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Sounds way closer to mono (though it's not entirely) versus the album, and the instruments have a distinctly different balance. I think they were going for more 'pop' ... not the music style but the dynamics. And of course it lacks the intro fade-in.
It's not that it's bad, per se, still an amazing song. But it was enough different that I noticed it when I heard it on the radio after hearing it like 10 times at my dads over a weekend as a little kid 
And a huge lover of the rock and roll music 
Might be the production was altered to appeal more to different listeners or different demographics? You have a point there.
I remember thinking this back when Taylor Swift came out with “Romeo and Juliet”. I had heard the “pop” version played only, until I was at a friend’s house one day who had the country radio station on and the version they played really upped the slide guitars and banjo, which can hardly be heard at all in the pop radio version.
How nice that this brings back good memories of being at your dad’s and listening to the music he played. He sounds like a neat guy.
