Paul McCartney is convinced that John Lennon haunted the recording of the 1995 Beatles single “Free As A Bird” – in the form of a white peacock. McCartney, Ringo Starr and George Harrison were posing for a photograph outside the studio where the track was recorded when the bird wandered in the shot at the last minute.
McCartney said,
“I said to the other guys, ‘That’s John!’ Spooky, eh? It was like John was hanging around. We felt that all the way through the recording.”
McCartney also believes John made his presence felt on the single. He said,
“We put one of those spoof backwards recordings on the end of the single for a laugh, to give all those Beatles nuts something to do. I think it was the line of a George Formby song. Then we were listening to the finished single in the studio one night, and it gets to the end, and it goes, ‘zzzwrk nggggwaaahhh jooohn lennnnnon qwwwrk.’ I swear to God. We were like, ‘It’s John. He likes it!”
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Is this for real? From what I know Paul has (or used to have) white peacocks in his family compound at Sussex. And wasn’t Free as a Bird recorded at Paul’s home studio?
Now that I had rewatched the Anthology Bonus DVD, I am convinced that these two photo shots were not taken during the recording of “Free As A Bird,” but rather, they were taken at Paul’s studio at his family compound at Sussex, during the recording of “Real Love” a year later.
George had short hair during the “Free As A Bird” recording sessions, and much longer hair a year later in Feb 1995, when they did “Real Love.”
And I am quite SURE that Paul had a couple of those rare white peacocks in his Sussex home’s garden by 1995. NOT to say that one of them couldn’t have been possessed by John’s spirit….