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“Free as a Bird” is a song performed by The Beatles. The single was released on 4 December 1995, as part of the promotion for the release of The Beatles Anthology video documentary and the band’s Anthology 1 compilation album. The song had been written and recorded as a demo by John Lennon in 1977. Paul McCartney asked Lennon’s widow Yoko Ono for any unreleased material by Lennon, and “Free as a Bird” was chosen as being the song in which all three remaining Beatles could be involved, as they could finish the arrangement and write extra lyrics. Jeff Lynne of Electric Light Orchestra was asked to co-produce the record as he had worked with George Harrison on Harrison’s album Cloud Nine and as part of The Traveling Wilburys. The music video for “Free as a Bird” was... Read on...