They were at home, said their press officer Derek Taylor, “But they send their love.” In the event presenter Annie Nightingale judged it merely “alright”.Ī grand press conference was arranged for the Savoy with 350 journalists attending. In the run-up to the song’s first play on Radio 1 the record company issued a “timetable of events” to the press, tracking every minute from the moment copies of the Anthology 1 CD left the pressing plant at Uden in the Netherlands. Parlophone, the Beatles label, did their best to turn the release into an event. “Free as a Bird” was the first track on Anthology 1, released five days before Queen’s post-Freddie Mercury release Made in Heaven. So I don’t know, I’m not fussy about it but it didn't appeal to me very much.” “In the same way that I think it’s OK to find an old record of Nat King Cole’s and bring it back to life and issue it, but to have him singing with his daughter is another thing. “I’ve got nothing wrong with dead John but the idea of having dead John with live Paul and Ringo and George to form a group, it didn’t appeal to me too much. “I kind of told them I wasn’t too happy with putting them together with the dead John,” he told Rock Cellar magazine in 2013.
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