McCartney: I was a bit flipped out and tripped out at that time. It’s a sad song because it’s all about the unattainable; the door you never quite reach. This is the road that you never get to the end of.
McCartney: I just sat down at my piano in Scotland, started playing and came up with that song, imagining it was going to be done by someone like Ray Charles. I have always found inspiration in the calm beauty of Scotland and again it proved the place where I found inspiration.
McCartney: It’s rather a sad song. I like writing sad songs, it’s a good bag to get into because you can actually acknowledge some deeper feelings of your own and put them in it. It’s a good vehicle, it saves having to go to a psychiatrist.
Martin: That made me angry - and it made Paul even angrier, because neither he nor I knew about it till it had been done. It happened behind our backs because it was done when Allen Klein was running John. He’d organized Phil Spector and I think George and Ringo had gone along with it. They’d actually made an arrangement with EMI and said, ‘This is going to be our record.’
Martin: EMI came to me and said, ‘You made this record originally but we can’t have your name on it.’ I asked them why not and they said: ‘Well, you didn’t produce the final thing.’ I said, ‘I produced the original and what you should do is have a credit saying: “Produced by George Martin, over-produced by Phil Spector”.’ They didn’t think that was a good idea.
According to the Beatles Interview Database 2004, Beatles producer George Martin said Phil Spector's "overproduced remix" was "uncharacteristic" of the Beatles. According to songwriter Paul McCartney, his "long and winding road" was inspired by B842, a thirty-one mile (50 km) road in Scotland that winds along the east coast of Kintyre into Campbeltown, and part of the eighty-two mile (133 km) drive from Lochgilphead.[6] In an interview in 1994, McCartney described the lyric as "a rather sad song. I like writing sad songs, it's a good bag to get into because you can actually acknowledge some deeper feelings of your...
According to the Beatles Interview Database 2004, Beatles producer George Martin said Phil Spector's "overproduced remix" was "uncharacteristic" of the Beatles. According to songwriter Paul McCartney, his "long and winding road" was inspired by B842, a thirty-one mile (50 km) road in Scotland that winds along the east coast of Kintyre into Campbeltown, and part of the eighty-two mile (133 km) drive from Lochgilphead.[6] In an interview in 1994, McCartney described the lyric as "a rather sad song. I like writing sad songs, it's a good bag to get into because you can actually acknowledge some deeper feelings of your own and put them in it. It's a good vehicle, it saves having to go to a psychiatrist."
Nevertheless, the Spector version went on to become the group's twentieth and final US #1 hit.
McCartney: I was a bit flipped out and tripped out at that time. It’s a sad song because it’s all about the unattainable; the door you never quite reach. This is the road that you never get to the end of.
McCartney: I just sat down at my piano in Scotland, started playing and came up with that song, imagining it was going to be done by someone like Ray Charles. I have always found inspiration in the calm beauty of Scotland and again it proved the place where I found inspiration.
McCartney: It’s rather a sad song. I like writing sad songs, it’s a good bag to get into because you can actually acknowledge some deeper feelings of your own and put them in it. It’s a good vehicle, it saves having to go to a psychiatrist.
Martin: That made me angry - and it made Paul even angrier, because neither he nor I knew about it till it had been done. It happened behind our backs because it was done when Allen Klein was running John. He’d organized Phil Spector and I think George and Ringo had gone along with it. They’d actually made an arrangement with EMI and said, ‘This is going to be our record.’
Martin: EMI came to me and said, ‘You made this record originally but we can’t have your name on it.’ I asked them why not and they said: ‘Well, you didn’t produce the final thing.’ I said, ‘I produced the original and what you should do is have a credit saying: “Produced by George Martin, over-produced by Phil Spector”.’ They didn’t think that was a good idea.
According to the Beatles Interview Database 2004, Beatles producer George Martin said Phil Spector's "overproduced remix" was "uncharacteristic" of the Beatles. According to songwriter Paul McCartney, his "long and winding road" was inspired by B842, a thirty-one mile (50 km) road in Scotland that winds along the east coast of Kintyre into Campbeltown, and part of the eighty-two mile (133 km) drive from Lochgilphead.[6] In an interview in 1994, McCartney described the lyric as "a rather sad song. I like writing sad songs, it's a good bag to get into because you can actually acknowledge some deeper feelings of your...
According to the Beatles Interview Database 2004, Beatles producer George Martin said Phil Spector's "overproduced remix" was "uncharacteristic" of the Beatles. According to songwriter Paul McCartney, his "long and winding road" was inspired by B842, a thirty-one mile (50 km) road in Scotland that winds along the east coast of Kintyre into Campbeltown, and part of the eighty-two mile (133 km) drive from Lochgilphead.[6] In an interview in 1994, McCartney described the lyric as "a rather sad song. I like writing sad songs, it's a good bag to get into because you can actually acknowledge some deeper feelings of your own and put them in it. It's a good vehicle, it saves having to go to a psychiatrist."
Nevertheless, the Spector version went on to become the group's twentieth and final US #1 hit.