free_as_a_bird raze thirty years after the fact, they finally found a way to beef up john's boombox-recorded voice so it's possible to believe he was in the studio with the rest of the band, and not a ghost they were trying to commune with while jeff lynne worked the ouija board. maybe i'm crazy, but i think something got lost along the way. fidelity isn't everything. i wasn't yet a teenager when the song first seeped through the speakers in my mother's car. i couldn't make out much of what that dead man was on about, but i thought i knew what he meant. he really did sound like he was singing from somewhere beyond the clouds. 261014 what's it to you? who go blather from