This song cries out for understanding both sides. Post-war parents who struggled against backgrounds of losses and deprivation and a child wanting more space to express herself. There is no one, easy answer, only a need for love and compassion from all.
I bought this album when I was 19 and was of course stunned by its brilliance. I'm now 74 and the songs seems to have grown in stature and significance every year since when they were first released to an unsuspecting public.
I had never ever in my life thought that a Beatles song would make me cry 'till I heard this song for the first time in my life two hours ago and to this point I'm still heart broken 💔😭 I just can't believe that up to today I'd skipped on this beautiful and unbelievably sad song.
This song is a two-edged sword, the unreasonable pressures on an only child and subsequent need for secret escape, and the realization of the parents that the love and upbringing of their only child was flawed to the point of tragic separation. An extremely poignant and sensitive song by Mr. McCartney.. A story that needed to be told, and was done exceptionally by Paul.
When I 1st heard this song as a child in the early 70's, I was moved at how touching it was..now as a parent of 2 young boys, I listen and have tears in my eyes as I hope I'm doing good as a father and that my boys feel they have enough from me that when they do leave, it's not for a reason that I failed them in anyway...incredibly powerful what McCartney did with this song..from the lyrics to the drama of the strings when the mother realizes her baby is gone to John's singing of "fun is the one thing money can't buy".. these guys were the best..
This is a fictional song about a 17 year old who runs away from home to join the hippie scene in swinging London in 1967. This song was very in tune with what was happening a lot in the UK and here in America at the time. Great vocal by McCartney but what really makes it for me is Lennon's interjections on the chorus singing the role as an outsider looking in like a voyeur looking in on the situation. With his lines like "We never thought of ourselves, never a thought for our selves" and at the end when Paul hits the word "fun" and John comes back with "Fun is the one thing that money can't buy" the lyrical genius of John Lennon. Great job by both Paul and John on this song and just one of many examples of why the Lennon/McCartney partnership was and still is the greatest songwriting duo in history. ☮️✌️💕
@@DEVILdRuMMinG Not from what was said on the documentary The making of Sgt Pepper's Lonely HCB. On there it says Paul used to enjoy reading a strip in I believe was The London Times and this song came from a storyline about a 17 year old girl who ran away from home to join the hippie scene in swinging London. They even showed a photocopy of the original strip that he drew the inspiration from for this song. I don't know, maybe I was having my own acid flashback and hallucinated this story during the show. I was just telling the young lady what I saw and heard. I have a copy of the show, I will have to watch it again in the near future. ☮️✌️💕
@@dougsusie2319 Hey Doug yep you it right she was a 17 year old run away but the girl did meet Paul face to face 4 years before on READY STEADY GO The girls name was Melony Cole (or Coe I think) She won a contest lip sinking to a Pattie Page song and Paul gave her a new record shook hands and walked off
When genuine love turns into a chain, defeating the purpose of parental love itself, parenthood becoming the false reason for people's existences and, by becoming a love object for them to justify their lives, the child ends up supporting the parents in their failure to become fully adult. The daughter here can't do that anymore. She knows it's wrong and so she gently leaves. This is a devastating critique of corrupted parental love, but without the bitterness of today's SJWs. It's too mature for that. It's just a complex mixture of hope, sadness, lament, and beauty. We were big on that back then. I was born in 1953. I grew up with the Beatles. I lived just over the hills from Liverpool so I identified with them strongly. They were truly great artists, not just pop stars. Thanks for the reaction.
if there was ever such things as musical gods.the beatles certainly fit that description.even if you dont like the beatles, your favorite artist probably loves them, with good reason.
It was a time when social commentary and observation were beginning to become more predominant in the lyrics of pop music. The Beatles were on the cutting edge of this movement. With the release of 'Sgt Pepper...', they effectively left every other musical act in the dust. This song originated from an article Paul had seen. He brought the song in and he and John finished it up in the studio.
