SO POWERFUL!! The Beatles - The Long and Winding Road First Time Listening!! 

Paul wrote it probably about the loss he felt about of the end of the Beatles...they were about to break...he was very depressed after the end of the Beatles

The Beatles are the Best Band Ever.

"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.

Don't you LOVE the way the strings build and build 3 minutes into the song????

My love passed four years ago and I'm still standing here.

Spector may have been a madman but i have always absolutely loved the production on this song and even though i have been a huge Beatles fan for over 40 years and as much as a musical genius Paul is i dont agree with him regarding the production, strings and choirs, i think its just wonderful.

When Ray Charles heard this recording for the first time he cried -- I hope Paul McCartney knows that anecdote. Paul did not like the choir and orchestral arrangements that Phil Spector overdubbed onto this track, normally Paul would have had input. I happen to love the orchestra and choir, what a beautiful haunting melody.

Still gives me chills

That is such a great song but then again I pretty much like all Beatles songs from the very earliest to the last ones and then a lot of their various solo careers as well. They were such a force.

This was the song my 1972 Graduating High School class entered the auditorium to.

I think this is one of their best songs. It's just SO BEAUTIFUL!

3:19 I think it's a song about both. It's obviously about John and how he feels about him and the history they have together. He knows they will always be friends (The long and winding road that leads to your door will never disappear.) He seems to allude to the stormy and crazy times of being in the Beatles and how it caused them to drift apart eventually, and this makes him very sad. (The wild and windy night that the rain washed away has left a pool of tears.) Finally he accepts that things will never be the same between them but needs to be reassured that he will never be far away. (Don't leave me waiting here. Lead me to your door.) Beautiful song.

I find it interesting that McCartney hated this version, and all of the songs Phil Spector produced on the album. McCartney later re-mixed all of the songs, taking out the heavenly choirs and Spector's "wall of sound" production and released a very stripped down, "Let It Be - Naked" album that I quite enjoy.

The lasting beauty of this song is found in the orchestrations. The strings, horns, and placed a just the right moments. Beautiful. A masterpiece.

I always thought this song was for John, and knowing that the end of the band was near.

I don't know why but one of my favorite songs of the Beatles is Paperback Writer.

McCartney didn’t like the way Phil Spector produced this song or the album in general. He remixed it and the result was ‘Let it Be Naked’ a stripped down version. Either way it’s a wonderful collection of songs.

You can always tell who contributed the most to writing the song because they will be singing the lead.

I listened to this when I was young(18), and I totally understood.

My favorite Beatles song. Absolutely beautiful.

This song always touches my soul and makes my eyes teary.

I've always thought that the song was about dealing with loss, but that you eventually have to go on living your life; the long and winding road.

Such a beautiful song.That's why the Beatles are the greatest ever

The amazing thing is the did all they did before any of them were 30 when they broke up.

Hard to believe you never heard this timeless song before. Composed by Paul at his farm in Scotland, during an emotional time, knowing the band was nearing an end. I read somewhere that the "long and winding road" lyric was inspired literally by scenic view of his farm along coast. The original recording did not have the orchestra and choir. Producer, Phil Spector added that later, which infuriated McCartney and accelerated the band's breakup. Both versions were released.

My favorite Beatles song 🎶 and unfortunately the last one 😢

I think you got the message of the song and have a great appreciation for this masterpiece. I have listened to this song for about 50 years and I( do appreciate more now than when I was young. And I loved it when I was young. It is like a fine wine. It gets better with age.

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I love the scene in the movie "Yesterday" when they have a music bet and he wins the bet against Ed Sheeran with this song......Ed walks out.

I really have always loved the orchestral sound, because that's the way I have always heard this beautiful song.

The Beatles do not have any bad songs!

Its a song about someone who you lost, and you're begging them to come back, but they never will. It's a song about my dad. I miss him every day and it's been almost three years now. What a mythological, melancholy song.

I think it’s a prayer 🙏🏼

This and Let it Be are my two favorite Beatles tunes.

You are such a deep and Feeling man…wish I was younger. I enjoy watching you so much.

