John Lennon - Free As A Bird (The Dakota Beatle Demos)

Pegboy Records 1001

1. Free As A Bird
2. Real Love
3. Now And Then
4. Grow Old With Me
5. Free As A Bird
6. Dear John
7. That's The Way The World Is
8. India
9. Mirror, Mirror (on the wall)
10. Gone From This Place
11. Across The River
12. Don't Be Crazy
13. Illusions
14. Baby Make Love To You
15. Life Begins At 40
16. She's A Friend Of Dorothy
17. You Saved My Soul
18. Sally And Billy
19. Whatever Happened to...
20. One Of The Boys
21. Help Me To Help Myself
22. Real Love

Total running time: 72:40 min.
Sound quality: excellent

Free As A Bird is an excellent CD containing a lot of John's last demos. Songs recorded at the Dakota, NYC. As we all know two of those demos were used by Paul, George and Ringo as a frame for two 'new' Beatles songs, hence the subtitle of this bootleg-CD. I doubt Yoko and Capitol/EMI could do a better job releasing these demos. The Pegboy (Vigotone) people used very good tape sources for this CD and documented all the tracks in a very nice way. The booklet is really informative and includes some good 'relevant' pictures.
A must have ! Unfortunately the CD is hard to find and if you come across a copy you'll be paying a lot for it. (I payed 60 Dutch guilders).

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