A Lennon and Mccartney masterpiece , from an album which has defined my music tastes and love of most scouse music since , this album was in our house when i was born along with other beatles stones dylan donovan etc albums and from an early age i was fascinated by Sgt peppers album cover , it was always my go to album to play as a kid not a teenager , i longed to take a pair of sissors to the inner sleeve and cut out the moustache and sgt peppers badges on the card i never did and that inner sleeve is now framed and hanging on my kitchen wall , there was something magical listening to this album as a kid , lucy in the sky with diamonds , being for the benefit of mister kite all songs written from things around the band at the time a poster a picture johns son julian had done very creative , with she’s leaving home it was a true story of a girl called melanie coe who as a teenager left home after falling pregnant it was read by paul in the daily mail

George and ringo don’t play on the track the lyrics of lennon and mccartney are joined by an orchestra again as a kid this sounded completely strange , around this time mccartney was writing film scores whilst john was playing parts in them ,
For me it’s better than yesterday hey jude and all the other mccartney classics , to have written this out of nothing a news paper clip and then score the music with a orchestra whilst in his mid twenties , is nothing short of being-remarkable


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It's beautiful. And what a story you tell. Crackerjack post!

The Beatles leave me cold. Always have. Lots of people like them, so what do I know? Thanks for posting, though.

Lovely song.
I wonder what Jeff Lynne thinks of it...

A song that upset me as a young child . Even more so than there being 4000 holes in Blackburn Lancashire.
A great track from a truly bizarre album.

Like, LL says, it's mindblowing just how good they were. Think I've said this before but McCartney could tap into the most mournful sounding melodies, it was uncanny for someone so young at the time. The sadness in this is so palpable you can almost chew it. It's a big contrast to his thumbs up smiley persona, the spooky bastard.

I think it was Paul Gambaccini who said that Macca is in the same league as Mozart for melodies.

There is essential and then there is top tier, all time classic essential and this is in the latter category. The Beatles were peerless.

    Not their biggest fan but this is a gem. Kitchen sink drama against an epic musical backdrop.
    George Martin can never get enough praise for his production work.

    .....tough one....i think I'd have to say the best of the beatles.

    The Beatles. A conundrum. I remember my mam and dad had an early copy of Please Please Me, the album. I wish I'd got my hands on that while the divorce was going off! Only Beatles record I own is an original copy of the Blue Album, which bizarrely doesn't include this track, but does contain Octopus's Garden so that's alright then.

    They were forced down our throats from a very young age and to be honest I got tired of them and cut them out for years and years. Only now am I starting to appreciate them again.

    What I like about them these days is that they weren't afraid to experiment and try new stuff and techniques. This track has no traditional pop structure or format - no drums, no bass, no middle 8, and I have to say it's acemans.

    Good pick HJ - there must be dozens of classic Beatles tracks that you could have picked but this one is out on it's own and stands the test of time almost 50 years later.

    Three years earlier before she left home , here’s melanie coe reciving her prize from Paul Mccartney

    I've said on here before that there's the beatles, and then you start arranging the rest in order after them. Other wordly genius flowed through them for a few years. Lightning in a bottle.

    No one in such a short time frame has got anywhere consistently close since. McCartney is the Isaac Newton of popular music, and when he goes, and Paul Simon goes, and Jagger/Richards go, and Dylan goes and Van Morrison and Brian Wilson goes the world will have lost irreplaceable talents.

    "She's leaving home, after living alone, for so many years". Pure Poetry.

      fuzzy I think Eleanor Rigby sets the benchmark for that.

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          So , is it a perfect 10 , 8 or 9 well that’s just fine , it was just nice to post my selection on wednesday morning