Question: What nationality is the rock group that wrote the song "Free as a Bird"?

Context articles: The Beatles' Christmas records
Vince Lovegrove
What About Love
Bird Noises
Machiavelli and the Four Seasons
Great Speckled Bird (band)
Kollaps Tradixionales
Mircea Baniciu
Baby, I Love Your Way/Freebird Medley
Christmas Time (Is Here Again)

The Beatles' Christmas records were spoken and musical messages from English rock group The Beatles that were posted out on flexi disc at Christmas time to members of their official fan-clubs in the United Kingdom and the United States.
 One such record was issued each year from 1963 to 1969 and an LP compilation of all seven in 1970.
Vincent James "Vince" Lovegrove (19 March 194724 March 2012) was an Australian journalist, music manager, television producer, AIDS awareness pioneer and musician.
 He was a member of 1960s rock 'n' roll band The Valentines, sharing vocals with Bon Scott whom he later introduced to heavy rock group AC/DC.
 As a journalist, he wrote for Australia's teen music newspaper "Go-Set" from 1971, and was based in London for "Immedia!"
 from 1994 for over eight years.
 As a manager, his former clients include pub rock singer Jimmy Barnes and rock group Divinyls.
"What About Love?"
 is a song originally recorded by Canadian rock group Toronto but is best known for the 1985 release by the rock group Heart.
 The song was Heart's "comeback" single.
 It was the first Heart track to reach the top 40 in three years, and their first top 10 hit in five.
 It was released as the first single from the band's self-titled 1985 album, "Heart", as well as their first hit single on their new record label, Capitol Records.
 Grace Slick and Mickey Thomas, co-lead vocalists of Starship at the time, provide additional background vocals on the song.
Bird Noises is the first extended play by Australian rock group, Midnight Oil, which was released on 24 November 1980 under the band's own independent label, Powderworks Records / Sprint Music.
 It was produced by Leszek Karski and manufactured and distributed by CBS/Columbia.
 "Bird Noises" reached the Top 30 on the Australian Kent Music Report Singles Chart.
 According to Australian musicologist, Ian McFarlane, the EP "continued the development heard on [their previous album], with 'No Time for Games' and 'I'm the Cure' being particularly impressive.
 [The EP] also boasted the anomalous, but delightful Shadows-like instrumental 'Wedding Cake Island'".
Machiavelli and the Four Seasons is a 1995 album by the Australian rock group TISM (This Is Serious Mum).
 It is TISM's most famous release and the one with which they received the most critical success and fame.
 The album was certified Gold by the ARIA Awards and won the ARIA Award for Best Independent Release.
 The award was accepted in person by Les Murray, the subject of the song "What Nationality is Les Murray?"'
, who read a seemingly insulting acceptance speech in his native Hungarian.
 Three of its songs reached Triple J's Hottest 100, two of them in the top 10.
 This was also TISM's highest charting album, reaching number 8 in the Aria Charts.
Great Speckled Bird was a country rock group formed in 1969 by the Canadian musical duo Ian & Sylvia.
 Ian Tyson sang, played guitar and composed.
 Sylvia Tyson sang, composed and occasionally played piano.
 The other founding members were Amos Garrett on guitar and occasional vocals, Ben Keith on steel guitar, Ken Kalmusky on bass and Ricky Marcus on drums.
 They were named after the song, "The Great Speckled Bird", as recorded by Roy Acuff(1938).
Kollaps Tradixionales is the sixth full-length album by the experimental rock group Thee Silver Mt. Zion under the name Thee Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra.
 It was released in February 2010 on Constellation Records.
 The songs "I Built Myself a Metal Bird", "I Fed My Metal Bird the Wings of Other Metal Birds" and "There Is a Light" were played on earlier tours.
Mircea Baniciu (] ; born 31 July 1949) is a Romanian musician, singer, and songwriter.
 Originally known as the lead singer of the Romanian rock group Transsylvania Phoenix, Baniciu quit the group when they illegally fled Romania in 1977, continuing his career as a successful solo singer throughout the 1980s before forming a folk supergroup in 1992 with fellow musicians Mircea Vintilă, Vlady Cnejevici and Florian Pittiș, with whom he successfully toured Romania in the 1990s.
 Following the Romanian Revolution, Baniciu re-joined Transsylvania Phoenix as their lead singer, but, due to frequent disagreements with band leader Nicu Covaci, has performed and appeared on the group's albums irregularly, before finally quitting Phoenix permanently in 2007.
 In 2014, with fellow Phoenix bandmates Josef Kappl and Ovidiu Lipan "Țăndărică", Baniciu formed Pasărea Rock (The Rock Bird), a folk rock supergroup.
"Baby, I Love Your Way/Freebird Medley (Free Baby)" is a song by the American dance-pop band Will to Power.
 The song combines elements of two previously recorded rock songs: "Baby, I Love Your Way", a #12 "Billboard" Hot 100 hit from 1976 by the British-born singer Peter Frampton; and American Southern rock band Lynyrd Skynyrd's song "Free Bird", which hit #19 on the Hot 100 chart in 1975.
 Will to Power's medley of these two songs had more of a synthesized dance beat (as opposed to the rock ballad-like nature of the two original songs).
 It spent one week at #1 on the Hot 100 chart dated December 3, 1988.
 It also peaked at #2 on the "Billboard" adult contemporary chart.
 Additionally, in the "Freebird" section, the line "and the bird you cannot change" in the original version was changed to "and this bird will never change".
"Christmas Time (Is Here Again)" (Lennon/McCartney/Harrison/Starkey) is a Christmas song recorded by the Beatles for their 1967 fan club Christmas record.
 After being slated for inclusion in the planned (but ultimately scrapped) "Sessions" compilation album in 1985, the song finally saw official re-release in 1995 on the "Free as a Bird" single (issued in conjunction with the "Anthology" series), for which it was edited from its original 6:17 to a shortened version of 3:03.
 The song opens with a light-hearted tune from all four of the Beatles and occasionally cuts to a tale of the Beatles arriving at the fictional BBC house.
 This part of the song was cut from the 1995 single version.
 The song then closes with a Christmas greeting from all four of the Beatles.
 At the end, "Auld Lang Syne" is played on the organ as Lennon reads one of his original nonsense free verse poems.