Think about it this way, while ‘Let It Be’ was released in 1970 it was actually recorded before ‘Abbey Road’. So chronologically Abbey Road is actually the last Beatles album, and they ended it with ‘The End’. I think there’s a huge amount of optimism within that album and the overall chronological ending of their catalogue that can ease that discomfort. Hope this helps you :)))
This song makes me cry because it’s so beautiful and because it marked the end of the Beatles as a group. They brought so much joy to so many people, it was hard to let go of that. Paul’s voice is perfect for this song (and so many others). Thank you for choosing this and for your thoughtful comments. We all lost our way for a bit when they went their separate ways. 🌺✌️
Notice the last words Paul sang in the song "Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah" circling back to the old days of She Loves You. They went full circle in their Long and winding road.
3:45 You hear John Lennon with "Dont keep me Waiting", was perfect to the core. Those haunting words as he would be the first Beatle to die in such horrible way... RIP John. Beatles... the best band ever.
Just wanted to say how much I enjoy your reactions, especially to the Beatles. I remember seeing them on the Ed Sullivan show on February 9th 1964 and it's nice to see every generation discovering their music. Even being the old fart that I am , you have a nice thing going.keep up your reactions and keep that pretty smile of yours always.peace and luv. Chuck 😊
Wish we had those days back again. It was the innocent years I think to our generation. Unfortunately the decades went by to what we have now. Glad I had those memories to hold onto.
"The Long & Winding Road" is from The Beatles' last album "Let It Be" in 1970. It was written by Paul McCartney & was released a month after the Beatles' break-up. It became the group's 20th & last number one hit.
It wasn’t technically their last album; it was the last album they released. But the last album they recorded was Abbey Road, which in my opinion is far superior to Let It Be.
@trichert8285 You're being pedantic. It WAS their last album regardless of when it was recorded. Beatles fans will know Abbey Road was recorded last,but it still came out before Let It Be. Besides, Let It Be contains their last actual recording anyway in I Me Mine,so it is rightfully their last album.
@@normandavidtidiman9918 And you're being BLEEP. Time of recording is the primary factor in determining their true "last album". The fact that it contains a BIT of material tacked on after _Abbey Road_ was recorded is trivail. The great bulk of _Let It Be_ was recorded before _Abbey Road._ THAT is what matters. But I won't deny that it was last to come out. On that point, we may call it their "last Album", but only superficially. In all of the most meaningful aspects, _Abbey Road_ was their last.
@@alanr4447a God,you’re a massive fucking prick! So in every aspect you totally agree with me,yet you criticise me! Lol 😂 Get back (see what I did there) to whatever hole you crawled out of and keep out of a conversation you weren’t invited to 🖕🏻
This can be seen in so many different ways... In a family way when you get disowned, in a friend way when you're no longer speaking to each other, when you're broken up with somebody, when you've lost somebody AND they're MIA for years... All you have is the memories of where you were, when you lose a family member, when you lose somebody you were in love with. That door IS metaphorical in the a lot of ways... It covers a lot of lack of passage back in time AND the separation that's felt... BUT the duality IS also the connection between people because that's always their pivot point. It may or may not be written about an actual PHYSICAL door... It can be written about opening the door to your heart and letting the backend there's a lot of ways people look at this song depending on what relationship they're talking about. It's not always a romantic one. This is a hugely emotional ride for me because I relate to it through a lot of different situations because I've been around for its entirety. So it's taken on a newer nuanced tone as time went on when it came to different things in my life. The more things happened, then I'd hear this and realize this song can relate to it in a deep level cuz it gives comfort or makes me feel an emotional didn't have before I had the new experience. My advice to everyone is listen to it again and then wait a year and listen to it again. XOXO 💜 #NYGenXBIKERLady
This was from the Let It Be album, which was their last. This song is a foretaste of things to come from Paul McCartney. He could play many instruments and went on to write some symphonic pieces. Overall the Beatles were wildly talented.
