The Beatles - She Came in Through the Bathroom Window - Lyrics Meaning

``She Came in Through the Bathroom Window'' appears in the sixteen-minute medley of songs at the end of the Beatles' 1969 album Abbey Road. The song, about an obsessed fan breaking into Paul McCartney's house, was recorded along with ``Polythene Pam,'' another track about one of the band's fans. The inspiration for the song came from an incident in which a groupie entered McCartney's home by placing a ladder up to the window of the smallest room, the bathroom. In The Classic Artists Series: The Moody Blues, Moody Blues keyboardist Mike Pinder claims that the story actually happened to Ray Thomas, a member of his band. According to Pinder, a girl crawled through their bathroom window to spend the night with Thomas; he and Thomas told McCartney the story the following day, and McCartney immediately began strumming a tune and singing ``She came in through the bathroom window'' on the guitar he was holding at the time. In spite of this assertion Diane Ashley, a member of the Apple Scruffs, a dedicated group of Beatles fans, is insistent that they were the inspiration for the tune. While bored, she claims, a group of the Apple Scruffs broke into McCartney's home and stole several of his photographs.