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Paul McCartney:
John and I wrote ‘She’s Leaving Home’ together. It was my inspiration. We’d seen a story in the newspaper about a young girl who’d left home and not been found, there were a lot of those at the time, and that was enough to give us a story line. So I started to get the lyrics: she slips out and leaves a note and then the parents wake up … It was rather poignant. I like it as a song, and when I showed it to John, he added the long sustained notes, and one of the nice things about the structure of the song is that it stays on those chords endlessly. Before that period in our song-writing we would have changed chords but it stays on the C chord. It really holds you. It’s a really nice little trick and I think it worked very well.
While I was showing that to John, he was doing the Greek chorus, the parents’ view: ‘We gave her most of our lives, we gave her everything money could buy.’ I think that may have been in the runaway story, it might have been a quote from the parents. Then there’s the famous little line about a man from the motor trade; people have since said that was Terry Doran, who was a friend who worked in a car showroom, but it was just fiction, like the sea captain in “Yellow Submarine”, they weren’t real people.[1]
John and I wrote ‘She’s Leaving Home’ together. It was my inspiration. We’d seen a story in the newspaper about a young girl who’d left home and not been found, there were a lot of those at the time, and that was enough to give us a story line. So I started to get the lyrics: she slips out and leaves a note and then the parents wake up … It was rather poignant. I like it as a song, and when I showed it to John, he added the long sustained notes, and one of the nice things about the structure of the song is that it stays on those chords endlessly. Before that period in our song-writing we would have changed chords but it stays on the C chord. It really holds you. It’s a really nice little trick and I think it worked very well.
While I was showing that to John, he was doing the Greek chorus, the parents’ view: ‘We gave her most of our lives, we gave her everything money could buy.’ I think that may have been in the runaway story, it might have been a quote from the parents. Then there’s the famous little line about a man from the motor trade; people have since said that was Terry Doran, who was a friend who worked in a car showroom, but it was just fiction, like the sea captain in “Yellow Submarine”, they weren’t real people.[1]
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Playpet wrote:
One of the few songs that has ever made me tear up. Shit gets emotional, yo
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nybbon wrote:
Perhaps the best song on Sgt. Pepper.
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myonlyweakness wrote:
So beautiful!
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felghen wrote:
:o
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ravenclaw94 wrote:
This is a fantastic song.
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WWOMENN wrote:
ideally, like a million ♥ ♥ ♥
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Feeh- wrote:
beautiful beautiful beautiful BEAUTIFUL [3]
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upesupernova wrote:
this is just heartbreaking, and extremely beatiful. I don't understand how people could hate it.
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brrruno_ wrote:
beautiful beautiful beautiful BEAUTIFUL [2]
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kemp678 wrote:
Fab!!!
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2morrowww wrote:
beautiful beautiful beautiful BEAUTIFUL
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oldiesfanjohn wrote:
and the double vocals,brilliant
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oldiesfanjohn wrote:
strings and harp always get me on this
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AlCapwnUK wrote:
definitely inspired by the beach boys and Brian Wilson but still good.
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jimgravy845 wrote:
It's my Mum's favourite, for whatever that's worth...
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jackcarr wrote:
Erm, massive shout, but their best song?
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Plastic-Camera wrote:
;__;
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pauljinks wrote:
still astonishes me after 100s of listens
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richardneal wrote:
one of John & Paul's best vocal moments together on the chorus
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sls wrote:
Yeah, mono version is at a faster tempo.
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