After Paul's wife Linda died from breast cancer, they held a concert in her honor and George Michael sang this song. It is a beautiful song to begin with but George just took it to a new level. Even Paul said that George sang it better than he did. It is a live performance obviously and it is on TH-cam. You should check it out if you can.
Yep, you’re right. It was The Beatles who got lost on the long and winding road. Paul desperately wanted to keep them together. It always makes me sad. 💙
This is one of those rare songs made me cry the first time I heard it with friends in the movie 'Let It Be'~because we understood ~ it was them saying good bye to us their fans ~ even now half a century later it makes me sad remembering
One of my favourites, that I'm currently putting the finishing touches to on my guitar 😢. I 😮smiled at your reaction, when you were taken aback at PMC going straight in. He did it earlier on All My Loving, and if I'm not wrong, Can't buy me love.. the Beatles were always lokking for something different. This song is definitely overloaded with mad Phil Spector's Wall of Sound, but that doesn't detract from the beauty of the words, or the gently insistent soft drumming, with its tripping rhythm throughout. High hats off to Ringo. And second time through the bridge (Many times I've been alone .. ). No words, just the orchestra buildng to the crescendo .. Then Still they lead me back .. Absolutely stunning. I'd take issue, though, with the idea that there are no bad Beatles songs. Love me do, Misery, Baby's in black, She ain't heavy .. these are all truly dreadful. But I've been to see tribute bands, who have done a 2-hour concert, and I've still walked away, thinking, "Where was Michelle .. and Fool on the hill .. and Penny Lane .. and We can work it out ..?" A quality band, overall, with a deep and varied catalogue.
Jayy you are the only reactor that gets the Beatles to stay on their channel. I'm glad for you. I was wondering how if it's not personal. I'm not a reactor.
It is a road of pain for sure. Begging someone to come back who never will. It makes me think about my dad. I am still devastated even three years later. This song is a mythological masterpiece. And yes, its a song about loss and being lost. It hits me every time.
Long time listener first time caller lol. Most diverse band that ever was in my opinion. Such a beautiful melody on this one. Oddly enough not even my favorite song. I guess that means to me that there arent many bad beatle songs if any!
Jayy, "The Long and Winding Road" always makes me cry....I did so just watching you listening to it. It has very deep personal meaning to me, especially now in this time of my life, I really choke up even more than I did when I was still young (I even cried listening to it then), but now it has even more personal to me. I just LOVE it, the way it is.
You could just imagine John Lennon crying in the theatre looking at his friend Paul, as was witnessed by Jann Wenner in 1971. I will never believe Paul when he said it wasn’t about the band.
This was really the Beatles' swan song....the end of the roller coaster ride...the amusement parking was closing for good. The Let it Be Tapes sat around for months, recorded in January 1969. they went on to record Abbey Road, technically their last album recorded, but Let It Be was released the following year, 1970. John Lennon gave the tapes to producer Phil Spector, who at the time was sort of washed up, and Spector created the wall of sound production he was known for on Let It Be, I Me Mine, Across the universe and Long and Winding Road. He used orchestras and choirs. McCartney hated what he did, saying it was over produced and NOT what he intended, and resented Lennon just giving away the tapes to anyone without his consent on his songs. He especially hated the production of The Long and Winding Road. You can here the Let It Be album without all the orchestra and choirs tuff on an album released some time ago called Let It Be Naked. What puzzled me is in 1976 and moving forward, Paul would sing this in Wings and his other solo bands using a brass section, and even an orchestra. on, yes, The Long and Winding Road...why? If he hated it so much, why did he do that? Duh...
Maybe because that is what his audience is used to and he changed it because of that - McCartney has said that he was very uncomfortable performing Beatles songs within his set it took awhile before he started using them more and as he said 'If I am paying to see someone in concert I want them to sing all the songs I liked them for'. Just a guess though.
