Question: What year was a song billed as the first new Beatles song in 25 years first recorded?
Context: Alan W. Pollack is a musicologist.  He is best known for having musically analysed every Beatles song released.  He started the task in 1989 and finished in 2000, with 187 original songs and 25 cover songs.  The analyses have come to be known as the "Notes on ..." series, as each is entitled "Notes on 'Love Me Do'", "Notes on 'Help! '" and so on.  The notes were released weekly, usually on Wednesdays, on the rec.music.beatles usenet group.  Pollack's individual song analyses and comments on unifying themes in the Beatles' work were later incorporated by musicologist Walter Everett in his two-volume study "The Beatles as Musicians".  The "Notes on …" series is also among the "Recommended Resources" in author and critic Kenneth Womack's 2014 book "The Beatles Encyclopedia". Phase 3 is the third studio album by the American punk rock band The Riverdales.  It was released in 2003 through 1-4-5 Records.  It was the first new Riverdales album in five years, and the first Riverdales album to feature drummer Dan Lumley.  It was re-released on October 7, 2008 by Asian Man Records, who had also reissued the band's first album "Riverdales" in 2006.  The album was completely re-mixed and re-mastered, including five previously unreleased songs and new artwork.  Four of the bonus tracks were totally new and one was a new arrangement and recording of "Mental Retard" (from the "Storm the Streets" album).  Although the reissue was advertised as having re-recorded vocals, Ben Weasel has stated that this is not correct.  The lyrics to the song "Last Stop Tokyo" are printed on the back of the CD insert and was the first time that the Riverdales released any lyrics to the public.  Although written by Ben Foster, the song "Wait It Out" was first recorded by The Lillingtons on their 2001 album "The Backchannel Broadcast".  Since the relationship between Asian Man and all Ben Weasel related music is now severed, the album may be re-issued yet again sometime in the future. Masterful Mystery Tour is the second album from Beatallica.  It contains 12 tracks, which are mashups (or Bashups) of songs by the Beatles and Metallica.  As with their first album "Sgt. Hetfield's Motorbreath Pub Band", this album contains re-recordings of songs from the band's EP releases "A Garage Dayz Nite" and "Beatallica", plus six new Beatles/Metallica mashup songs.  The album cover is a parody of The Beatles' "Magical Mystery Tour" and Metallica's "Master of Puppets". The 25th Golden Raspberry Awards were held on February 26, 2005 at the Ivar Theatre in Hollywood, California, to recognize the worst the film industry had to offer in 2004.  To celebrate the 25th anniversary of the Golden Raspberry Awards, four special categories—Worst Razzie Loser of Our First 25 Years, Worst "Comedy" of Our First 25 Years, Worst "Drama" of Our First 25 Years, and Worst "Musical" of Our First 25 Years—were created. 332P/Ikeya–Murakami (P/2010 V1) is a short-period comet with period of approximately 5.4 years first identified independently by the two Japanese amateur astronomers Kaoru Ikeya and Shigeki Murakami on November 3, 2010.  Ikeya identified the comet using a 25-centimeter (10-inch) reflector at 39×, while Murakami used a 46 cm (18-inch) reflector at 78×.  Photographic confirmation of the comet was obtained by Ernesto Guido and Giovanni Sostero using a Global-Rent-a-Scope (GRAS) telescope in New Mexico.  Both Ikeya and Murakami discovered the comet using manual observation through optical telescopes.  Such visual discoveries have become rare in recent years. This is the discography of Apple Records, a record label formed by the Beatles in 1968.  During its early years, the label enjoyed a fair degree of commercial success, most notably with Mary Hopkin and Badfinger, as well as discovering acts such as James Taylor and Billy Preston who would go on to greater success with other labels.  However, by the mid-1970s, Apple had become little more than an outlet for the Beatles' solo recordings (although, as the solo Beatles were actually still under contract to EMI, the Apple label was, in truth, only a cosmetic addition to their releases).  After EMI's contract with the Beatles ended in 1976, the Apple label was finally wound up.  The label was reactivated in the 1990s with many of the original Apple albums being reissued on compact disc, and the company now oversees new Beatles releases such as the "Anthology" and "1" albums as well as the 2009 Beatles remastering programme.  In 2010, Apple set about remastering and reissuing its back catalogue for a second time. "Oh Well" is a song first recorded by Fleetwood Mac in 1969, composed by vocalist and lead guitarist Peter Green.  It first appeared as a Fleetwood Mac single in various countries in 1969 and subsequently appeared on revised versions of that year's "Then Play On" album and the "Greatest Hits" album in 1971.  It later featured on the 1992 boxed set "25 Years – The Chain", and on the 2002 compilation album "The Best of Peter Green's Fleetwood Mac".  A live version of the song was included on the 1998 compilation "The Vaudeville Years". "Free as a Bird" is a song originally composed and recorded in 1977 as a home demo by John Lennon.  In 1995, a studio version of the recording, incorporating contributions from Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr, was released as a single by the Beatles.  It was released 25 years after the break-up of the band and 15 years after the death of Lennon. The Beatles' Story is the sixth album by the Beatles in the United States, issued on 23 November 1964 by Capitol Records in both mono and stereo formats (although the mono was merely a fold-down of the stereo mix).  It is a documentary double album featuring interviews, press conferences, snippets of original or orchestral versions of Beatles songs with voice-overs.  The easy listening excerpts were created, produced and arranged by Stu Phillips with the Hollyridge Strings originally recorded for the first Capitol Records' "Beatles Song Book". Anthology 1 is a compilation album by the Beatles, released on 20 November 1995 by Apple Records as part of "The Beatles Anthology" series.  It features rarities, outtakes and live performances from the period 1958–1964, including songs with original bass player Stuart Sutcliffe and drummer Pete Best.  It is the first in a trilogy of albums with "Anthology 2" and "Anthology 3", all of which tie in with the televised special "The Beatles Anthology".  It contains "Free as a Bird", billed as the first new Beatles song in 25 years.  The album topped the "Billboard" 200 album chart and was certified 8x Platinum by the RIAA.
Answer: 1977