Home › Entities › musical_work_composition › The Long and Winding Road

The Long and Winding Road

original song written and composed by Lennon-McCartney
VisualArtwork musical_work_composition Q640978
Press Enter · cited answer in seconds

The Long and Winding Road

Summary

The Long and Winding Road is a musical work/composition[1]. It ranks in the top 2% of musical_work_composition entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (2,715 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • The Long and Winding Road's instance of is recorded as musical work/composition[3].
  • The Long and Winding Road's composer is recorded as John Lennon[4].
  • The Long and Winding Road's composer is recorded as Paul McCartney[5].
  • The Long and Winding Road's genre is pop music[6].
  • The Long and Winding Road was performed by The Beatles[7].
  • The Long and Winding Road is part of Let It Be[8].
  • The Long and Winding Road's language of work or name is recorded as English[9].
  • The Long and Winding Road was released on May 8, 1970[10].
  • The Long and Winding Road's lyricist is recorded as John Lennon[11].
  • The Long and Winding Road's lyricist is recorded as Paul McCartney[12].
  • The Long and Winding Road's title is recorded as {'lang': 'en', 'text': 'The Long and Winding Road'}[13].
  • The Long and Winding Road's form of creative work is recorded as song[14].

Product Details

The following facts are restated verbatim from public-domain and CC0 open-data sources — every line is independently verifiable against the named source's catalog.

MusicBrainz — CC0 open music encyclopedia

  • Release type: Song[15]

  • Genre(s): easy listening, pop, rock[16]

  • Community tags: easy listening, pop, rock[17]

  • MusicBrainz ID: 7635e382-80e0-334b-becd-9cccc8d979ed[18]

Body

Authorship and Creation

Among the performers on The Long and Winding Road was The Beatles[7].

Publication

The Long and Winding Road was published on May 8, 1970[10]. Its language of work or name is recorded as English[9]. Its genre is pop music[6]. It is part of Let It Be[8].

Why It Matters

The Long and Winding Road ranks in the top 2% of musical_work_composition entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (2,715 views/month).[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 19 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[19] It is known by 5 alternative names across languages and contexts.[20]

Related Entities

John Lennon Let It Be Paul McCartney The Beatles

References

Programmatic citations — every numbered marker resolves to a verifiable graph row below.

Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] ↑ . Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Product details (FDA / USDA / NHTSA public-domain catalog data)

  1. [15] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  2. [16] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  3. [17] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  4. [18] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [19] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [20] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

📑 Cite this page

Use these citations when quoting this entity in research, articles, AI prompts, or wherever provenance matters. We aggregate Wikidata + Wikipedia + authoritative open-data sources; the stitched, scored, cross-referenced view is what 4ort.xyz contributes.

APA 4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph. (2026). The Long and Winding Road. Retrieved May 3, 2026, from https://4ort.xyz/entity/the-long-and-winding-road
MLA “The Long and Winding Road.” 4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph, 4ort.xyz, 3 May. 2026, https://4ort.xyz/entity/the-long-and-winding-road.
BibTeX @misc{4ortxyz_the-long-and-winding-road_2026, author = {{4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph}}, title = {{The Long and Winding Road}}, year = {2026}, url = {https://4ort.xyz/entity/the-long-and-winding-road}, note = {Accessed: 2026-05-03}}
LLM prompt According to 4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph (aggregator of Wikidata, Wikipedia, and authoritative open-data sources): The Long and Winding Road — https://4ort.xyz/entity/the-long-and-winding-road (retrieved 2026-05-03)

Canonical URL: https://4ort.xyz/entity/the-long-and-winding-road · Last refreshed:

Edit History

Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 5w ago · KrBot bot · 2026-05-02 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Instance of → —
    Language of work or name → English
    Performer → The Beatles
    Form of creative work → song
    + 11 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaimvalue:1| */ [[Property:P1827]]: T0109829700, см. / see [[Template:Autofix|autofix]] на / on [[Property talk:P1827]]"
Live feed via Wikidata EventStreams. New edits appear within minutes of being made on Wikidata.