![]() ![]() I’m not sure i like Lynne’s treatment of the drums, or his multi acoustic guitars (John might have gone against those), but given that it wasn’t 1969 any more, some differences in sound & recording would have inevitably been there if the Beatles had recorded together again. To me it’s an update on their sound, with Lynne’s stamp on it. Why would you do that if you’re producing a Beatles record? You’d want it to be pure as possible). (I read somewhere that producer Jeff Lynne asked for his vocals to be added, but only in the background of the mix at a certain point, i don’t know why. So it does have that “Beatle-y” thing of some interesting chord progressions (which apparently Paul & George added to John’s slightly simpler ones), along with their great harmonies. & of course because they were all 20-odd years older at the time they did this (1994) & there was better technology, there was more musical ability & more possibilities re arrangements & treatments. Meaning that they couldn’t really go back to 1969, but they did their best to accompany their old mate & serve him well. Ringo said “It sounds like us, but it sounds like us now”. This idea was discarded in favour of new songs, but agreed that they could only reunite musically as The Beatles if Lennon was on the recording. In subsequent years the Anthology project slowly gathered pace, and by the early 1990s Paul McCartney, George Harrison, and Ringo Starr were considering recording some incidental music as a trio. Never completed in the studio, it was one of a number of songs he taped on cassette during his ‘househusband’ period between 19. The song was originally a simple piano demo recorded by Lennon at his home in the Dakota building, New York City. They wanted me to come on for a tribute tour.John Lennon: vocals, piano Paul McCartney: vocals, bass, acoustic guitar, piano, keyboards George Harrison: vocals, electric slide guitar, acoustic guitar, ukulele Ringo Starr: vocals, drums Jeff Lynne: harmony vocals, guitarīased on a 1977 demo recorded by John Lennon in New York, ‘Free As A Bird’ was completed by the other three Beatles 17 years later and released as the lead single from the Anthology project. I walked into a room, and here are these guys who survived the crash with my brother. Ten years after the crash, I was called into a meeting. Lynyrd Skynyrd was going to go on with my brother forever. Johnny Van Zant: I had never wanted to be in the band. In 1987, Rossington and other pre-crash members organized a reunion tour and approached Johnny Van Zant, a solo artist at the time, about joining as lead vocalist. Rossington also survived the crash and today is the band’s sole living original member still performing. ![]() ![]() Collins survived the crash with serious injuries. ![]() On October 20, 1977, as the band was flying between shows in South Carolina and Louisiana, the charter plane ran out of fuel and crashed in a Mississippi forest, killing six passengers, including Van Zant. Lynyrd Skynyrd in 1977, shortly before the plane crash that killed six passengers, including Ronnie Van Zant. “Bye bye, baby, it’s been a sweet love,” doesn’t mean a final goodbye to me. Rickey Medlocke: The way Ronnie wrote lyrics, you got out of it the meaning in your own way. It wasn’t so heavy or nothing to us at first. We were playing everywhere we could play. This time Ronnie said, “Play that again.” Allen played the chords, then I’d play them, and Ronnie just sat there and wrote the lyrics, a love song. He’d lie there and hear mistakes and say, “Let’s fix that.” When one of us would get a good idea going, he’d say, “Play it, play.”Īllen had these chords, and he’d play them over and over, but at first Ronnie thought there were too many chord changes to write lyrics to. Ronnie used to always lie on the couch after two or three hours of rehearsing. Gary Rossington: One rehearsal day, Allen started playing the chords to “Free Bird” at the house where we used to hang out after school and after we quit school. ![]()
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