How a newspaper article inspired a song by The Beatles
October 30
12:28
2022
Inspiration can arrive at an artist in a million different ways. On one occasion, a newspaper article caught Paul McCartney’s attention and inspired him to write The Beatles’ Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band track, ‘She’s Leaving Home’.
As the song title suggests, it’s about a runaway girl that McCartney read about on February 27th, 1967. The headline of the Daily Mail read, ‘A-Level Girl Dumps Car And Vanishes,’ which got the Beatle thinking about her backstory and the series of events that possibly led to her taking such drastic action.
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