The Beatles anthology was a massive thing, they made 8 eps charting the beatles from birth untill the end of the beatles (controversial in its self to some 1969 to others 1970 when final album was released)
Free as a bird was a solo song recorded by John Lennon in the 1970's however the recording was just john a piano and a tape recorder, he never recorded it professionaly. Yoko Ono gave the recording to Paul Mccartney and he and the other remainging beatles at that time (Ringo and George) set about with there producer George Martin to create the first beatles song for years,
what free as a bird did was very clever, it was advertising for the anthology but also it reminded people of of the beatles, Dawson argued that what it did was show people nostalia and contrast in its recapturalisation of the beatles career.
"The video conveys a strong sense of contrast between the present and the past. the present is the bird and Mccartneys near by voice. the past is what the bird sees Lennon's distant voice. Meadiating the two tenses is much of the liverpool footage from the TV series (Beatles Anthology) it appears that all the footage of the beatles is old, they reapear throught the video moving from location to location reminding us that they may still be wizzards and the dream may not be over" (burns. 2000: P181: as cited by Bennett, A. 2005, P155)
on of the best things about the video is the references to beatles songs, there is a version on youtube which has them all in it.
Reference: Bennett, Andy (2005). Cultures of Popular Music. Issues in Culture and Media Studies. 3rd ed. Berkshire: Open University Press. Available online: http://www.myilibrary.com/Browse/open.asp?ID=113164&loc=22
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