SHE’S LEAVING HOME
“She’s Leaving Home” is a Lennon–McCartney song, released in 1967 on the Beatles album Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band. Paul McCartney wrote and sang the verse and John Lennon wrote the chorus, which they sang together. Neither George Harrison nor Ringo Starr was involved in the recording. The song’s instrumental background was performed entirely by a small string orchestra arranged by Mike Leander, and was one of only a handful of Beatles songs in which the members did not play any instruments on the recording. (More from Wikipedia)
The inspiration for some of the songs on Sgt. Pepper came from something they had heard or seen: John Lennon adapted “Good Morning Good Morning” from a commercial for Kellogg’s Corn Flakes; and Paul McCartney wrote “She’s Leaving Home” after reading about teenage runaways in an article in The Daily Telegraph.
(June 2015)