Thanks for this great Beatles song. Please go right back to the start for the song that created Beatlemania - SHE LOVES YOU - you will love it. So will your viewers. Manchester version 1963 Live.
FYI the orchestra was added without McCartney knowing about it. He was furious, but since it was at a period when they were nearing a breakup and the fact the album release was delayed, he left it as was. There is a more recent release of the whole album called Let It Be Naked. and a 50th anniversary reissue with all the versions.
Let it Be was recorded prior to Abbey Road but released after due to problems with the film, Let it Be. Paul hated that Phil Specter added female voices and orchestration to this song. That is why years later they released Let It Be Naked. This song, for me, is about remembering where we came from.
I heard McCartney had heard Bridge Over Trubled Water and wanted to top it. A common response back in the day....Pet Sounds was a response to St Peppers. Great music all around!
I'd enjoy a reaction on a whole album... Probably Let It be itself because ypu can find songs like Across the Universe or One after 909 and Two Of Us...
Paul hated the shmaltzy string and choir arrangement soldered onto the basic recording by producer Phil Spector that a couple of decades ago he authorized a stripped down remix of it (along with other tracks on the album) and released it on the 'Let It Be - Naked' album. Give that a listen for a comparison.
@Joanne O Beirne. I am glad someone besides me, LOVES this version, even though Paul didn't. I think the orchestra and choir just add more melancholy to the song, and it ALWAYS brings me to tears, yet it doesn't if I listen to the "naked" version of it, the way Paul intended.
@@patticrichton1135yeah, this is by far my favorite version as well. I know Spector is a HORRIBLE human being, but in the studio, he was a genius, and he knew what he was doing. I can’t imagine this song without everything he added, and the “Let It Be Naked” version is definitely not as emotional to me.
This song was from their last album and then they broke up. It wasn't the last album they made but was released last. It's kind of a goodbye to the Beatles and the 60s. An amazing coincidence and sad. You are very perceptive to pick up on the deeper meaning of the song.
McCartney hated the orchestral arrangements added by the bad guy Phil Spector against his decisions. On TH-cam there is also the original "dry" version.
I don't think it's any worse than George Martin's arrangement for Goodnight. According to Wikipedia, the orchestra was scored and conducted by Richard Hewson, rather than Spector - though he probably told Hewson what he wanted. Maybe I'm just used to it, but no other version seems quite as good - heavenly harps and all!
For me, I LOVE this version of it, much better than the "naked" version. And I LOVE Paul and I know he hated what Spector did with the orchestra and choir, but again, I think it's BEAUTIFUL.
Its a melancholy tune, especially as it was the last track the Beatles would release (at least until the surviving members produced "Free As A Bird" using an old Lennon demo in the 90's). Paul's original arrangement included only the four Beatles; producer Phil Spector would add the orchestra and choir before the song was released, upsetting McCartney. To this day when Paul performs this song live, its without the extra stuff.
Yes, they were geniuses. In terms of just pure intelligence, McCartney was in the top 10percent of the top 1 percent, and Lennon was in the top 1 percent of the top 1 percent. There is no such thing as a great musician who is not very intelligent.
This song always makes me sad, it ended up being the end of the long and winding road for the Beatles. I was devastated when they broke up...
Think about it this way, while ‘Let It Be’ was released in 1970 it was actually recorded before ‘Abbey Road’. So chronologically Abbey Road is actually the last Beatles album, and they ended it with ‘The End’.
I think there’s a huge amount of optimism within that album and the overall chronological ending of their catalogue that can ease that discomfort.
Hope this helps you :)))
This song makes me cry because it’s so beautiful and because it marked the end of the Beatles as a group. They brought so much joy to so many people, it was hard to let go of that. Paul’s voice is perfect for this song (and so many others). Thank you for choosing this and for your thoughtful comments. We all lost our way for a bit when they went their separate ways. 🌺✌️
i agree-this album was generally sad because everyone knew it was the end of the Beatles-
Notice the last words Paul sang in the song "Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah" circling back to the old days of She Loves You. They went full circle in their Long and winding road.
