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The Long and Winding Road; released in June 1970 it was The Beatles 20th and final number one single in the US. Written by Paul McCartney, the song is a reflection on the journey of The Beatles. McCartney was extremely dissatisfied with the original version mixed by Phil Spector who included a string arrangement over the original ballad. In 2003, an entirely different take free of Spector’s overdubs was released on Let It Be… Naked, a stripped back version of the original 1970 Let It Be album.

Unusually, it’s Lennon playing bass on the original recording (instead of McCartney) – possibly because it was only meant to be a quick run-through with Paul on piano, with McCartney planning to overdub the bass afterwards.

Throughout the track, Lennon makes some amateurish mistakes (e.g. a weird-sounding slide up the fretboard at 1:03), leading some critics to accuse him of deliberately sabotaging McCartney’s song (since relations between the two were pretty abysmal at this point).

Credits
Orchestral Arranger
Choir Arranger
Fender Rhodes
Acoustic Guitar
Recorded At
Apple Studio and EMI, London, UK (January 26, 1969; April 1, 1970)
Release Date
May 11, 1970
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