song when watching VH1. I got hooked instantly. Didn't know that this was an unfinished Lennon's song & completed by the remaining Beatles.
The video is a work of art, my humble opinion
Simply amazing song!!
Grazie John per le tuoi canzoni, sicuramente continui a suonare e cantare li dove sei, grazie Beatles per la musica che mi ai fatto sentire e la sento ancora. E incredibile, ogni tanto scopro un tema nuovo tuo e dei miei Beatles
John Lennon como sempre está de parabéns o melhor compositor e cantor!
The Beatles... Nunca entenderé como puede haber tanta perfección en 4 sujetos.
Beautiful….. sentimental…. Nostalgic….ahhhhh
Lennon magic
Music by KR, thank you so, so much for putting this on UA-cam !! It is so much better than the one that was released .. I can't believe how much better ...
beautiful in its rawness and melancholy! a gem...
Something haunting and melancholy about this version.
Exactly, I think that was lost in the Beatles version
@@MusicbyKR I totally agree with you !!!
The reworked version they did in 95 and released as a single I've had as my ring tone for years and keep transferring it to every phone I've had over last few years
MUCHAS GRACIAS POR COMPARTIR ESTA JOYA MUSICAL. Emocionante hasta las lágrimas... Saludos desde Lima Perú
I'm speechless. Thank you KR.
I just cleaned up the audio and remixed it, John did the actual work.
@@MusicbyKR }{:)
Lo grandioso de los Beatles es que no sabés a quien ,como músico, admirar más...
Man was a genius,
This raw version gives a touch of very deep spiritual meaning to this song. There are not any version better than this.
John lennon wrote the most interesting and perfect middle eights of all the Beatles
Great song. I think it would be held in higher esteem if he’d released it when he was alive.
My friend said he recorded these demos in a minor key but wanted most of Double Fantasy to be Major so that's why he didn't develop them at the time... if he had lived he might have put them on his next album.
We'll never know.
Ao eterno, ilustre gênio da música 🎵🎸 mundial do século 20 , John Lennon. Eu cresci , ouvindo às suas canções tão icônicas , poética e atemporais! A sua voz tão lindo e melódico vem do outro mundo ! Você é o eterno Beatles, assim como os maravilhosos, Paul MacCartney, Ringo Starr e George Harrison. A eterna banda dos sonhos ! Para este canal maravilhoso. Muito obrigado por editar a esse arquivo histórico estraordinario , o demo de John Lennon, Free as a BIRD A canção é linda demais ! Eu não me canso de ouvi - lo , o som do piano 🎹 é demais ! Eu , como o grande fã brasileiro 😄🇧🇷 mando .lhe uma calorosa salvas de palmas . ✨💫John Lennon 1940 _ 1980 ✨💫🎵🎸🎹💯👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏
Krásný komentář, cítím to úplně stejně 🥹🥹👏👏 Johna také miluji,nejen jako zpěváka, ale také jako člověka,byl úžasný, dodnes se nemůžu smířit s tím, že umřel,byl to opravdu moc hodný a citlivý člověk, který to neměl v životě vůbec jednoduché 🥹😥 Jinak písnička je překrásná, jako všechny Johnovo písně,jeho hudbu naprosto miluji,jeho písničky a hlas mě vždy dostanou do úplně jiného světa 💓💓
@@janaparoubkova5895 👋😃 muito obrigado ! 💛💚💙🙏🙏 Um grande abraço desde o Brasil 🇧🇷
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Los demos de Jhon si ubieran salido a la luz como temas terminados estoy seguro que serían buenísimos los demos están geniales. Me encanta el trabajo que se hizo por parte de los Beatles restantes para 2 de las antologías los temas Free as a Bird y Real Love, su último tema con apoyo de la inteligencia artificial de Peter Jackson es muy fabuloso el resultado de Now And Then
Absolutely beautiful
Haunting and beautiful.
Nothing happens forever and ever like this
this demo is so incredibly emotional. wow
Hypnotic ❤
Such a genius 🎉
Thank you JL
Many thanks for sharing this pearl!
Maravilloso,gracias John, te extrañamos.
Uncompromisingly beautiful, those key changes, the wistful voice of John. Never to be matched.
Thank you very much for this videos 🎶
he's always with us I have all his demos cassettes RIP John and George
Everything sounds so great with john and his piano. Edited ones are missing something.
Merci pour ce merveilleux moment ❤
The slowing... The purchase of conscience... So unreal ... So John.
So beautiful!❤
This is so lovely.
Beautiful
Brilliant,a glimpse of genius at work.
なんでジョン・レノンはこんなにも素敵な曲を生み出せるのか
I have no idea
Played this at my Mom's funeral, walked over to the piano before Everyone arrived and this just came to me for some reason. If your happy or sad, its a perfect song for the mood, gives you hope to someday be "Home and dry"
Beautiful. Thanks for sharing.
So beautiful
This raw version Is beautyful; the version completed by the other three Is beauryful... but I can't help love the most the video. It's a piece of art. Love from Guadalajara, México.
John left behind some amazing songs, don't know how he came up with them. So glad they were all finally completed.
Lots and lots of talent to write that one!
Everyone here agrees with you
Magnífico
He was gone so suddenly. He is gone. But… he’s not. He is still with us, ever day of of our lives. Not a week goes by we don’t see his image, hear his music, or are touched by his existence. It would surely blow his mind and elicit that wry smile, if he knew what he’d become.