The Long and Winding Road

When you play with fire, you're gonna get burned, and if you're Paul McCartney handing over one of his most bathetic recordings to Phil Spector, you're gonna get a cathedral's worth of production on the final product. Paul complained for years about Spector going overboard on this one, but with that song, what did Paul expect? Actually, the unadorned version on Anthology 3, obviously closer to Paul's vision of the song, plays far less schmaltzy than the Let It Be album version, but neither version is exactly modest in its sense of sentimentality.

(Decades later, after two Beatles had already passed on, Paul finally got his revenge on Phil Spector by having the entire album re-done without Spector's glitzy production, and re-named Let It Be...Naked.)

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