- UK release date:
- Dec 04, 1995
- US release date:
- Dec 12, 1995
Related sessions
This album has been recorded during the following studio sessions
"Please Please Me" album session #1
Feb 11, 1963
"I Want To Hold Your Hand / This Boy" session #1
Oct 17, 1963
Feb 11, 1994 and periodically till end of Feb
Circa 1995
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Side 1
1.
Written by Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr, John Lennon, George Harrison
4:26 • Studio version • A
- Paul McCartney :
- Acoustic guitar, Bass, Keyboards, Piano, Producer, Vocals
- Ringo Starr :
- Drums, Producer, Vocals
- John Lennon :
- Piano, Producer, Vocals
- Jeff Lynne :
- Guitar, Harmony vocals, Producer
- George Harrison :
- Acoustic guitar, Electric slide guitar, Producer, Ukulele, Vocals
- Recording :
- Circa 1977
- Studio :
- New York
- Session Recording:
- February / March 1994
- Studio :
- Hog Hill Studio, Rye, UK
2.
2:52 • Alternate take • C • Take 9. The 1963 master of "I Saw Her Standing There" was Take 1, with Paul's energetic "1-2-3-4" count-in from Take 9 tacked on the front. Issued here for the first time is the full Take 9.
- Session Recording:
- Feb 11, 1963
- Studio :
- EMI Studios, Studio Two, Abbey Road
3.
3:18 • Studio version • C • Takes 12 and 13. An eavesdrop into the recording session for This Boy featuring the incomplete takes 12 and 13.
- Session Recording:
- Oct 17, 1963
- Studio :
- EMI Studios, Studio Two, Abbey Road
4.
Christmas Time (Is Here Again)
Written by Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr, John Lennon, George Harrison
3:03 • Studio version • B • Stereo • From 1963 to 1969 the Beatles gave members of their official fan club a special gift at Christmas: a record unavailable elsewhere. The 1967 disc was titled Christmas Time (Is Here Again) and extracts from a song of that name were scattered among the sketches. Issued here for the first time is an uninterrupted recording of the number. Superimposed near the end are some spoken-word seasonal greetings, taped in 1966, followed by a John Lennon pastiche.
- Paul McCartney :
- Piano, Vocals
- Ringo Starr :
- Drums, Vocals
- John Lennon :
- Timpani, Vocals
- George Harrison :
- Acoustic guitar, Vocals
- George Martin :
- Producer, Vocals
- Geoff Emerick :
- Recording engineer, Remix engineer
- Mal Evans :
- Spoken words
- Victor Spinetti :
- Vocals
- Richard Lush :
- Second engineer
- Session Recording:
- Nov 28, 1967
- Studio :
- EMI Studios, Studio Three, Abbey Road
- Session Mixing:
- Circa 1995
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From Wikipedia:
“Free as a Bird” was premiered on BBC Radio 1 in the early hours of 20 November 1995. It was released as a single in the UK on 4 December 1995, two weeks after its appearance on the Anthology 1 album. The single sold 120,000 copies in its first week, entering the UK Singles Chart at No. 2. It remained on the chart for eight weeks. In the US, the song reached No. 6 on the Billboard Hot 100, becoming The Beatles’ 34th Top 10 single in America. It was the group’s first Top 10 song in the U.S. in nineteen and a half years, the longest span for the group between Top 10 hits since first charting in America in 1964.
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