Paul is Jack Gray?
- Amanda Riddell
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Jane Asher confirmed it. Timothy Gray was a real singer who worked with Hugh Martin, while Jack Gray was the name Paul used when writing songs with Hugh. It's a lot like with Taylor and Don/Peter. He helped her with some early hits too. High Spirits is the one where Paul got to co-write the songs. Hugh Martin had a nervous breakdown in the early 1960's. Paul was there for him. - The real Timothy Gray found out, then stole the credit and the royalties for High Spirits. Paul only wrote a handful, but Love Can Change The Stars is one he co-wrote. I'm the one who matured later as a songwriter (at 17-18). Paul and Taylor were good as kids and wrote lots of early songs as tweens.
Paul was into songs, but famously isn't much of a theatre person. At Last We're Alone was another one of his. Do You Want To Know A Secret makes more sense this way. Didn't mean Paul could secretly read music. That was John. John and George could pick up Tin Pan Alley songs from a score. They had PVG scores in those days, not tabs like today. Paul needed a transcriber; Lennon, Starr and Harrison were into rock.