For reference (and clues?) here's the plot of the 1966 movie "Alfie".
www.imdb.com/title/tt0060086/plotsummary"Alfie is the ultimate Ladykiller. He is wonderfully successful with women. He also rarely gets emotionally involved with them. He has a series of reversals in which his health is threatened, he has a child who is adopted by another man, gets a married woman pregnant and must procure an abortion for her, and when he decides to settle down is rejected for a younger man.
Summary written by Anonymous
Alfie is a young man from the working classes of London. He is confident, charming, totally self-centered and very successful with the ladies; using them for his immediate pleasure without emotional involvement and leaving a trail of emotional devastation. His callousness toward these women contrasts with the delusion that he causes no harm; he is just teaching life's lessons. He begins to show some personal growth
as he watches a child of one of his affairs relating to its stepfather. The emotional climax of the film occurs when he sees the fetus of a married woman he has impregnated and urged to have aborted. When he finally decides to enter a permanent relationship, he chooses the voluptuous [shadow=red,left,300]Ruby[/shadow], proprietress of several ladies salons. However, in a twist of fate, Ruby has decided to move on to a younger stud, leaving Alfie with a life's lesson of his own...
Summary written by Joe Jurca"
(end quote of referenced website)
Goodbye
Ruby Tuesday(?) (name of a Rolling Stones song)
Remember: "Sunday's on the phone to Monday; Tuesday's on the phone to me."
So "Stupid bloody Tuesday Man, (you let your face grow long)"
could mean "Tuesday's man" or "Ruby's man" (Paul)
let his face grow long.
In other words, Ruby's man (Sylvie's man, Paul) let his face grow long (let Faul take his place).
Also worth consideration: If "Alfie" watched one of his progeny relating to its stepfather, this could mean Paul watched little 'Nicola's relationship with Johnny Hallyday, and "the voluptuos Ruby" could have been Fylvie (Marissa) aka Wendy Winters.
Then, distraught that he had been dumped by her ("Sexy Sadie"),
"Alfie" could then have learned of Sylvie's demise (suicide) and gone into depression,
feeling that he was to blame for it.
I believe that's the real scenario.
For reference:
ALFIE
(Burt Bacharach)
What's it all about, Alfie?
Is it just for the moment we live?
What's it all about when you sort it out, Alfie?
Are we meant to take more than we give
or are we meant to be kind?
And if only fools are kind, Alfie,
then I guess it is wise to be cruel.
And if life belongs only to the strong, Alfie,
what will you lend on an old golden rule?
As sure as I believe there's a heaven above, Alfie,
I know there's something much more,
something even non-believers can believe in.
I believe in love, Alfie.
Without true love we just exist, Alfie.
Until you find the love you've missed you're nothing, Alfie.
When you walk let your heart lead the way
and you'll find love any day, Alfie, Alfie.
(end)
A message to Paul, who was still alive at the time, imo.