I think it was more a question of coincidence … I didn't think, 'Wow, that woman gave me a ticket, I'll write a song about her.' Never happened like that." Author John Winn writes that McCartney's inspiration came from hearing the term "meter maid", after which he began writing the song when visiting his brother Michael in Liverpool. In his comments to biographer Barry Miles, however, McCartney refuted the idea that this episode inspired the song: "It wasn't based on a real person. When asked why he had called her "Rita", McCartney replied, "Well, she looked like a Rita to me". Instead of becoming angry, he accepted it with good grace and expressed his feelings in song. According to some sources, "Lovely Rita" originates from when a female traffic warden named Meta Davies issued a parking ticket to McCartney outside Abbey Road Studios. The term " meter-maid", largely unknown in the UK before the song's release, is American slang for a female traffic warden. It is about a meter maid and the narrator's affection for her.
It was written and sung by Paul McCartney and credited to Lennon–McCartney. " Lovely Rita" is a song by the English rock band the Beatles from their 1967 album Sgt.
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