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2 May 2013
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I’m wondering whether there is a cultural effect with The Long And Winding Road . I was strongly reminded that despite our many similarities there appears to be a difference in perception between (say) and American and British perspective after viewing the opening of last night’s Superbowl. Whilst this is clearly a stereotype, American’s seem much more inclined to take sentimentality at absolute face value, with uttermost sincerity whereas British seem to view it through largely jaundiced eyes. Is this at play in this song given the US producer? Not saying either perspective is right or wrong, simply that it might be a cultural thing.
11.09am
24 August 2021
Offline I personally love the new mix on the Super Deluxe edition of Let It Be . The orchestra doesn’t smother the original instrumentation anymore, and it breathes a lot better. It sounds more like how George Martin would’ve handled the orchestra overdubs.
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Mr. Moonlight11.05pm
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Paul Prole said
Love this song. Love the Spector treatment. Listening to the Naked version is like listening to a demo by comparison. Can’t see why people all of a sudden didn’t/don’t like strings on a Beatles track. Think they mean the choir. For me it’s epic. Huge fan of it.
My standout moment of Spector’s treatment is “the wild and windy night, that the rain washed away has left a pool of tears”. Goosebumps.
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Offline How Paul sings “You left me waiting here, a long long time ago” after the instrumental section is gorgeous. You can here the emotion.
I still prefer the bareness of the bare performance but there is something about Spector’s arrangement that is growing on me – maybe if he had reigned it in just a little bit. It works later on in the song.
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10.20am
17 June 2021
Offline It’s a brilliant song. I love all versions of it, including the Phil Spector one. The strings and the choir on that version is beautiful.
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30 August 2021
Offline Paul Prole said
Love this song. Love the Spector treatment. Listening to the Naked version is like listening to a demo by comparison. Can’t see why people all of a sudden didn’t/don’t like strings on a Beatles track. Think they mean the choir. For me it’s epic. Huge fan of it.
If it had been released that way to begin with, I’d probably also dislike the additions but in the context of what we have the whole Naked album sounds sterile by comparison.
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7 November 2022
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12.59pm
17 June 2021
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Paul said he originally wrote this for Tom Jones. I would have liked to hear/see that, however it’s not a song Tom could swivel his hips to, so that’s a big drawback.
I didn’t know he initially wrote it for him. It may not be a song Tom could move to, but I could see him do a cover of it nowadays. Tom’s voice still sounds fantastic at 82.
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30 August 2021
Offline It’s not unlike Green Green Grass of Home in a way. I can see Tom Jones doing it very well.
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Offline Paul Prole said
Love this song. Love the Spector treatment. Listening to the Naked version is like listening to a demo by comparison. Can’t see why people all of a sudden didn’t/don’t like strings on a Beatles track. Think they mean the choir. For me it’s epic. Huge fan of it.
Can’t agree more. Fantastic one, full of passion and transmits a beautiful nostalgia feeling. I wonder if what Paul didn’t like was the arrangement (which is fabulous IMHO) or the fact of not being asked. I also wonder why it didn’t become a hit.
11.21pm
1 December 2009
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Eze_Rojo said
I also wonder why it didn’t become a hit.
It did become a hit, though, in North America, their last chart-topper, when it was released as a single in 1970. I don’t think it was a single in the UK, though (but I might be wrong about that. The correct info is available elsewhere on this site.)
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Eze_Rojo said
I also wonder why it didn’t become a hit.
It did become a hit, though, in North America, their last chart-topper, when it was released as a single in 1970. I don’t think it was a single in the UK, though (but I might be wrong about that. The correct info is available elsewhere on this site.)
No. It was never released in the UK, ‘Let It Be ‘ was the only single in 1970. Not sure why.
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30 August 2021
Offline I think it came out in Australia, too, with For You Blue on the back.
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