It's beautiful seeing her reaction. I was very young when this album came out. I did not appreciate this song as a kid. The longer I've lived the meaning of this song has changed . I tear up every time I hear it
This isn't just a song this is a song born of a real life situation he read about in the paper . A girl he met way back in early beatlemania the Beatles always wrote about life around them as well as personal experience.my sis and I had this happen to us caring parents so hard trying to get over The war they were there but never said I love you we never got any backing my sis and left home first chance
It's just a sad part of life ... when children grow up and leave home. Most parents aren't ready for the separation and it's sad for both sides. It's just a necessary part of growing up. The child knows they have to leave to grow up and the parents know they have to let go ... But boy is it hard!
Paul played this for Brian Wilson - they both wept also. it's not that sad though because it ends with "She's having fun - something that was always denied"
Wrong, she left because her parents weren't "fun', there is no mention of a lack of love, more than likely she was an ingrate whose parents survived WW2 and the Blitz, while she wanted to get high and party.
In the song, the parents say they gave her everything money could buy, while she is thinking "money is the one thing that money CAN'T buy!" This song is a statement about what we called "the generation gap," which led to many young people leaving their parents' home in the 60s. I was one, who "ran-away" from home at age 14 to live among the "hippie" youth that were congregating at both urban and rural locations where "the action is." It was both an adoption of hippie values and a necessary rejection of parental mainstream norms.
The “Reason” she has for leaving?? It’s right there in the final lyrics! “She’s leaving home after living alone for so many years.” No mystery. There it is.
I remember this song being a great test for audio equipment. If you had a cheap record player or loudspeakers, the harp at the beginning was distorted. 😂 My first time hearing the harp undistorted was after the invention of the CD, when using headphones on a brand new and hopelessly overpriced CD player. 😅
Als ich dieses Lied zum ersten Mal gehört habe, war ich auch total mitgenommen. Sehr gefühlvoll! Und der Gesamg ist einfach wunderschön. John's Stimme noch schöner.
Lovely , heartfelt reaction. Listen young lady, yes it weas a song, "just a song" But your emotions, they were real, as real as anything can ever be. Never regrest to fell emotion nor to share them with us...thsy help to keep us truly human...to have compassion, empathy...to feel the connection between all of us. Thank you for giving so much of yourself...
The song was Paul’s idea. The song is based on a true story he read in the newspaper. The girl’s name is Melanie Coe, she was 17 when she ran away with her boyfriend.
She was leaving to get some D. The parents thought that she had everything but she was growing up and felt ready to leave. The song is based on a story Paul read in the papers and he wrote a song about it. A few days later she talked to he parents and made the mistake of letting them know where she was. They drove over to her location, met her and hauled her into the car, kidnapping her and taking her back home.
Analyze Spoonful from the Live CReam version on Wheels of Fire. It is 16:54. The straight out playing is better than Hendrix, and any live playing by Page.
This is about the generational difference in the 60's between parents and their more adventurous children as society became more free and less oppressive
This may be true in some way but I remember it as, they read a newspaper article about a young girl who went missing and ran away. So they wrote a song about it
@@ericforman4721 that's right, the girl now lady they wrote this about has actually done an interview, she explains how close the lyrics are to her real story✌
Her parents provided everything for her except Love....they Bought her everything....and thats why she ''lived alone for so many years''....she didnt get any Love ....but she got everything else....and all she wanted was them......and they never gave her themselves......so...she left to find her own Love.
You want to KNOW why The Beatles were SO Influential?? Seeing this Lady's face speaks volumes as to how the Fab4 took the listener to another level of emotion..
Enny are you ok there? I know this songs breaks people up when they hear it for the first time. The girls name was Melony Cole (or Coe sorry for the spelling) There is a video of her telling the story about this song was about her. I would say she was kind of a poor little rich girl who's parents gave her material things but she just felt alone because they did not really spend quality time with her. That's just the way I saw it
No problem like I said the Beatles are my all time favorite group and I see you have tons of their songs to react to I got to get caught up with you this will be fun love always
This is indeed a weird white guilt fed phenomenon going on across all traditionally fair skin folk's music. Nothing wrong with it, just find the sudden abundance of reviews odd.
The back and forth between Paul and John on the chorus is just beautiful.
No crime in crying to this song. This is Paul McCartney's love of family gone to a tragic place. A masterpiece and real tear-jerker. Much love to you.
