Paul McCartney Meets Melanie Coe, Who Later Inspired The Beatles' "She's Leaving Home"

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"She's Leaving Home" is a song, written by John Lennon and Paul McCartney and released in 1967 on The Beatles album Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band. McCartney wrote and sang the verse and Lennon the chorus. This was one of a handful of songs of The Beatles in which the members did not play any instruments.

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."

The newspaper story McCartney mentioned was from the front page of the Daily Mirror, about a girl named Melanie Coe. Although McCartney made up most of the content, Coe, who was 17 at the time claims that he got most of it right. Her parents wondered why she had left... "She has everything here." In real life, Melanie did not "meet a man from the motor trade", but instead a croupier, and left in the afternoon while her parents were at work. She was found ten days later because she had let slip where her boyfriend worked.

Coincidentally, Coe had met McCartney three years earlier when she was a contestant and prize winner on ITV's Ready Steady Go!. An update on Melanie appeared in the Daily Mail in May 2008.

Brenda Lee is the second studio album by American pop and country artist Brenda Lee. The album was released August 1, 1960 on Decca Records and was produced by Owen Bradley. The album's second single "Sweet Nothin's" became Lee's first major hit single on the Billboard Hot 100, peaking within the Top 10. This was followed by the third single "I'm Sorry" released the following year that became her first single to top the Billboard Hot 100.

The album's first single "Let's Jump the Broomstick" was released in April 1959. While it did not chart in the United States, the track did chart in the United Kingdom, peaking at #12 on the UK Singles Chart. "Sweet Nothin's" was released as the album's official second single in September 1959, becoming her first single to reach the Top 40 on the Billboard Hot 100, peaking at #4. In addition, the song also reached the same position on the UK Singles Chart. The third and final single released was the opening track of the album "I'm Sorry", which became Lee's first song to reach #1 on the Billboard Hot 100, while also reaching #12 in the United Kingdom. "I'm Sorry's" B-side also gained significant radio airplay in 1960 and the song entitled "That's All You Gotta Do" peaked at #6 on the on the Billboard Hot 100. Both the songs "Sweet Nothin's" and "That's All You Gotta Do" also peaked within the Top 10 and 20 on the Billboard R&B music chart in 1960, reaching #12 and #19 respectively. Brenda Lee was officially released on August 1, 1960, peaking at #5 on the Billboard 200 albums chart, becoming one of three albums released to peak within the Top 10 on the Billboard 200 list.

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[LODGE4444]

This is an incredible coincidence.

[Paulmaclover1234]

aww this is too adorable. Paul looks so cute when he gives the prize to her. if that were me i would have given paul the hugest hug, and a kiss. <3 MWA! love u Paul<#!

[steverut47]

Melanie was on the show because her mum was a close friend of Vicky Wickam, the producer.

[steverut47]

The reason that Melanie was on the show was that her mother was a friend of Vickie Wickham, the producer of 'Ready Steady Go'.

[mrstevehartman]

Paul got some leg that night, for sure !

[PaulSaysShezam]

I would've just stood there in absolute shock. x]

[RadicalRay100]

All the girls except for Melanie were ugly.

[geligama]

I'm sorry guys, it really is!

[geligama]

Do you really think this girl is the same as "She's Leaving Home"? I don't think so.

[jimidee33]

Interesting tale and great coincidence. I think Paul picked her because she was the cutest!