I wouldn't want to listen to this song ever again. There are many many other Monkees songs I love and I'm going to add a few to the list in the future but this song is part of me for 3 reasons.
It was the first single I ever bought. In Grade 6 I had some money to go and buy a single. So I rode up to Box Hill Shopping Centre and went to my Record Store to purchase a record even I'm too scared to mention here. (It was a novelty song). Anyway they didn't have it but they did have a Monkees single and I loved the Monkees. So I bought this. But when I played it on my brother Tony's record player it wasn't a very exciting moment.
So I kind of forgot about it until I was 16 when I was kind of going out with a girl called Gwenda. I say kind of because I thought we were and she didn't think we were. Anyway she gave me a letter one day and the lyrics to this song were written on it. I got the message!
A little bit later I started playing guitar and came across this song in a songbook and I saw that the chords were easy to play. So I also practised guitar to this song. When I formed The Fiction in 1977 and we were looking for covers to I thought of this song. I Wanna Be Free as a title fitted in with the current punk ethics. And it was dead easy to play. (Although I never played guitar in The Fiction). So we played it like we'd imagine The Saints doing it. We only played it once though. Then I forgot about it. Until now.
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