She was present, as was John Lennon‘s girlfriend Yoko Ono, when the White Album was being recorded. Beatles associate Tony Barrow believed that Paul “used her” to break up with Jane. McCartney apparently made her leave several times before the final split between the two. She insists that Asher “knocked” on the bedroom door first. A bit later on she came storming out again and drove away.” Later on, Jane’s mother arrived to retrieve Jane’s things. Schwartz later stated in her book Body Count that McCartney and Asher had broken up before the affair, but she did not deny that Asher saw them in bed together. She’d come back…earlier than she was supposed to. One of the fans who used to hang around McCartney’s house at 7 Cavendish Avenue in St Johns Wood, London, says that “…Paul brought this American girl home……another car turned into Cavendish Avenue - it was Jane. Plump” and she was “Clancy”. According to most accounts, Asher returned to find them in bed together. Schwartz says they had nicknames for one another: he was “Mr. While Jane Asher was away on holiday, Schwartz lived with McCartney. McCartney gave her a job working for Derek Taylor, Apple Corps’ Public Relations manager, writing press releases for various Apple Corps artists including James Taylor, Mary Hopkin, Badfinger and Jackie Lomax.
A relationship developed and he later invited her to move in with him at 7 Cavendish Avenue in St John’s Wood, where he was living at the time. McCartney was standing there in conversation with some business contacts. This was prior to Apple Corps’ move to Savile Row later in 1968. She came to London on 3 April 1968 and, a few days later, walked into the reception room of their first office at 95 Wigmore Street. She thought the story would be perfect for Paul McCartney with the addition of his lyrical and romantic musical melodies. Her script was for a film about a street violinist and actor she had met when he was doing his act in front of Carnegie Hall, New York City. Intrigued by the Beatles‘ formation of the Apple Corps, which she had read about in the American magazine Rolling Stone, she went to London at the age of 23 to see if one of her scripts was of interest to what she regarded as the “non- establishment“. She met the Beatles at a critical point in their development, when they were making the White Album. At the time McCartney was engaged to the actress Jane Asher, who broke off the engagement after she found them in bed together. In 1972 Schwartz wrote an account of these events in her “early autobiography”, Body Count. Francie Schwartz (born 1944) is an American scriptwriter and the former girlfriend, during the late 1960s, of Paul McCartney, who referred to her as “Franny”.
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