I sounded liked he was fighting the tears.
They'll never be another Beatles and you are right,every song you reacted to by them you nailed them.
their 20th and last number 1 song ❤
BEATLES songs will be played 100 years from now. Just like Beethoven and Bach are being played almost 200 years later.
Damn straight.
Oh Yea songs like Obla Di and Lucy in the sky with diamonds are gonna be even more priceless.
3:45 You hear John Lennon with "Dont keep me Waiting", was perfect to the core.
Those haunting words as he would be the first Beatle to die in such horrible way... RIP John.
Beatles... the best band ever.
Just wanted to say how much I enjoy your reactions, especially to the Beatles. I remember seeing them on the Ed Sullivan show on February 9th 1964 and it's nice to see every generation discovering their music. Even being the old fart that I am , you have a nice thing going.keep up your reactions and keep that pretty smile of yours always.peace and luv.
Chuck 😊
I hear you brother. That night changed my life. Great to see the youngsters feeling it.
I remember seeing The Beatles on Ed Sullivan when I was a little girl, my mom screaming "PAUL!!" at the TV screen! LOL!
@@subwaygoddess1 My husband said his mom remarked how cute they were and he asked if he could grow his hair longer, not on your life pal!! LOL!
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Wish we had those days back again. It was the innocent years I think to our generation. Unfortunately the decades went by to what we have now. Glad I had those memories to hold onto.
The lasting beauty of this song is found in the orchestrations. The strings, horns, and placed a just the right moments. Beautiful. A masterpiece.
One of my all time favorite songs by The Beatles.....this was like there swan song 🎵.
The Great thing
with Beatles, they never repeted them selfs and that makes them so GREAT!
The perfect song for their last #1.
It's a beautiful song about love and lost.
This song makes me cry so powerful, so good
The emotion in Paul's voice brings tears to my eyes...
"The Long & Winding Road" is from The Beatles' last album "Let It Be" in 1970. It was written by Paul McCartney & was released a month after the Beatles' break-up. It became the group's 20th & last number one hit.
It wasn’t technically their last album; it was the last album they released. But the last album they recorded was Abbey Road, which in my opinion is far superior to Let It Be.
@trichert8285 You're being pedantic. It WAS their last album regardless of when it was recorded. Beatles fans will know Abbey Road was recorded last,but it still came out before Let It Be. Besides, Let It Be contains their last actual recording anyway in I Me Mine,so it is rightfully their last album.
Only in the US. In the UK, it wasn't a single.
@@normandavidtidiman9918 And you're being BLEEP. Time of recording is the primary factor in determining their true "last album". The fact that it contains a BIT of material tacked on after _Abbey Road_ was recorded is trivail. The great bulk of _Let It Be_ was recorded before _Abbey Road._ THAT is what matters. But I won't deny that it was last to come out. On that point, we may call it their "last Album", but only superficially. In all of the most meaningful aspects, _Abbey Road_ was their last.
@@alanr4447a God,you’re a massive fucking prick! So in every aspect you totally agree with me,yet you criticise me! Lol 😂 Get back (see what I did there) to whatever hole you crawled out of and keep out of a conversation you weren’t invited to 🖕🏻
A beautiful song, Jayy keep the Beatles music coming, thanks
A beautiful song by the Beatles and sometimes ( just sometimes ) it brings tears to my Eyes.
