The Beatles - Long and Winding Road Traditional Cache
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The Beatles - Long and Winding Road
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A quick drive by on a rural road out of Knottingley, this cache is a unique micro so you will need to bring your own pen or pencil. This cache is located near a large gated entrance to the fields which can provide off road parking for at least one vehicle without obstructing the gate. This has been created as part of a series with a play on words on The Beatles songs so please don’t expect any marvelous views, particularly as most of this view is the M62.
Welcome to the next in our new series combining the 2 greatest loves of Mrs DB (except Mr and Little DB of course), starting with The Magical Mystery Tour which we hope will start you on your own magical tour of Knottingley and the surrounding area. My love of The Beatles and their music started many years ago whilst studying GCSE Music. Part of the qualification required studying some set pieces of music for which the Teacher had picked the option of 4 tracks from The Beatles Magical Mystery Tour album; Strawberry Field Forever, Penny Lane, The Fool on the Hill, and Hello, Goodbye.
The Beatles, Paul McCartney (bass guitar, vocals), John Lennon (rhythms guitar, vocals), George Harrison (lead guitar, vocals) and eventually Ringo Starr (drums, vocals) I'm sure need no introduction as being such a popular and probably the most covered rock band in the world, and from our very own Liverpool,UK. Rooted in Skiffle and later working in many genres ranging from pop ballads to psychedelic rock, often incorporating classical and other elements to eventually develop a sound that combined rhythm and blues, and a bit of country and western. A full complete (and I believe fascinating) history of the group can be found at: (visit link)
The Long and Winding Road, sung and written by Paul McCartney attributed to Lennon/McCartney, from the album Let It Be and released as a single only in the US on 11 May 1970 where the song took The Beatles to number one in the charts, last time.
Paul wrote the song at his farm where he found inspiration in the calm beauty of Scotland, and was inspired by the growing tension in The Beatles.
The "long and winding road" of the song was claimed to have been inspired by the B842, a thirty-one mile (50 km) winding road in Scotland, running along the east coast of Kintyre into Campbeltown, and part of the eighty-two mile (133 km) drive from Lochgilphead. In an interview in 1994, McCartney described the lyric more obliquely:
FTF goes to desertfoxuk, well done guys and hope to maybe meet you sometime.
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