The Long And Winding Road (track)
by The Beatles
The Long And Winding Road appears on the following album(s) by The Beatles:
- Let It Be (track #10) (this album) (1970)
- Let It Be... Naked (track #4) (2003)
- 1967-1970 (track #28) (compilation) (1973)
- 1 (track #27) (compilation) (2000)
- Anthology 3 (track #35) (compilation) (1996)
- Love Songs (track #20) (compilation) (1977)
- Reel Music (track #14) (compilation) (1982)
- The Beatles Ballads (track #14) (compilation) (1980)
- Anthology Highlights (track #22) (compilation) (2011)
- The Beatles (track #191) (compilation) (2009)
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The most emotional song on the album. It's a beautiful track and is the song that sums up the end of the Beatles better than any other. The strings that Paul McCartney got so irate about give the song a poignancy that would have been missing without them. Anyway, McCartney did the same thing to it on his Give my regards to broad street soundtrack, with even more sickly results. Anyway, the long and winding road, is brilliant, but it should have been the last song on the album.
poppmusic TOP 100 COMMENTER 10/30/2016 22:02 | #177764
Yeah, I wish they had used the orginal version. The excess orchestration almost sounds like Spector and Lennon are mocking McCartney's melodramtic tendencies. The original version stands as a 70s classic with Elton John's "Your Song" or Billy Joel's "Just the Way You Are" (Edited)
Mother Nature's Son TOP 100 COMMENTER 06/25/2014 00:45 | #115195
I for one don't think Phil Spector killed the song, I think he gave it the extra depth that the song deserves. Sometimes less is more, but in this case I'd miss the pompous orchestration if it wasn't there.
It annoys me a bit that either this or "Across the Universe" wasn't chosen as album-closer. Seems like the perfect note to go out on instead of almost announcing a comeback with "Get Back".
arthur237 12/07/2015 23:43 | #154100
this is nice but let it be naked version is so much more beautiful (Edited)
NowhereMan 06/03/2014 11:21 | #113595
My funeral song. Incredible.
