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Orchestral pop songs

  • She's Leaving HomePaul McCartney read a newspaper article in 1963 about a seventeen-year-old named Melanie Coe. She ran away from her home on Stamford Hill and vanished into…
  • A Day in the LifeJohn Lennon wrote the melody and most of the lyrics to A Day in the Life in mid-January 1967. He presented the song to Paul McCartney shortly after finishing…