Macca wrote this aged 24! This is just an example of how great The Beatles were at songwriting
This song cries out for understanding both sides. Post-war parents who struggled against backgrounds of losses and deprivation and a child wanting more space to express herself. There is no one, easy answer, only a need for love and compassion from all.
I bought this album when I was 19 and was of course stunned by its brilliance. I'm now 74 and the songs seems to have grown in stature and significance every year since when they were first released to an unsuspecting public.
Best record ever made im 52
Don't worry. If you're reincarnated in a 1000 years, You'll still hear The Beatles.. :)
That is why the music of the The Beatles are really timeless , they are really genius and very talanted band in our history !
More than JUST a song! Paul wrote it based on an article in the Newspaper, Brilliant
This is not a popular Beatles tune but one of my favorites. There is not a wasted syllable in the entire song. The economy of lyric is masterful.
As soon as the first violin hits I'm toast.
I had never ever in my life thought that a Beatles song would make me cry 'till I heard this song for the first time in my life two hours ago and to this point I'm still heart broken 💔😭
I just can't believe that up to today I'd skipped on this beautiful and unbelievably sad song.
The harp and the strings stir emotions along the chorus and leading vocal, what a sad, sad song and a most beautiful musical arrangment! 🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏
The Beatles music is powerful and magical new generations will see how great they are as their music is timeless
Unbelievable song, but then it’s The Beatles. Harmonies incredible!
She's Leaving Home such a beautiful song. One of the best the Beatles did. Tells a complete story.
This song is a two-edged sword, the unreasonable pressures on an only child and subsequent need for secret escape, and the realization of the parents that the love and upbringing of their only child was flawed to the point of tragic separation. An extremely poignant and sensitive song by Mr. McCartney.. A story that needed to be told, and was done exceptionally by Paul.
Beautiful
It's brilliantly ambiguous. We know one thing. The parents were blindsided. This speaks to poor communication. It's so very sad.
@@boxsterman77 Many.. almost want to say all.. have their own secret thoughts they never share.....
Masterpiece!
A fully realized song of generational breakdown. Beautiful arrangement by Mike Leander. I love the lyrical homonyms by, buy and bye. A classic!
Thank you beautiful lady stay blessed
A very special song from a very special album by a very special band.
Not a lot of people can make it through this song w/out tearing up.
When I 1st heard this song as a child in the early 70's, I was moved at how touching it was..now as a parent of 2 young boys, I listen and have tears in my eyes as I hope I'm doing good as a father and that my boys feel they have enough from me that when they do leave, it's not for a reason that I failed them in anyway...incredibly powerful what McCartney did with this song..from the lyrics to the drama of the strings when the mother realizes her baby is gone to John's singing of "fun is the one thing money can't buy".. these guys were the best..
I always thought it was "love is the one thing money can't buy" but it does seem that "fun" is the actual lyric
This is a fictional song about a 17 year old who runs away from home to join the hippie scene in swinging London in 1967. This song was very in tune with what was happening a lot in the UK and here in America at the time. Great vocal by McCartney but what really makes it for me is Lennon's interjections on the chorus singing the role as an outsider looking in like a voyeur looking in on the situation. With his lines like "We never thought of ourselves, never a thought for our selves" and at the end when Paul hits the word "fun" and John comes back with "Fun is the one thing that money can't buy" the lyrical genius of John Lennon. Great job by both Paul and John on this song and just one of many examples of why the Lennon/McCartney partnership was and still is the greatest songwriting duo in history. ☮️✌️💕
Not fictional, no. It's based on an actual person.
@@DEVILdRuMMinG Not from what was said on the documentary The making of Sgt Pepper's Lonely HCB. On there it says Paul used to enjoy reading a strip in I believe was The London Times and this song came from a storyline about a 17 year old girl who ran away from home to join the hippie scene in swinging London. They even showed a photocopy of the original strip that he drew the inspiration from for this song. I don't know, maybe I was having my own acid flashback and hallucinated this story during the show. I was just telling the young lady what I saw and heard. I have a copy of the show, I will have to watch it again in the near future. ☮️✌️💕
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@@dougsusie2319 Hey Doug yep you it right she was a 17 year old run away but the girl did meet Paul face to face 4 years before on READY STEADY GO The girls name was Melony Cole (or Coe I think) She won a contest lip sinking to a Pattie Page song and Paul gave her a new record shook hands and walked off
Such a beautiful Victorian sounding song and who would think it was about a girl contemplating becoming a swinger hippie druggy chic ?
