Free Now
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- Album This song officially appears on the Liverpool Sound Collage Official album.
Song facts
From BeatlesBlogger.com, April 28, 2017:
Alternate versions of some of the songs from the forthcoming 50th Anniversary Edition of The Beatles’ Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band are beginning to appear on the web.
There’s this one, a stripped-back example of the title track, ‘Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band [Take 9 and Speech]’.
It’s interesting on a whole range range of levels, not least because we now know exactly where Paul McCartney went for inspiration for his experimental album Liverpool Sound Collage, released back in the year 2000.
If you listen to the ‘Sgt. Pepper [Take 9]’ track at around 2’08” in, he’s singing the same words we hear on the track ‘Free Now’.
On the Liverpool Sound Collage album cover McCartney credits The Beatles (and collaborators the Super Furry Animals), but not exactly where the Beatle samples used across the album come from. Now we know the origins of at least one of them.
Officially appears on
Official album • Released in 2000
3:29 • Studio version
- Paul McCartney :
- Producer
- Youth :
- Recording engineer
- Paul Hicks :
- Recording engineer
- Lord Doufous :
- Recording engineer
Latest concerts where Free Now has been played
Paul McCartney has never played this song in concert.