Paul McCartney - She's Leaving Home (1967, 2003, 2021)
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- Опубликовано: 11 окт 2024
- One of my favorite songs by Paul McCartney from the Sgt Pepper's album, released in 1967. In some ways it sounds a bit out of place from the other material on the LP ... almost
as though it should have appeared on Revolver (1966). That's probably because of the use of strings and vocals only, very reminiscent of "Eleanor Rigby" (which, as it turns out, WAS co-written by John Lennon). Anyways, found out the inspiration was an actual case involving a local girl, Melanie Coe, who won a lip-syncing contest three years earlier where she met the Beatles and her award was handed out to her by Paul.
The details of her case were only marginally followed in the song, but one point of contention for me is the "happy ending" for the runaway in the lyrics ("she is having fun"). Of course back then many young people did leave home to join hippie communities and often did find a happier existence, at least for a time. Otherwise, and we know this today
due to the very dire, troubled age we have lived in for some decades now, runaway stories usually end very badly ... and not necessarily the more obvious ones where someone ends
up dead.
This video follows three different girls leaving home in the wee hours of the morning, each one supplying key elements in the song lyrics. Paul appears briefly in the video as well as does the orchestra used for "A Day In The Life."
Escape (2000)
Runaway Girl (2012)
Scarlett And The Man (2014)
The best tearjerker ever. My compliments for the clip.
Thanks Henk!
Fun is the one thing that money cant buy ❤❤❤
It was decades after the Beatles released this song that I learned the correct lyric is "fun" rather than "love". Once I learned that, I still thought that "love" would have been a better lyric. (What arrogance! Me thinking I know about lyrics better than the lads themselves. I'll show myself out.)
What ever the video does for you, this fabulous, haunting, timeless classic has a wonderful life of its own. Bye, bye…
Great footage for this song. Thought I was watching the official Beatles video until I read your notes!
LOL! That IS a compliment! Wish Paul or Ringo liked it that much too. Thanks Ross!
Beautiful
Thank you! Cheers!
It is what it is the beatles are at the top of there game there is nothing to compare to what they can sing or write 60 odd year's lster
Excellent video, Mike! I might steal the audio for one of my videos. ☺
Thanks Jim! As you like!
Excellent Mike, harps!
I hear Mary Hopkins from Wales here!
John or Paul, which is better?
The jury is still out on that matter. 👍😎🏴
Always loved Mary's music. I have gone through periods when I thought Paul was the best, and since about 2014, felt instead John was the best. John remained consistently great as long as The Beatles stayed together, whereas Paul actually got better than John for about a year or two (part of 1965 and all of 1966), especially doing material like Yesterday and Eleanor Rigby, Revolver album was pure genius! For me, with The Beatles mind you, this song was Paul's last great song ... and it ended up on Sgt Pepper's in '67 although it would have been at home on Revolver I think. As for their solo careers, well I think Paul proved to be the most enduring and versatile, although George did quite well too. It is hard to say as I have several of John's solo albums as well, and always loved #9 Dream.
@@mikemunrowsretro8973 Just shared to where I am in USA, Mike, on the online cloud, with my Welsh poetry, as one does. 👍 Happy St. David's Day tomorrow Wednesday. Chillspot1 ~ Zebediah. 😎
(and remember, Ringo was good narrating Thomas the tank engine, I have a photo here of Ringo being a redcoat in Butlins, in Pwllheli, in North-west Wales! 1959, those were the days, with David Essex, alike) 👍😎
@@huwzebediahthomas9193 Thanks so much Huw! Like poetry too, I used to write it, from 1977 to 2001, got it published in small press magazines, some larger ones, and newspapers. Been too busy online since, no time to write, may go back to it again. Don't know much about online cloud, but have Chillspot1 bookmarked! Thanks!
John with his Norwegian Wood - wonder what exactly went on there, in some dingy London/Liverpool flat? 🙂
Well, we know he was "had" by her, ha ha, whoever she was. Nice erotic sitar, courtesy of George. Song surely was ahead of its time or else right on time!
Timeless. Always loved the line, “Meeting a man from the motor trade”.
@@eugeneflynn7435’The man from the motor trade’ was Terry Doran, a friend of The Beatles’. He had a Rolls Royce dealership in Feltham, Middlesex, and supplied them to The Beatles. I bought a car from there - when it had become a Fiat dealership!
‘A man from the motor trade’ is NOT a reference to a backstreet abortionist - or anything else.
@@johnsurrey7426 Hi John, thanks for that. I never read anything much into the lyrics. I had assumed that she was going to buy a car and take off into her new life. I've never heard of, or entertained the idea of, a backstreet deal of any sort. Is that an interpretation that has been tossed around? It was very cool, and nice of you, to identify Terry Doran and touch on your connection with the dealership. On another note, I've recently moved to Portugal from the USA, and was just corresponding with a friend about doing a Beatles pilgrimage when I get a chance to visit the UK. I have some research to do, but I'd like to do it right, so visits to Liverpool, Woolton, and London would be on the schedule.