Justin Hayward - Forever Autumn (live at Graceland, 11/1/2019 + studio version/BBC video)

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The video from his concert at Graceland a couple of years ago starts with him talking about how he came to do the song.

And there's more about the song in the YouTube description with video from 1978, Justin's Top of the Pops appearance:

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1. A song with very profound meaning for me!

A young lady I was very much in love with liked to take long autumn walks, as I do, and we took many together. I proposed to her, but she turned me down, saying she wasn't ready to be tied down. We parted ways, but six months later I got her invitation to her wedding--so she WAS ready to be tied down to someone else. Guess I wasn't rich enough for her.

One hike I especially remember was on November 4th, and it was after that hike that I first heard that wondrous song. I have played it every November 4th since then. It still gets me.

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2. I'm so sorry, lastlib, that you have any sad memories connected with

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this gorgeous song. I think most women are sincere when they turn down marriage proposals because they don't want to be tied down, at least not yet (I was). If she was simply looking for someone wealthy, shame on her. Rich men (I've dated some) are not any more attractive, interesting, or good in bed than guys who aren't rich, and they're likely to be less if they think having money makes them hot. (Jeez, look at Trump. On second thought, don't. I could never understand why any woman would get involved with him, unless her only interest was money.) If your girlfriend was just looking for someone wealthy, you deserved better.

It's also possible she did decide, after you broke up, that maybe she was ready to settle down, that she genuinely hadn't thought she was earlier.

And it's possible that your breakup made her realize that. That she felt later that she'd made a mistake turning you down, but didn't see any way to go back to that relationship (she might have thought you'd changed your mind), and so she settled for someone she hadn't cared for as much as she cared for you. I've seen that happen with a couple of women I know, and it was more common back when this song was released, when women not only felt more pressure to marry, but to marry before they hit 30.