This can be seen in so many different ways... In a family way when you get disowned, in a friend way when you're no longer speaking to each other, when you're broken up with somebody, when you've lost somebody AND they're MIA for years... All you have is the memories of where you were, when you lose a family member, when you lose somebody you were in love with. That door IS metaphorical in the a lot of ways... It covers a lot of lack of passage back in time AND the separation that's felt... BUT the duality IS also the connection between people because that's always their pivot point. It may or may not be written about an actual PHYSICAL door... It can be written about opening the door to your heart and letting the backend there's a lot of ways people look at this song depending on what relationship they're talking about. It's not always a romantic one. This is a hugely emotional ride for me because I relate to it through a lot of different situations because I've been around for its entirety. So it's taken on a newer nuanced tone as time went on when it came to different things in my life. The more things happened, then I'd hear this and realize this song can relate to it in a deep level cuz it gives comfort or makes me feel an emotional didn't have before I had the new experience. My advice to everyone is listen to it again and then wait a year and listen to it again. XOXO 💜 #NYGenXBIKERLady
@JaYY- Thanks for reacting to this one. The Long And Winding Road is one of my fav Beatle songs and of course it was written and sung by Paul.
And that was all folks! The last song from the greatest band the world will ever know!
This was from the Let It Be album, which was their last. This song is a foretaste of things to come from Paul McCartney. He could play many instruments and went on to write some symphonic pieces. Overall the Beatles were wildly talented.
In my opinion this is there best song, and one of the greatest songs of all time.
Thank you so much for bring Beatles, my favorite of all time
this song gets me every time
After Paul's wife Linda died from breast cancer, they held a concert in her honor and George Michael sang this song. It is a beautiful song to begin with but George just took it to a new level. Even Paul said that George sang it better than he did. It is a live performance obviously and it is on TH-cam. You should check it out if you can.
Yea he did a great version.
He was so great. He always was. Just a unbelievable performer
You’re right- George Michael only person besides Paul who could touch this. And he loved Linda too
George was a terrific singer
Wow you know George was good, if Paul. felt his version was better.
Yep, you’re right. It was The Beatles who got lost on the long and winding road. Paul desperately wanted to keep them together. It always makes me sad. 💙
This is one of those rare songs made me cry the first time I heard it with friends in the movie 'Let It Be'~because we understood ~ it was them saying good bye to us their fans ~ even now half a century
later it makes me sad remembering
One of my favourites, that I'm currently putting the finishing touches to on my guitar 😢. I 😮smiled at your reaction, when you were taken aback at PMC going straight in. He did it earlier on All My Loving, and if I'm not wrong, Can't buy me love.. the Beatles were always lokking for something different.
This song is definitely overloaded with mad Phil Spector's Wall of Sound, but that doesn't detract from the beauty of the words, or the gently insistent soft drumming, with its tripping rhythm throughout. High hats off to Ringo.
And second time through the bridge (Many times I've been alone .. ). No words, just the orchestra buildng to the crescendo .. Then Still they lead me back .. Absolutely stunning.
I'd take issue, though, with the idea that there are no bad Beatles songs. Love me do, Misery, Baby's in black, She ain't heavy .. these are all truly dreadful. But I've been to see tribute bands, who have done a 2-hour concert, and I've still walked away, thinking, "Where was Michelle .. and Fool on the hill .. and Penny Lane .. and We can work it out ..?" A quality band, overall, with a deep and varied catalogue.
My favorite Beatles “goodbye” song.
Love so much this beautiful song!!! 🥰🥰🥰🙏
The most beautiful song of history
These are not plain lyrics. This is poetry at a high level!
A Classic!
Beautiful and heartfelt reaction JAYY. I loved it, RNB
Jayy you are the only reactor that gets the Beatles to stay on their channel. I'm glad for you. I was wondering how if it's not personal. I'm not a reactor.
I always cry all the time when I hear that song.
une oeuvre c'est géant , les arrangements fabuleux, ok PHIL SPECTOR !....
Always loved this song. Thanks.
I love you and your feelings about this music . You make me feel it brand new. Stay well and keep listenin'!
Played this at my Dad's funeral. But just life the long and winding road. Miss you Dad!
My dad also like so much this song and I played this song at funeral.. I will pray for your father. RIP
This song makes me sad, it makes think that it was the end of Beatles Era 😢
Heartbreaking but beautiful. Paul wrote it about the Beatles breakup.