This song is used so well in the movie Yesterday. It holds up 50 years later vs. any song you can name

You really ought to hear George Michael sing this song live. It was at a concert in memory for Paul's wife Linda who died of breast cancer. Paul said that George sang the song better than he did. I always loved this song when Paul sang it but George to it to a new level. Check it out.

When you left me, I was determined to prove I could find another happy place, a fulfilling person. But no matter what road I try to escape down, it only leads me to understand inescapably that you are the only one I will ever love.

This is the version that Paul McCartney didn't like, because Phil Spector over produced (in George Martin's words) the orchestral strings. However, my late mother, who never really had a good word for the Beatles (she was an Elvis fan) used to love this track. So what does Paul McCartney really know about music? 😉

They are so great

The Let it Be, while the project was in disarray, it represents Paul's most personnel writing. Paul was typically always writing from a second person or third person perspective. But with Let it Be, he was writing his most personal reflections; Let it Be, Two of Us and Long and Winding Road.

love the orchestrial waves that come and go , a simply beautiful song , a gem

Yes, one of Paul's best... amazing, so heartbreaking

at the time as a 15-16yr old, I absolutely loved the production of the this song with all the orchestra and choir, who knew Paul hated it. If you watch Get Back, they hoped to make a, unplugged", version of the songs for LIB.

They are genius in their own way when it comes to music.70 years old now still never get tired listening to them.

Yes, watch the Get Back sessions. You'll see Paul create the hit song Get Back from scratch in front of your eyes. Amazing.

The BEST☮️🎶

"Yesterday" another Macca song. The most covered song...ever.

Release date 1970, 8 years after first stepping into a recording studio. Released after their breakup.

No one can write a ballad better than Paul McCartney.

You used the phrase "Love is the answer", ironically, John used that line in "Mind Games" in 1973.

Was actually recorded as just paul and a guitar... The orchestral backing and harmonies were added after before release

Life is a long and winding road

Such a beautiful song 🎵 and always enjoy your thoughtful reactions:)

Paul’s range is incredible. This was his song & more a ballad.

The 2021 mix is the best version.

This is a love song to his mates The Beatles when they were splitting up.

Michael, you seem to enjoy the songs with emotion and meaning. Listen to Barbra Streisand's duet with Bryan Adams I Finally Found Someone, and her singles Evergreen, Somewhere, and her duet with Neil Diamond, You Don't Bring me Flowers. If you watch that duet, make sure you watch them sing it live at the Grammys. Simply amazing.

From their Let It Be album. Yea it’s good as they say even better

As mentioned it's about his relationship with John... similar like Oh, Darling is for George, when he left them for a week during Let It Be recording...

A couple of maybe real stories about this wonderful song. First it is said PM composed this in minutes to win a bet. Second, he disliked the involving orchestra sound from Phis Spector that was impossed by Lennon and this was one of the disputes that marked the end of the group. Actually he managed to publish an accoustic version of the whole album many years later.

The spector's version❤

It was written by Paul McCartney and credited to Lennon-McCartney.

Listen to Revolution by the Beatles... and I Want to Hold Your Hand, which propelled them in the US market in 1964....

The last Beatles number 1.

You need to listen to "Let It Be... Naked", the re-relessed version of the album with Phil Spector's "wall of sound" (which Paul never liked) stripped away and letting your hear the compositions and the foursome's instruments better.

Yeah Yeah Yeah, Yeah!

Sounds like strings and vocals.

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Paul knew somehow that the end was almost coming...so sad

I have to ask - what's the significance of the Hellman's mayonnaise jar?

If someone is seeing this twice it's because I thought I sent it but evidently not. Phil Spector if you remember the trial for murder. He's the one that did the orchestral background to this. Paul was furious. This was after the Beatles split or at least were just arguing that time because the three of them had gone with Alan Klein. And Alan Klein was also mainly responsible for this he turned this over to Phil Spector. Paul was furious he wanted the original version to go on let it be. You can find the original version I don't think this one is too bad but I do think the orchestra does over it because this is a beautiful song. And Paul always has the best instinct as to what's best for his songs. And FYI George Martin did not get the proper credits for this. This was a big deal back then. The public didn't know so much. We didn't have the information back then that we do today. Pardon any misspelled words I have to use the visual issues and I can't edit.

