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Homeward Bound is one of Simon’s best-loved songs and it has long been believed he wrote it while sitting at Widnes train station in 1965, waiting for a London service. There is even a plaque at the station proudly commemorating the event.

However Geoff Speed, who drove Simon to the station on the day he was supposed to have written it said: ‘There’s no way he could have written the song at the station. We got to the station just as the train pulled in, and Paul had to run to make it. He didn’t have time to sit down, much less write a song.’