It was written by Paul McCartney, rejected by Tom Jones and sang by the Beatles

In the midst of the Beatles crisis, Paul McCartney composed “The Long and Winding Road“, an emotional ballad in which he has the preponderance of the piano and a lyrics that speaks to the end of a relationship. The musician wrote this song in 1969 and originally did not conceive it as a piece that he would play: “I just sat on the piano in Scotland, I started playing and came up with that song, imagining that I would play it by someone like Ray …