With its haunting melody and horn
section, this was one of Paul's most beautiful songs. 'For
No One' was written in a rented chalet in the Swiss ski
resort of Klosters, where Paul and Jane Asher spent a brief
holiday in March 1966. He then retuned to work on Revolver
and she began rehearsals for the role as the young Ellen
Terry in Sixty Thousand Nights at the Royal Theatre,
Bristol.
Through a series of flashbacks of
their life together, the song captures the dawning
realization that a partner's love has disappeared. In an
early interview, Paul said that it was all about his own
experience of living with a woman when he was fresh form
leaving home. Later he was less specific, saying that he was
thinking only of the character of a typical working
girl
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