Tuesday, August 5, 2014

MUSIC: Paul McCartney & The Beatles, "The Long and Winding Road" (1970)




I don't want to get into the whole Spector thing right now. It's late and I didn't have my potatoes. But Paul's voice here is stellar. The strings sing out. The choir goes up. Phil Spector did just fine. Anyway, the road winds around forever and there's no going back. (But sure, you already knew that.)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WA6HE_5Uhrs


1 comment:

  1. Deep background? I'll give you deep background...

    The "long and winding road" of the song was claimed to have been inspired by the B842, a thirty-one mile winding road in Scotland, running along the east coast of Kintyre into Campbeltown, and part of the eighty-two mile drive from Lochgilphead. In an interview in 1994, McCartney described the lyric more obliquely "It's rather a sad song. I like writing sad songs, it's a good bag to get into because you can actually acknowledge some deeper feelings of your own and put them in it. It's a good vehicle, it saves having to go to a psychiatrist."

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