Timeline
Session Feb 25, 1969 • Recording "Old Brown Shoe", "All Things Must Pass", "Something"
Article March 1969 • The Beatles turn down 4m$ offer for four US concerts
Article March 1969 • Paul McCartney to write song for Noel Harrison
Article March 1969 • Dick James sells his Northern Songs shares to ATV
In March 1969, Paul McCartney was reportedly considering writing a song for English actor and singer Noel Harrison as a follow-up to Harrison’s hit “The Windmills of Your Mind,” but the collaboration never came to be.
From Wikipedia:
Noel John Christopher Harrison (29 January 1934 – 19 October 2013) was an English actor and singer. In the 1950s, he was a member of the British Olympic skiing team. In 1968, Harrison had a top-10 hit in the UK Singles Chart with “The Windmills of Your Mind”. He was the son of actor Rex Harrison. […]
[In 1968,] he recorded “The Windmills of Your Mind”, the theme tune from the film The Thomas Crown Affair, which won the Academy Award for Best Original Song in 1968, and was also a Top 10 hit in the UK Singles Chart. Despite the song winning the 1968 Oscar for best original song, Harrison did not sing it at the ceremony. […]
McCARTNEY SONG FOR NOEL
Noel Harrison’s follow-up to his “Windmills Of Your Mind” hit — currently at No. 17 in this week’s NME Chart — may be a song specially written for him by Paul McCartney. It is one of six numbers at present under consideration for his new single — although it is unlikely the disc will be issued before late May, owing to Harrison’s filming commitments. McCartney became friendly with Noel after several visits to London’s Blue Angel, when Harrison was resident there.
From New Musical Express, March 22, 1969
