Sir Paul McCartney's split song

Sep 11, 2006, 12:13 GMT

Sir Paul McCartney penned a song about his failing marriage over a year before he split from wife Heather Mills.

Friends of the former Beatle have revealed that the track 'Riding to Vanity Fair' on his last album, 'Chaos And Creation In The Backyard', which was recorded last spring, was written as a comment on his struggling union.

In the song, believed to have been written in January 2005, Sir Paul sings: "I was open to friendship but you didn't seem to have any to spare/While you were riding to Vanity Fair."

A friend of the 64-year-old musician, who split from Heather in May this year, told Britain's Sunday Mirror newspaper: "All Paul's emotions and troubles because of the marriage to Heather are in that song.

"He is saying how the love has gone out of their relationship. And he is putting the blame squarely on Heather.

"In that song, Paul tells Heather how she has humiliated him and treated him like a fool. He says he was prepared to put up with that treatment because he loved her. And he wrote how he permanently wanted to be his friend.

"But the song says she turned down the chance - because she was more interested in publicity. Paul was using the US magazine Vanity Fair to symbolize her love of the limelight generally."

Paul and Heather married in June 2002 and have a two-year-old daughter, Beatrice, together.

They are currently locked in a bitter divorce battle and have hired the same lawyers used by Prince Charles and Princess Diana in their divorce.

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