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TRACK LISTING
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SIDE 1 | Free As A Bird (John Lennon/Paul McCartney/George Harrison/Ringo Starr) | |||
| SIDE 2 | Christmas Time (Is Here Again) (John Lennon/Paul McCartney/George Harrison/Ringo Starr) | ||||
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RELEASE DATE
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12th. December 1995 / First Press |
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Barcode and US catalog number "NR 7243 8 58497 7 0" were printed at the upper right corner of the back cover. |  |
Capitol logomark was printed at the bottom
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A side copyright info: (c) 1995 The Copyright in this sound
recording is owned by The John Lennon Estate, Paul
McCartney, George Harrison, and Ringo Starr under exclusive
license to EMI Records Ltd. Printed in U.S.A. |
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Catalog number "NR 7243 8 58497 7 0" and Capitol logomark were printed at the right side of the center hole. |
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| Apple custom
label. Solid center. |
A side originally
recorded circa 1977 in New York. Beatles overdubs recorded
February / March 1994 in England. B side music recorded 28 November, 1967 at EMI Studios, London. Greetings recorded 6 December, 1966 at EMI Studios, London. |
A side
copyright info: (c) 1995 The Copyright in this sound
recording is owned by The John Lennon Estate, Paul
McCartney, George Harrison, and Ringo Starr under exclusive
license to EMI Records Ltd |
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CATALOG NUMBER
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NR 7243 8 58497 7 0 |
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LABEL
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Apple custom label |
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MIX
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Stereo | ||||
| MATRIX No. | SIDE 1 | NR-58497-A-G1 1-1 "LITTLE LOGAN" (Hand
etching) MASTERED AT CAPITOL (Stamped) |
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| SIDE 2 | NR-58497-B-G1 "RDC III" · JASON (Hand
etched) MASTERED AT CAPITOL (Stamped) |
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VINYL COLOR
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BLACK | ||||
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RECORD COMPANY'S
NAME
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Apple Corps Ltd. / EMI Records
Ltd. / Manufactured by Capitol Records Inc., |
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CENTER
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Solid center | ||||
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CENTRAL REMARK
"SOLD IN U.K..." |
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PUBLISHER'S NAME
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SIDE 1
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Lenono Music Inc.
(Administered by Sony Songs Inc.) (BMI) |
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SIDE 2
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Northern Songs. All
Rights Controlled and Administered by EMI Blackwood Music
Inc., under licence from ATV Music (BMI) |
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PRODUCER
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SIDE 1: John Lennon,
Paul McCartney, George Harrison, Ringo Starr & Jeff
Lynne SIDE 2: George Martin |
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COVER DESIGN/
PHOTO/ NOTES
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Drawing by John Lennon Design/Art Direction Richard Ward/The Team Sleeve Note Mark Lewisohn |
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COMMENTS
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"Free as a Bird" is a single released in December 1995 by
English rock band the Beatles. The song was originally
written and recorded in 1977 as a home demo by John Lennon.
In 1995, 25 years after their break-up and 15 years after
Lennon's murder, his then surviving bandmates Paul
McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr released a studio
version incorporating the demo. The single was released as part of the promotion for The Beatles Anthology video documentary and the 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 three such songs (along with "Real Love" and, decades later, "Now and Then") for which McCartney, Harrison, and Starr contributed additional instrumentation, vocals, and arrangements. Jeff Lynne, who had worked with Harrison on Harrison's album Cloud Nine and as part of the Traveling Wilburys, co-produced. "Christmas Time (Is Here Again)" is a Christmas song by the English rock band the Beatles, originally recorded for their fifth fan club Christmas record, Christmas Time Is Here Again! (1967). One of the few Beatles songs credited to all four members of the band, it consists of a blues based backing track as well as double-tracked vocals sung by them, George Martin and Victor Spinetti. The lyrics are mostly made up of the song's title refrain, repeated across nine verses. Following its December 1967 release, "Christmas Time (Is Here Again)" remained officially unavailable for decades. A planned release in 1984 faltered after the abandonment of the Beatles' then-upcoming album Sessions. Apple released a shortened version of the song in December 1995 as the B-side to the song "Free as a Bird". The 1967 version was re-issued on The Christmas Records, a 2017 limited-edition box set of the band's original Christmas records. (from Wikipedia) A side copyright info: (c) 1995 The Copyright in this sound recording is owned by The John Lennon Estate, Paul McCartney, George Harrison, and Ringo Starr under exclusive license to EMI Records Ltd. Manufactured by Capitol Records Inc., Printed in U.S.A. Runout data is etched, except MASTERED AT CAPITOL, which is stamped |
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