The other songs were " Grow Old With Me", " Real Love", and " Now and Then".
Lennon introduced the song on the cassette by imitating a New York accent and saying, "Free-as a boid" (bird). "Free as a Bird" was recorded by Lennon in 1977, in his and Ono's Dakota building apartment in New York City, but was not complete. McCartney then asked Ono if she had any unreleased recordings by Lennon, so she sent him cassette tapes of four songs. go out as the Beatles", and that the "only other person that could be in it was John." According to Harrison, they had always agreed that if one of them was not in the band, the others would never replace them and ". McCartney, Harrison and Starr originally intended to record some incidental background music, as a trio, for the Anthology project, but later realised, according to Starr, that they wanted to record "new music". The Dakota building, where Lennon lived and composed, and where he recorded a demo of the song on cassette Shot from the point of view of a bird in flight, it includes allusions to numerous Beatles songs. The music video was produced by Vincent Joliet and directed by Joe Pytka. It won the 1997 Grammy Award for Best Pop Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal and was the Beatles' 34th top-ten single in the United States, meaning they had at least one top-forty hit in four different decades. It also became a top-ten hit in at least 10 other countries, including Australia, Canada, Hungary and Sweden. Jeff Lynne, who had worked with Harrison on Harrison's album Cloud Nine and as part of the Traveling Wilburys, co-produced. "Free as a Bird" was one of two such songs (along with " Real Love") for which McCartney, Harrison, and Starr contributed additional instrumentation, vocals, and arrangements. 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. The single was released as part of the promotion for The Beatles Anthology video documentary and the Anthology 1 compilation album. In 1995, 25 years after their break-up and 15 years after Lennon's death, his then surviving bandmates Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr released a studio version incorporating the demo. The song was originally written and recorded in 1977 as a home demo by John Lennon.
" Free as a Bird" is a single released in December 1995 by the Beatles.