Based 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.
You’ll find plenty of people on the Internet willing to say so. Terry Jacks’ hit is not a good song. The melody sucks, the lyrics are worse and the upbeat feel accompanied pushed on you by a narrator who is dying is annoying. It can be hard to listen to “Seasons in the ...
The 13thcentury song,Foweles in þe frith, is among the earliest that survive in the English language. The manuscript has two complete polyphonic voices but only one verse, and so the meaning of its nature imagery and lament for the “beste of bon and blod” has been much debated. This...