Jane Asher and Paul McCartney (English Version)

FOR NO ONE

On 6 March, Paul and Jane went skiing in Klosters, Switzerland.

Steve Turner: [...] Two days later Paul and Jane crossed the English Channel and drove to the small Swiss ski resort of Klosters, near Davos, for a two-week vacation. The Beatles had spent three days in Obertauern, Austria, the previous year filming skiing sequences for Help!, and this introduction to the sport had given Paul the appetite to learn to ski properly. The couple rented La Casa Rosemarie, a chalet on the road to Davos overlooking the town and the Alps beyond and built by local restaurant owner Tino Meisser for his daughter. 

Every day in Klosters Paul and Jane started at 9:00 a.m. with their twenty-two-year-old ski instructor, John Christoffel, and were taught until 4:00 p.m. Their visit wasn’t announced, and so no journalists or photographers trailed them. Even Christoffel wasn’t told the identity of his new students and didn’t discover it until he casually asked Paul what he did for a living. At the time Paul was driving his Aston Martin to the ski lift, and he just put on a record and said, “This is what I do.” The record was “Michelle.” Christoffel wasn't aware of any problems between Paul and Jane. As far as he could detect, they were a happy couple, both keen to learn as much as they could in the short time available. On some evenings the three of them remained together after the lessons to eat or drink. On one night Christoffel took them to a town hall dance in Saas where bands played traditional Swiss folk music on accordions, clarinets, and upright basses.

Steve Turner: In the bathroom of the chalet Paul began writing his song “For No One,” at first with the title “Why Did It Die?”