No he didn't. It was about Linda. Listen to the lyrics.
It is a road of pain for sure. Begging someone to come back who never will. It makes me think about my dad. I am still devastated even three years later. This song is a mythological masterpiece. And yes, its a song about loss and being lost. It hits me every time.
I always love your Beatles reactions ❤
I do too!
ONE OF- IF NOT THE BEST- SONGS EVER
Long time listener first time caller lol. Most diverse band that ever was in my opinion. Such a beautiful melody on this one. Oddly enough not even my favorite song. I guess that means to me that there arent many bad beatle songs if any!
This song and another Beatles Song called: 'Something' definitely are The Beatles top 2 songs in my opinion.
Jayy, "The Long and Winding Road" always makes me cry....I did so just watching you listening to it. It has very deep personal meaning to me, especially now in this time of my life, I really choke up even more than I did when I was still young (I even cried listening to it then), but now it has even more personal to me. I just LOVE it, the way it is.
I love Jayy's reactions, she has good taste
My senior prom theme song. 1981. The song is timeless. Seems like yesterday and at the same time it seems like forever ago.
This song reminds me of my first love❤❤❤
The last single by the Beatles.
There will never be another...
Great reaction! You kind of described how the Beatles as people probably felt when it was clear to them they had to break. up
It makes me cry..
The road to her heart, the heart is the door
I've been waiting for this... Get ready to get blown away my girl XO 💜 #NYGenXBIKERLady
You could just imagine John Lennon crying in the theatre looking at his friend Paul, as was witnessed by Jann Wenner in 1971. I will never believe Paul when he said it wasn’t about the band.
It's also the Beatles swan song (unless you include 'Free as a bird')
This was really the Beatles' swan song....the end of the roller coaster ride...the amusement parking was closing for good. The Let it Be Tapes sat around for months, recorded in January 1969. they went on to record Abbey Road, technically their last album recorded, but Let It Be was released the following year, 1970. John Lennon gave the tapes to producer Phil Spector, who at the time was sort of washed up, and Spector created the wall of sound production he was known for on Let It Be, I Me Mine, Across the universe and Long and Winding Road. He used orchestras and choirs. McCartney hated what he did, saying it was over produced and NOT what he intended, and resented Lennon just giving away the tapes to anyone without his consent on his songs. He especially hated the production of The Long and Winding Road. You can here the Let It Be album without all the orchestra and choirs tuff on an album released some time ago called Let It Be Naked. What puzzled me is in 1976 and moving forward, Paul would sing this in Wings and his other solo bands using a brass section, and even an orchestra. on, yes, The Long and Winding Road...why? If he hated it so much, why did he do that? Duh...
Maybe because that is what his audience is used to and he changed it because of that - McCartney has said that he was very uncomfortable performing Beatles songs within his set it took awhile before he started using them more and as he said 'If I am paying to see someone in concert I want them to sing all the songs I liked them for'. Just a guess though.
Yes ma’am. Beatles are the best.
Thanks for this great Beatles song. Please go right back to the start for the song that created Beatlemania - SHE LOVES YOU - you will love it. So will your viewers. Manchester version 1963 Live.
FYI the orchestra was added without McCartney knowing about it. He was furious, but since it was at a period when they were nearing a breakup and the fact the album release was delayed, he left it as was. There is a more recent release of the whole album called Let It Be Naked. and a 50th anniversary reissue with all the versions.
A música mais linda do mundo.
mccartney tapped into something other worldly in this song. masterpiece
Paul did not like the production-he thought it over produced. In concert he uses far less instrumentation.
Let it Be was recorded prior to Abbey Road but released after due to problems with the film, Let it Be. Paul hated that Phil Specter added female voices and orchestration to this song. That is why years later they released Let It Be Naked.
This song, for me, is about remembering where we came from.
I heard McCartney had heard Bridge Over Trubled Water and wanted to top it. A common response back in the day....Pet Sounds was a response to St Peppers. Great music all around!
