Song – The Beatles ‘The Long and Winding Road’

This song was from the 1970 album ‘Let it Be’. It was written by Paul McCartney and credited to him and John Lennon. It was issued as a single a month after the Beatles broke up and became there twentieth and last number 1 hit on the Billboard Hot 100 Chart in the United States.

The Wikipedia entry for the song records the following:

The main recording of the song took place in January 1969 and featured a sparse musical arrangement of piano, bass, guitar and percussion. When preparing the tapes from these sessions for release in April 1970, producer Phil Spector added orchestral and choral overdubs. Spector’s modifications angered McCartney to the point that when he made his case in the English High Court for the dissolution of the Beatles’ legal partnership, McCartney cited the treatment of the song was one of the six reasons justifying the split. Later versions of the recording with simpler instrumentation were subsequently released by the [former] Beatles.

The writer, with respect, prefers the orchestral version. Different folks, different strokes!

The song is regarded as one of the Beatles’ best. It featured in the 2019 movie “Yesterday” as being the lead character Jack’s song supposedly written in 10 minutes in a competition with Ed Sheeran.