"Long and Winding Road" PID related?

[jerriwillmore]

I've read in People it is supposed to be about Jane Asher, but some seem to think it could be about Sir Paul singing about his predesessor. He said himself, "it is more than just a song." What do you think?



The long and winding road
That leads to your door
Will never disappear
I’ve seen that road before
It always leads me her
Lead me to you door

The wild and windy night
That the rain washed away
Has left a pool of tears
Crying for the day
Why leave me standing here
Let me know the way

Many times I’ve been alone
And many times I’ve cried
Any way you’ll never know
The many ways I’ve tried

But still they lead me back
To the long winding road
You left me standing here
A long long time ago
Don’t leave me waiting here
Lead me to your door

But still they lead me back
To the long winding road
You left me standing here
A long long time ago
Don’t leave me waiting here
Lead me to your door
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
beatles lyrics

[LOVELYRITA]

I was wondering if that was an originally JPM's lyrics.....and not Faul's

[mciiii]

Some facts i found about the song

Supposed the inspiration for 'The Long And Winding Road' came from the B842, which runs from Paul McCartney's farm at High Park, Scotland, sixteen miles along the east coast of Kintyre to Campbeltown, the nearest town to the farm.

This song was offered to Tom Jones in 1968 on the condition it be his next single. He had "Delilah" set for release so he turned down the offer. www.mmguide.musicmatch.com/whatsup/whatsup.cgi?s=6degrees&a=0201_beatles&p=6

McCartney recorded a quick demo version of the song, with Beatles engineer Alan Brown assisting, sometime in September of 1968, during the recording sessions for The White Album.

"The Fool on the Hill"
"She's Leaving Home"
"The Long and Winding Road"
4:08:25

On the FAAB video one image with three meanings, maybe the clue is the three songs are JPM?

[Doc]

mciiii said:

Some facts i found about the song

Supposed the inspiration for 'The Long And Winding Road' came from the B842, which runs from Paul McCartney's farm at High Park, Scotland, sixteen miles along the east coast of Kintyre to Campbeltown, the nearest town to the farm.

This song was offered to Tom Jones in 1968 on the condition it be his next single. He had "Delilah" set for release so he turned down the offer. www.mmguide.musicmatch.com/whatsup/whatsup.cgi?s=6degrees&a=0201_beatles&p=6

McCartney recorded a quick demo version of the song, with Beatles engineer Alan Brown assisting, sometime in September of 1968, during the recording sessions for The White Album.

"The Fool on the Hill"
"She's Leaving Home"
"The Long and Winding Road"
4:08:25

On the FAAB video one image with three meanings, maybe the clue is the three songs are JPM?

Intriguing thought there, MCIII

[beatlies]

Does Faul have any songwriting ability at all? That would be an amazing coincidence for a professional secret police agent and mimic to also happen to be a brilliantly talented songwriter. We can reasonably infer that whoever wrote this song it was not Faul.

[plastic paul]

Original response to something else!

"Wow beatlies, i had never heard that before.

That's mind blowing!"

Now my response is the stock "I agree"

;D

[beatlies]

Hey Plastic Paul I just modified my post about Lennon above --I can't confirm it. So forget about that for now please !

[mciiii]

i found this other facts about TLAWR on the web, who makes me think is a JPM song:

"The song structure is equally sophisticated: while the opening theme is repeated throughout, the song lacks a traditional chorus, and the melody and lyrics are considerably ambiguous about the opening stanza's position in the song; it is unclear whether the song has just begun, is in the verse, or even is in the bridge. This ambiguity has been a characteristic of other Beatles songs, such as "She Loves You.""

and about "SLY":

PAUL 1963: "John and I wrote it together. We were in a van up in Newcastle somewhere, and we'd just gone over to our hotel. I originally got an idea of doing one of those answering songs, where a couple of us sing about 'she loves you' ...and the other one sort of says the 'yes, yes' bit. You know, 'yeah yeah' answering whoever is saying it. But we decided that was a crummy idea anyway. But we had the idea to write a song called 'She Loves You' then. And we just sat up in the hotel bedroom for a few hours and wrote it, you know."

JOHN 1980: "It was written together (with Paul) and I don't remember how. I remember it was Paul's idea-- instead of singing 'I love you' again, we'd have a third party. The 'Woooo' was taken from the Isley Brothers 'Twist And Shout,' which we stuck into everything."

[LOVELYRITA]

I, too, think that these songs were JPM's, and not Bill's compositions.
If we have accurate historical accounts, Bill's compositions are "Silly Love Songs"......think about it.

[lili]

I think that Long & Winding Road & She's Leaving Home are Paul's. He's the person singing She's Leaving Home on Sgt. Pepper.
The Fool on the Hill was most likely written by John. I would guess that he might've even had some help from George & Mal Evans.
Rita, you are so right about Bill & " Silly Love Songs " !

[LOVELYRITA]

The falsetto in She's Leaving Home is more like the Here, THere and Everywhere sound rather than the Honey Pie Faulsetto of Bill's.

[lili]

When Paul sang higher, it was always with great feeling. When Bill does, it's usually rather campy.
Except for " I Will". In that song, it seems that he is purposely emulating Paul's style to a "T". Someone on another forum once said that is his greatest "masterpiece". I have to agree with that.

[plastic paul]

And I have to agree with you lili! Deffo.

(Disclaimer: apart from the campy bit! ;D)

[lili]

P.P. ;D

[plastic paul]

I don't often agree totally with you!

I feel the talk talk about how bill is camp/gay/paedo etc is totally uncalled for, when you talk sense I agree!

As I did

;D