Its a love song, mangled by Phil Spector.

Michael Duffy you remind me of Scottish actor Ewan McGregor

dead on you have to have the guts to wear your feelings,,thats what its all about....

Ahahahah... sei simpaticissimo e sembri un ragazzino (magari lo sei) alla scoperta di un mondo musicale sconosciuto... e ti apprezzo molto per questo😍 "The Long and Winding Road" ha accompagnato la mia giovinezza in cui ho pianto per giovani amori non ricambiati e gioito per i balli lenti dove magari ci scappava anche un bacio 🤭 A parte le mie stupidaggini personali che peraltro grazie a TE ho rivissuto... GRAZIE ANCORA, ti consiglio due cose: a) The Beatles: "Get Back" miniserie televisiva documentario del 2021 diretta da Peter Jackson. Il documentario sui The Beatles segue la creazione artistica dell'album Let It Be e la pianificazione della prima esibizione dal vivo dopo tre anni. Il documentario contiene il celebre concerto dei Beatles sul tetto della APPLE (ai tempi la casa discografica dei BEATLES ... Bill Gates non c'entra) Nessuna band ha mai osato aprire il proprio sipario, umano e artistico, in un modo così sincero e spericolato come accade in questo film. In questo documentario c'è anche la genesi di "The Long and Winding Road" b) Il Film "Yesterday"... non ti racconto nulla ma è VERAMENTE divertentissimo... cercalo!!! Scusa se mi sono dilungata ma ho capito che sei avido di bella musica e devi ancora crescere. Con Affetto Teresa IT

It is ironic that Paul himself HATED this version with the Phil effect as he took over as producer of the album. I personally liked the orchestral effect but admit, having heard the version he prefers, I get his point. His vocals are so drowned out by the orchestra. My favorite version is the solo version on 'Give My Regards to Broad Street' using a sax.

Something different from the Beatles I think u would like is “Yellow Submarine” from their animated movie of the same name. It was a favorite of mine as a child🔥🔥🔥

Listen to the version from "Let It Be Naked," and see how McCartney wanted it to sound, instead of Phil Spector. It's way better.

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I like these videos, only because Hellman's is my favorite mayonnaise. And the songs are good too.

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It was never released here in the UK at the time, because McCartney hated the over production on it by Phil Spector!

If you haven't seen the movie "Yesterday" please check it out. This song is featured in such a beautiful way!

On the Beatles songs whoever wrote it sing it

Check out the mix on LET IT BE ...NAKED and hear the song as it was originally recorded (but unreleased until 2003). You actually hear the other Beatles and keyboardist Billy Preston on that version. George's guitar parts and Billy's keyboards on that version is better than the choir and strings on this version.

Paul McCartney wrote the song and his mother passed away and her name was Mary and it came to him in a dream one night and just said let it be

Wanker! - That's my reaction

I much prefer the version from the Let it Be Naked album. Just piano, bass, drum without all those strings and choir voices smothering it. Crazy ass Phil Spector added all the strings and ruined it. McCartney hated this version and had a fit when he heard it.

When David Foster got the chance to work with Paul he hoped they would make another "Long and Winding", but Paul was being coy and nothing memorable resulted from the collaboration. Such a shame...

If you like emotionnal you have to hear the psychopath song John wrote about her mother. It's called mother.

One of William Campbell’s very best…

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They both had input into each other’s songs, but whomever sang it, wrote it. Always know this. ❤

I love almost everything the Beatles ever did, and this is another great one. The only thing weak about it is that Lennon, who hated playing the bass, did a terrible job with it on this track. I could hear the clams even as a teen in 1970.

Do you get it now? Paul thought Phil Spector's orchestration ruined the song!

What's with the jar of mayo behind you ?

This song is about the break up of the Beatles.

This tune was unfortunately produced by Phil Spector whom over produced it with too many strings and choir. The honest version is available, or should I say the Paul approved one. This version pissed Paul off because of the over production.

Just to weigh in here, this song is not even in my top 200 favorite Beatle songs.