Timeline
Article July 11-20, 1970 • John Eastman visits Paul and Linda in Scotland
Article Jul 22, 1970 • Test screening of "The Raging Moon" leads Paul McCartney to withdraw his song
Article Jul 27, 1970 • Holiday in the Orkney and Shetland Islands
Article August 1970 • ATV restructuring
Related song
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Officially appears on Another Day / Oh Woman Oh Why
In May 1970 (?), film director Bryan Forbes contacted Paul McCartney to ask him to write a “sad song” for his upcoming film, “Raging Moon.” Paul obliged, and started to write “So Sad.”
On July 22, 1970, Forbes travelled to Campbeltown (Paul and Linda stayed in their Scottish farm nearby from May to September 1980) to organize a test screening. Paul was not enthusiastic about the film and in the following days wrote a note to Forbes saying that the song was not suitable for its soundtrack, so the song was not included.
“So Sad” would become part of “Another Day,” Paul’s first single of 1971.
From Wikipedia:
The Raging Moon (released in the US as Long Ago, Tomorrow) is a 1971 British romantic drama film starring Malcolm McDowell and Nanette Newman and based on the book by British novelist Peter Marshall. Adapted and directed by Bryan Forbes (Newman’s husband), this “romance in wheelchairs” was considered unusual in its time owing in part to the sexual nature of the relationship between McDowell and Newman, who play disabled people. The film received two Golden Globe nominations, for Best Foreign Film (English Language), and Best Song for “Long Ago Tomorrow”. […]
