#958. Lineage of Song: “The Long and Winding Road”

 

On a Beatles kick, here’s a song that I’ve been getting into more and more since the Let It Be…Naked version without the added production was released, and the subsequent take from Yesterday following it so faithfully. I hated how critics tried to bury the movie by suggesting younger viewers couldn’t possibly understand it when that was kind of the whole point, that you could discover this music all over again and it would be just as amazing. I was born a decade after the band split, so my whole life has been exploring it after the fact. If you believe it’s impossible it’s because you need it to be true. But it certainly doesn’t have to be.