Fun is the only thing money can't buy...
There's s very hard edge to this song. It's beautiful but chilling.
When genuine love turns into a chain, defeating the purpose of parental love itself, parenthood becoming the false reason for people's existences and, by becoming a love object for them to justify their lives, the child ends up supporting the parents in their failure to become fully adult. The daughter here can't do that anymore. She knows it's wrong and so she gently leaves. This is a devastating critique of corrupted parental love, but without the bitterness of today's SJWs. It's too mature for that. It's just a complex mixture of hope, sadness, lament, and beauty. We were big on that back then. I was born in 1953. I grew up with the Beatles. I lived just over the hills from Liverpool so I identified with them strongly. They were truly great artists, not just pop stars. Thanks for the reaction.
Beautiful reaction, fantastic song from this great band ❤
A song made in heaven ! God bless you Paul
They gave her everything money could buy, but not enough love and understanding.
A classic by a genius Paul with the Beatles❤
I loved this song when l was young. It moved me to tears. A musical narrative of my life feeling unloved.😪
I love the Beatles. This is one of many reasons why.
if there was ever such things as musical gods.the beatles certainly fit that description.even if you dont like the beatles, your favorite artist probably loves them, with good reason.
It’s all about love and loss, it always is. Lovely😢
Beatles for ever!!!!!
It was a time when social commentary and observation were beginning to become more predominant in the lyrics of pop music. The Beatles were on the cutting edge of this movement. With the release of 'Sgt Pepper...', they effectively left every other musical act in the dust. This song originated from an article Paul had seen. He brought the song in and he and John finished it up in the studio.
It's beautiful seeing her reaction.
I was very young when this album came out. I did not appreciate this song as a kid.
The longer I've lived the meaning of this song has changed .
I tear up every time I hear it
Love is something that can't be bought. It is priceless.
This isn't just a song this is a song born of a real life situation he read about in the paper . A girl he met way back in early beatlemania the Beatles always wrote about life around them as well as personal experience.my sis and I had this happen to us caring parents so hard trying to get over The war they were there but never said I love you we never got any backing my sis and left home first chance
What a beautiful reaction from a beautiful woman with a beautiful soul! The Beatles was pure geniuses.Period.
Beatles are brilliant and hypnotizing 🐞🐞🐞🐞+🍎🍏🍎🍏= Beatles
It's just a sad part of life ... when children grow up and leave home. Most parents aren't ready for the separation and it's sad for both sides. It's just a necessary part of growing up. The child knows they have to leave to grow up and the parents know they have to let go ... But boy is it hard!
Paul played this for Brian Wilson - they both wept also.
it's not that sad though because it ends with "She's having fun - something that was always denied"
É a 3a que chora ao ouvir o filho de Mother Mary cantar essa obra prima.
one of my faves from srg peppers
They, her parents, gave her 'everything that money can buy'... Except the love that she craved.
Wrong, she left because her parents weren't "fun', there is no mention of a lack of love, more than likely she was an ingrate whose parents survived WW2 and the Blitz, while she wanted to get high and party.
Always tutch me this song because I can feel percent's pain
In the song, the parents say they gave her everything money could buy, while she is thinking "money is the one thing that money CAN'T buy!" This song is a statement about what we called "the generation gap," which led to many young people leaving their parents' home in the 60s. I was one, who "ran-away" from home at age 14 to live among the "hippie" youth that were congregating at both urban and rural locations where "the action is."
It was both an adoption of hippie values and a necessary rejection of parental mainstream norms.
Fantastic talent
You have to push them away as long as they know you love them and they are welcome home
I saw them in 1060 before they were famous
Ringo was the drummer at my local dance hall
Eleanor Rigby might be another tune you would be interested in listening to, as the emotional aspect is similar.
