It was 51 years ago Sunday (June 13th, 1970) that the Beatles' "The Long And Winding Road" became the group's 20th and final Number One hit. It was also on this date that the single's parent album, Let It Be, also hit Number One and began the first of its four-week run on top of the Billboard 200 chart. The song was written by Paul McCartney in late-1968, and was recorded in January 1969 during the sessions for the group's album and film Let It Be. "The Long And Winding Road" was inspired by the long drive to his Scottish farm. McCartney talked about the song in his 1997 authorized biography Many Years From Now, saying, "It's a rather sad song. I like writing sad songs because you can actually acknowledge some deeper feelings of your own and put them in." "The Long And Winding Road" was recorded by engineer/producer Glyn Johns on January 31st, 1969, the day after the group's legendary final performance on the roof of
Lennon continued: “But [it wasn’t like] going to a Zen monastery and going to India to meditate.
“Or going to Scotland and growing melons or something, whatever they’re doing up there in that place.”
Elvis Presley died on August 16, 1977, at the age of 42 and would have been 86-years-old this year.
While just two days after giving this interview Lennon was murdered on December 8, 1980.
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The Beatles and Elvis famously met in 1965 when The King invited the Fab Four to his LA home during the time in his life when he was busy making tons of Hollywood movies.
The story goes that The Beatles were speechless at seeing their idol that Elvis had to break the ice by saying he’d have to go to bed if they didn’t talk to him.
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Paul McCartney To Release Memoir In November
The former Beatle s upcoming book, “The Lyrics: 1956 to the Present,” will trace his life through 154 songs.
Hillel Italie
NEW YORK (AP) Paul McCartney is finally ready to write his memoirs, and will use music and a Pulitzer Prize-winning poet to help guide him.
“The Lyrics: 1956 to the Present” will be released Nov. 2, according to a joint announcement Wednesday from the British publisher Allen Lane and from Liveright in the United States.
McCartney, 78, will trace his life through 154 songs, from his teens and early partnership with fellow Beatle John Lennon to his solo work over the past half century. Irish poet Paul Muldoon is editing and will contribute an introduction.
“The one thing I’ve always managed to do, whether at home or on the road, is to write new songs. I know that some people, when they get to a certain age, like to go to a diary to recall day-to-day events from the past, but I have no such notebooks. What I do have are my songs, hundreds of them, which I’ve learned serve much the same purpose. And these songs span my entire life.”
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The Lyrics, which has a list price of $100, were not disclosed. Publishers have long sought a McCartney memoir, even though he has spoken often about the past and has participated in such projects as Barry Miles’ biography