I'd enjoy a reaction on a whole album... Probably Let It be itself because ypu can find songs like Across the Universe or One after 909 and Two Of Us...
Originally recorded with just Paul McCartney and a guitar.. George Martin producer added the orchestral backing later
Thumbs up!
It was a fitting end to the Beatles dynasty
And then they were gone.
Paul hated the shmaltzy string and choir arrangement soldered onto the basic recording by producer Phil Spector that a couple of decades ago he authorized a stripped down remix of it (along with other tracks on the album) and released it on the 'Let It Be - Naked' album. Give that a listen for a comparison.
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Paul hated the overproduced wall-of-sound by Phil Spector in this song
Paul preferred just a piano
@@Pamledger478 Yes, he didn't like the Hollywood treatment, neither do i
Paul has a different version on his album- give my regards to broad street! Review that one
This song always makes me weepy! The end of The Beetles the, After Linda’s death, this is hard to listen to.
Listen to the version off the "LET IT BE naked" album, it's how Paul McCartney intended it to sound.
I know Paul McCartney didn’t like it but I like Phil Spector’s “Wall of Strings” 🎻. My favorite Beatle song 🎶 and the last 😢
@Joanne O Beirne. I am glad someone besides me, LOVES this version, even though Paul didn't. I think the orchestra and choir just add more melancholy to the song, and it ALWAYS brings me to tears, yet it doesn't if I listen to the "naked" version of it, the way Paul intended.
@@patticrichton1135yeah, this is by far my favorite version as well. I know Spector is a HORRIBLE human being, but in the studio, he was a genius, and he knew what he was doing. I can’t imagine this song without everything he added, and the “Let It Be Naked” version is definitely not as emotional to me.
To me this song means the end for The Beatles. It always makes me sad.
A lot of people rag on this album but it's still one of my favorites.
This song was from their last album and then they broke up. It wasn't the last album they made but was released last. It's kind of a goodbye to the Beatles and the 60s. An amazing coincidence and sad. You are very perceptive to pick up on the deeper meaning of the song.
John Lennon actually wrote the second verse
Paul said he was influenced by Ray Charles for this song.
If you like the Beatles then you will like Wings
This was their goodbye song
Revolution 9 for the Beatles song you will hate.
McCartney hated the orchestral arrangements added by the bad guy Phil Spector against his decisions. On TH-cam there is also the original "dry" version.
The "naked" version of this song leaves out the over production by Phil Spector. It's a much cleaner and clearer version.
I like both... it's just a fabulous song.
Should lusten to George Michael singing this live
I feel like Paul wrote this one to John, feeling the impending breakup of the band.
Great song but spoiled by the smaltzy orchestral arrangement by Phil Spector. McCartney apparently hated all the strings on the song.
The strings made it more calming.
I don't think it's any worse than George Martin's arrangement for Goodnight. According to Wikipedia, the orchestra was scored and conducted by Richard Hewson, rather than Spector - though he probably told Hewson what he wanted.
Maybe I'm just used to it, but no other version seems quite as good - heavenly harps and all!
For me, I LOVE this version of it, much better than the "naked" version. And I LOVE Paul and I know he hated what Spector did with the orchestra and choir, but again, I think it's BEAUTIFUL.
do yer blues please
Why do we all have to have that one long and winding road with someone?
Its a melancholy tune, especially as it was the last track the Beatles would release (at least until the surviving members produced "Free As A Bird" using an old Lennon demo in the 90's). Paul's original arrangement included only the four Beatles; producer Phil Spector would add the orchestra and choir before the song was released, upsetting McCartney. To this day when Paul performs this song live, its without the extra stuff.
Yes, they were geniuses. In terms of just pure intelligence, McCartney was in the top 10percent of the top 1 percent, and Lennon was in the top 1 percent of the top 1 percent. There is no such thing as a great musician who is not very intelligent.
The naked version is better
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no you lost your way