"Free as a Bird" is a single released in December 1995 by the Beatles. The song was originally written and recorded in 1977 as a home demo by John Lennon, the former Beatle. In 1995, 25 years after their break-up and 15 years after Lennon was murdered, his surviving bandmates Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr released a studio version incorporating the demo.