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From album
Let It Be
The Beatles · 1970 · Track 10
Details
Duración3:38
ÁlbumLet It Be
Año1970
ISRCGBAYE0601717
Fun facts
The Beatles recorded The Long and Winding Road in 1969, a year after they split up. The song was born in a moment of tension within the group, when Paul McCartney wrote it on his Scottish farm in 1968. The idea came while he was thinking about how it might sound if someone like Ray Charles had made it. The main recording was in January 1969, with a simple sound: piano, bass, guitar and percussion. It is a slow ballad, with a rhythm that seems to float, as if time were being stretched.
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The story behind
The Beatles recorded The Long and Winding Road in 1969, during a series of sessions for an album that was called Get Back. The song is based on a slow ballad, with piano and a melody that moves between different tones. McCartney wrote the lyrics at his farm in Scotland, and it was inspired by the growing tension within the band. The song has no chorus, and the introduction is repeated, which makes it a bit confusing at first.
The original recording was in January 1969, with McCartney on piano, Lennon on bass, Harrison on guitar, Starr on drums and Preston on organ. Later, Phil Spector handled the mixing, and added an orchestra and a choir. The final version was released as a single in May 1970, and it was the last single by The Beatles to reach number one in the United States.