Yellow Submarine - The Long and Winding Road Mystery Cache
Yellow Submarine - The Long and Winding Road
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The Long and Winding Road
"The Long and Winding Road" is a ballad written by Paul McCartney and is credited to Lennon-McCartney. It is the tenth track on the Beatles' album Let It Be. It became the group's 20th and last number-one song in the United States on 13 June 1970, and was the last single released by the quartet while all four remained alive. "The Long and Winding Road" was listed with "For You Blue" as a double-sided hit when the single hit number one on the US Billboard Hot 100 in 1970. The Beatles recorded "The Long and Winding Road" on 26 and 31 January 1969, the day after the group's legendary final performance on the roof of their Apple headquarters, with McCartney on piano, John Lennon on bass guitar, George Harrison on guitar, Ringo Starr on drums, and Billy Preston on Hammond organ. This was during a series of sessions for an album project then known as Get Back. Lennon, who played bass only occasionally, made several mistakes on the recording. Some writers, such as Ian MacDonald, have postulated that the disenchanted Lennon's ragged bass playing was purposeful. In May 1969, Glyn Johns, who had been asked to mix the Get Back album by the Beatles, selected the 26 January recording as the best version of the song. The Beatles had recorded a master version as part of the 'Apple studio performance' on 31 January, which contained a different lyrical and musical structure, but this version was not chosen for release. In the spring of 1970, Lennon and the Beatles' manager, Allen Klein, turned over the recordings to Phil Spector with the hope of salvaging an album, which was then titled Let It Be. Spector made various changes to the songs, but his most dramatic embellishments occurred on 1 April 1970, when he turned his attention to "The Long and Winding Road". When McCartney first heard the Spector version of the song, he was outraged. Nine days after Spector had overdubbed "The Long and Winding Road", McCartney formally announced the Beatles' breakup. On 14 April, he sent a sharply worded letter to Apple Records business manager Allen Klein, demanding that the inclusion of the harp be eliminated and that the other added instrumentation be reduced. McCartney concluded the letter with the words: "Don't ever do it again."
The controversy surrounding the song did not prevent a chart-topping single from being released in the United States on 11 May 1970, joined by "For You Blue" on the B-side. 1.2 million copies were sold in the first two days, and the song began its ten-week long chart run on 23 May. On 13 June, it became the Beatles' twentieth and final number one single in America. "The Long and Winding Road" brought the curtain down on the Beatles' six years of domination in America that began with "I Want to Hold Your Hand" in 1964. The Beatles achieved twenty number one singles in a mere space of 74 months, achieving an average of one number one single per 3.7 months.
Answer the following question for the correct coords.
On 13 June 1970, "The Long and Winding Road" became the Beatles' twentieth and final number one single in what country?
Germany - N 30 21.628 W 082 33.626
United Kingdom - N 30 21.561 W 082 33.319
Canada - N 30 20.992 W 082 32.913
America - N 30 21.260 W 082 33.094
Japan - N 30 21.455 W 082 33.256
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FINAL N 30° 21.260′ W 82° 33.094
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SVANY A 30° 21.260′ J 82° 33.094
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