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5.19am
9 June 2010
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Sorry, mSkct! You deserve…. (drumroll)
Two and a half apples, a Blue Meanie, and a Mal Evans!
Step right up and claim your prize!
If I seem to act unkind, it's only me, it's not my mind that is confusing things.
5.25am
25 November 2010
Offline skye said:
I was trying my best Graham Chapman.
Monty Python and “killed”? Please don't tempt me with opportunities to make parrot jokes. 🙂
5.29am
13 November 2009
Offline This is supposed to be a happy occasion! Let's not argue about who killed who, and remember we're here for a song.
Ad hoc, ad loc, and quid pro quo! So little time! So much to know!
5.29am
13 September 2010
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I personally think the strings and the choir elevate the emotion of the song. But I am a string player, so I could be a bit biased on that part. To me it doesn't seem very tedious or long at all. I think it's one of those songs that even though Paul didn't like it, it's a great song anyway.
"I am definitely a mad man with a box."- Matt Smith as the 11th Doctor of Doctor Who (Episode 1 Season 5: The Eleventh Hour)
5.34am
8 April 2010
Offline I don't mind the strings, but I think the choir is too far
2.33pm
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14 April 2010
Offline skye said:
This is supposed to be a happy occasion! Let's not argue about who killed who, and remember we're here for a song.
Your right..because this song…has that…certain…special…something…
Cut that out, cut that out!!!
To the fountain of perpetual mirth, let it roll for all its worth. And all the children boogie.
3.24pm
30 October 2010
Offline It`s an amazing song
But it would have been better if they asked Paul about it, it would have avoided certain problems in the group, afterall he liked the strings but not the choir
John, Paul, George and Ringo= The Beatles
And i buried Tulio!
3.02pm
12 April 2012
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I like the song but not what spector has done to it. The best takes is i think the one used in naked because it has no bass errors and a nice organ solo. But I don’t think that strings are wrong at all, but what spector did was too much it sounds like good night, I don’t even hear the piano anymore in some parts. I think the perfect version of The Long And Winding Road (and i think if let it be hadn’t had the no overdub stuff martin would have produced it like this) would be the 31st January take (naked) orchestrated in the way Golden Slumbers is. Anyway it would be nice if there were a version of the let it be album produced by george martin (like the let it be single version)
Once there was a way to get back homewards. Once there was a way to get back home; sleep pretty darling do not cry. And I will sing a lullaby
6.45pm
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1 May 2011
Offline The Spector mix isnt too bad if not played too often, the worst offence Spector made to the beatles catalogue was turning Across The Universe into an unlistenable borefest dirge. There are a few really nice moments, 1 being after the bridge and orchestral solo the louder drum immediately after “But still they lead me back to The Long And Winding Road “.
My favourite is the Anthology 3 basic take, the bareness of the performance gives it a more emotional feel.
Not a big fan of the Naked version, the solo is pretty dull for a start.
"I told you everything I could about me, Told you everything I could" ('Before Believing' - Emmylou Harris)
8.02pm
17 March 2012
Offline I always skip this song, but I listen to the first line before I do that
9.34pm
12 April 2012
Offline I’ve just listened to the Good Evening New York City version, I think that’s the perfect arrangement and that’s the way the arrangement of the studio version should have been
Once there was a way to get back homewards. Once there was a way to get back home; sleep pretty darling do not cry. And I will sing a lullaby
3.18am
1 May 2010
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I love that nickname and the avatar… great!!
I agree with you. I have seen Paul twice (yeah Mith, bring that fact up any time you can 
) and I have to say it truly gets me. It’s a song that I love.
BTW Have you noticed that in the video screens in Paul concerts, you can see a desert? A friend who was with me in the last concert said “That’s the new My Love” (the song he dedicates to Linda).
I’m a bit ashamed to say that I cried because I can totally relate with that. 
Here comes the sun….. Scoobie-doobie……
Something in the way she moves…..attracts me like a cauliflower…
Bop. Bop, cat bop. Go, Johnny, Go.
