10 Music Artists That Won't Defend Their Own Songs

Most of the Beatles probably would have preferred if Abbey Road were the last thing that they had ever done. Even though Let It Be was the last proper album that we got out of the Fab Four, these sessions weren't really meant to be heard by everyone, being the template for a record called Get Back that the band never got around to making. Once their label demanded one more album from them though, Phil Spector was brought in and either wrecked or saved the record depending on who you ask.

Though Paul McCartney in particular hated what Phil had done to his song the Long and Winding Road, John Lennon had a few more harsh words to say about Across the Universe. After writing it back in the days of the White Album, Lennon considered this to be one of the best songs that he ever wrote, only to never create the kind of version that he wanted to make. Even with two different versions of the song out in the world now with a revamped version for a wildlife charity, John still thinks the performances could have been better, with the rest of the band never really gelling with the rest of the song.

While Lennon has said that he still thinks that Spector did a decent job with the record, the version that we know of Across the Universe still seems to haunt him. The melody never really left him during his solo career either, since he was featured on David Bowie's eventual cover of the song to try an add something else to it. Lennon may have a lot more harsh feelings towards this song, but it wasn't because it was terrible or anything. Sometimes you just love your work too much to see it go through something like this.