The Beatles - Free As A Bird (a clearer Lennon version)

I would never want to replace the original as they clearly made a feature of the technical limitations of the time and it’s wonderful in itself. I’ve tried to keep this version fairly faithful to the 1995 release, with the exception of John Lennon’s vocal which was extracted from the best copy of his 1977 demo I could find using : Vocal Remover & Instrumental AI Splitter and mixed back in. I also put his voice higher in the mix as it was buried in the original, probably by necessity. Think of this as merely an alternate version where John is front and centre. This is the best I could achieve with the resources at my disposal (and without going insane through endless tweaking). I hope you enjoy! The original can be found here for comparison: For those asking, I’d love to provide a download link but the video would almost certainly be taken down. Though I would never encourage it, there are easy ways to download most Youtube videos and/or their audio. Just Ask Jeeves. ℗ 2015 The copyright in this audio recording is owned by the Estate of John Lennon, Paul McCartney, G. H. Estate Limited and Ringo Starr under exclusive licence to Calderstone Productions Limited (a division of Universal Music Group) and the copyright in this visual recording is owned by Apple Corps Limited under exclusive to Calderstone Productions Limited) No infringement intended. Please support artists by buying their music.
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