Beware of Darkness…
4.00pm
12 April 2012
Offline No, I hadn’t noticed it, but after I read you’re post i watched a video of one of pauls concerts and then I noticed it, thanks for the hint
Once there was a way to get back homewards. Once there was a way to get back home; sleep pretty darling do not cry. And I will sing a lullaby
10.39pm
12 April 2012
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In the spector version the beginning is very nice (the The Long And Winding Road line) but then there is this loud dum-dum and it’s so different to the soft style of the beginning I think that sounds teerible but in the other parts of the song the orchestra is not so bad (only when there’s another dum-dum). Anyway I habe a question: Are george’s guitar and billy’s electric piano or organ (i read sometimes that he played electric piano, sometimes that he played organ) cut out or are they there but not easily audible? I read somewhere that spector jsut used paul’s piano and vocals and lennon’s bass and then oberdubbed the orchestra (+new drums by ringo) but I also read (I think on beatlesbible) that he just turned the volume of guitar and electric piano/organ quiet. So what is true? If billy were also on this song he would be on four songs on 1 (get back, something, let it be and The Long And Winding Road ), quite good.
Edit: I think I hear george’s guitar line, clearly audible in the Anthology 3 version, very quietly after the “that leads to your door” part in the beginning (and on similar points) and at 2:05 i hear some chords possibly played on george’s guitar which are clearly audible on both the spector and the anthology version. I haven’t heard bill so far, though.
Once there was a way to get back homewards. Once there was a way to get back home; sleep pretty darling do not cry. And I will sing a lullaby
12.14pm
22 July 2012
Offline I didn’t like it initially, but after several listens it grew on me. Now I think it’s really great.
4.25pm
1 December 2009
Offline Hm. Well, I’ve known the song for 30+ years and it STILL hasn’t grown on me! (Whether “naked” or clothed.) Guess I’ll give it another 30 and see if i’m still resistant.
GEORGE: In fact, The Detroit Sound. JOHN: In fact, yes. GEORGE: In fact, yeah. Tamla-Motown artists are our favorites. The Miracles. JOHN: We like Marvin Gaye. GEORGE: The Impressions PAUL & GEORGE: Mary Wells. GEORGE: The Exciters. RINGO: Chuck Jackson. JOHN: To name but eighty.
5.40am
1 May 2010
Offline hahahahahahaha that comment was soo…. VonB jajajaja 
Here comes the sun….. Scoobie-doobie……
Something in the way she moves…..attracts me like a cauliflower…
Bop. Bop, cat bop. Go, Johnny, Go.
Beware of Darkness…
10.03pm
26 July 2011
Offline I’m afraid I’ll never be a big fan of this song.
I remember when I first heard it, way back when it was first released in 1970, The Beatles were just breaking up, and I thought to myself “if THIS is the type of song they’re releasing nowadays, maybe it’s just as well they’re calling it quits”. The Henry Manciniesqe strings and choir don’t help it, but then again, they do suit it. It’s Paul’s sentimentality run amok, in my opinion. I don’t think he sings it all that well, either. And John’s bass is pretty clumsy.
It was released not too long after “Let It Be “, and I thought “wow… I remember when these guys knew how to rock — it’s almost ironic to call them the BEATles nowadays”. I’ve since come to like “Let It Be ” quite a bit…. but regarding “Long and Winding Road”, I’m with Vonbontee — maybe in another three decades, when I’m in the home, I’ll come to like it!
I've got nothing to say, but it's okay..
GOOD MORNING!
GOOD MORNING!!
GOOD MORNING!!!
12.39am
12 April 2012
Offline I think I can hear billy’s organ/electric piano in the bridge. Anyway vonbonte your comment was so awesome. “Whether naked or clothed”, just awesome
Once there was a way to get back homewards. Once there was a way to get back home; sleep pretty darling do not cry. And I will sing a lullaby
4.51am
1 December 2009
Offline Thanks GeorgeTSimpson!
And thanks, too, IMdeWalrus! (Henry Mancini rocks, by the way)
GEORGE: In fact, The Detroit Sound. JOHN: In fact, yes. GEORGE: In fact, yeah. Tamla-Motown artists are our favorites. The Miracles. JOHN: We like Marvin Gaye. GEORGE: The Impressions PAUL & GEORGE: Mary Wells. GEORGE: The Exciters. RINGO: Chuck Jackson. JOHN: To name but eighty.
