It couldn't happen to a better song. Linda Ronstadt's finest hour, 'Long, Long Time,' is in the spotlight thanks to HBO's 'The Last of Us.'
, series co-creator and episode writer Craig Mazin explained how Sunday's episode — also titled"Long, Long Time" — came to use the Ronstadt song to underscore the love story of Bill, played by Nick Offerman, and Murray Bartlett's Frank, recalling a conversation he had with fellow writer Neil Druckmann.
"I remember saying to Neil, ‘I’m not sure what the song is, I just know that it has to be this incredibly sad song about yearning for love, and never getting love, and just making your peace with the fact that you will always be alone. But it can’t be on the nose. And it can’t be a song that we all know.'”As he told Indie Wire,"I played it and was like, ‘Oh, my. There it is.'”"Long, Long Time" turned out to be a perfect choice on all counts.
The baroque-pop ballad opens with dramatic strings, pulling back to reveal an acoustic guitar and Ronstadt exercising pure restraint with a vulnerable reading of"Love will abide, take things in stride" before letting the full power of her voice be felt on"Sounds like good advice but there's no one at my side."
The strings return for an instrumental break coming out of the chorus and stay to underscore her vocal on much of what follows as she taps into the desperation of the situation on that final chorus hook:"Cause I've done everything I know to try and make you mine. And I think I'm gonna love you for a long, long time."
Released in 1970, the single peaked at No. 25 on Billboard's Hot 100 chart, earning Ronstadt her first Grammy nomination in the bargain.
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