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"Free as a Bird" marked the first time a single containing new material had been released under the Beatles' name since "The Long and Winding Road" in the United States in 1970. [ 6 ] [ 7 ] The promotional video was broadcast during episode one of The Beatles Anthology that aired on ITV in the UK and ABC in the US.
Instead, the song was reportedly written about a car. [4] [5] In an interview with Howard Stern, lead singer David Lee Roth explained the meaning behind the song. Although the song features some suggestive lyrics, it is about a car that Roth saw race in Las Vegas; its name was "Panama Express", hence the title of the song. [6] [5]
2. "Come and Get It" by Badfinger. 1969 Written and produced by Paul McCartney, this song became a top 10 hit for Badfinger, a band signed to the Beatles’ Apple label.
"You Know My Name (Look Up the Number)" was the last Beatles song from the group's official canon to be included on an album, issued on an LP for the first time on Rarities (which had been included as a bonus disc in the British and American boxed set, The Beatles Collection in 1978, and released separately as an album in the United Kingdom in ...
After running through six songs in a one-hour rehearsal in EMI's Studio Two, [1] everyone felt satisfied with Nicol's drumming, so he left to pack his suitcase. [2] That evening, in a four-hour session in Studio Two, each of the three present Beatles recorded a demo of a newly written song.
John Lennon's late-'70s song 'Now and Then,' now featuring all four Beatles, serves as a fitting conclusion, conveying what the band both achieved and lost.
The song was written by Lennon as mocking what he saw as Rik's bravado and unenlightened attitude. [1] Lennon later told his version of the story in a Playboy interview, stating that: "'Bungalow Bill' was written about a guy in Maharishi's meditation camp who took a short break to go shoot a few poor tigers, and then came back to commune with God.
From the moment the Beatles announced their breakup on April 10, 1970, fans began hoping for a reunion of the Fab Four. Those hopes were crushed when John Lennon was murdered on Dec. 8, 1980 ...