Thank you for sharing!
Just quality.
The “Reason” she has for leaving?? It’s right there in the final lyrics! “She’s leaving home after living alone for so many years.” No mystery. There it is.
been there, did it....rough memories
I remember this song being a great test for audio equipment. If you had a cheap record player or loudspeakers, the harp at the beginning was distorted. 😂 My first time hearing the harp undistorted was after the invention of the CD, when using headphones on a brand new and hopelessly overpriced CD player. 😅
The single harp was doubled-up in post-production.
"Fun is the one thing that money can't buy"
It's the Death of a loved one 😢
Als ich dieses Lied zum ersten Mal gehört habe, war ich auch total mitgenommen. Sehr gefühlvoll! Und der Gesamg ist einfach wunderschön. John's Stimme noch schöner.
This is only one of two Beatles songs that they never played an instrument on the other is Eleanor Rigby
Lovely , heartfelt reaction. Listen young lady, yes it weas a song, "just a song" But your emotions, they were real, as real as anything can ever be. Never regrest to fell emotion nor to share them with us...thsy help to keep us truly human...to have compassion, empathy...to feel the connection between all of us. Thank you for giving so much of yourself...
The song was Paul’s idea. The song is based on a true story he read in the newspaper. The girl’s name is Melanie Coe, she was 17 when she ran away with her boyfriend.
She was leaving to get some D. The parents thought that she had everything but she was growing up and felt ready to leave. The song is based on a story Paul read in the papers and he wrote a song about it. A few days later she talked to he parents and made the mistake of letting them know where she was. They drove over to her location, met her and hauled her into the car, kidnapping her and taking her back home.
The key to the song is "...something inside that was always denied for so many years..."
Not things. Love. Personal recognition.
Analyze Spoonful from the Live CReam version on Wheels of Fire. It is 16:54. The straight out playing is better than Hendrix, and any live playing by Page.
💕💕💕
Try and listen to this masterpiece by The Annalogues.
Good show
This is about the generational difference in the 60's between parents and their more adventurous children as society became more free and less oppressive
This may be true in some way but I remember it as, they read a newspaper article about a young girl who went missing and ran away. So they wrote a song about it
@@ericforman4721 that's right, the girl now lady they wrote this about has actually done an interview, she explains how close the lyrics are to her real story✌
You are both right
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Exactly.
'She's leaving home after LIVING ALONE FOR SO MANY YEARS'. They gave her stuff, but didn't know her...
Nice! Ichkeria!
Great reaction from a beautiful person!
only Beatle song no Beatle plays an instrument on this, imagine hearing this in '67
gun fire at 3:38
Her parents provided everything for her except Love....they Bought her everything....and thats why she ''lived alone for so many years''....she didnt get any Love ....but she got everything else....and all she wanted was them......and they never gave her themselves......so...she left to find her own Love.
You want to KNOW why The Beatles were SO Influential?? Seeing this Lady's face speaks volumes as to how the Fab4 took the listener to another level of emotion..
How cd you play a Beatles song online ??
Enny are you ok there? I know this songs breaks people up when they hear it for the first time. The girls name was Melony Cole (or Coe sorry for the spelling) There is a video of her telling the story about this song was about her. I would say she was kind of a poor little rich girl who's parents gave her material things but she just felt alone because they did not really spend quality time with her. That's just the way I saw it
I'm fine thank you, also thanks for sharing this back story with me.I appreciate 🤗
No problem like I said the Beatles are my all time favorite group and I see you have tons of their songs to react to I got to get caught up with you this will be fun love always
You are one of the few women reactions who seem to get it. Good job listening
A masterpiece of Paul and John only BrianWilson and 10CC are close to them
Video 3741 of commenting #BringBackDislikes on every unique video I watch (not dislike) in 2022.
They grow up and they leave
Fing Beatles man
I think we all know what this song is about. Beautiful off the xxx
A baby boomer, the 17 year old. Raised by the WWII generation, what went wrong?
This is indeed a weird white guilt fed phenomenon going on across all traditionally fair skin folk's music. Nothing wrong with it, just find the sudden abundance of reviews odd.
I'm leaving 'ome. just thank you