The Real Secrets Behind the Beatles' Lyrics ... ; After It's Revealed Eleanor Rigby Was a Liverpool Scullery Maid ...
Daily Mail › November 13, 2008
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ELEANOR RIGBY -- in her life she was just one out of millions of unremarkable, working-class people. In her death she is not even remembered. Yet that resolutely plain, old-fashioned English name has become, through song, almost part of our folklore.
'Eleanor Rigby died in the church and was buried along with her name,' Paul McCartney sang in 1966 and conjured images of an old lady, a sad pillar of the church, her only friend the equally lonely Father McKenzie, 'darning his socks in the night when there's nobody there'.See the full content of this document
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The Real Secrets Behind the Beatles' Lyrics ... ; After It's Revealed Eleanor Rigby Was a Liverpool Scullery Maid ...
We've been imagining her ever since.
She is the subject of some of the most evocative lyrics of 20th- century songwriting -- but who was this unknown woman whose name inspired one of the greatest of Beatle songs? It's long been known that there was a gravestone bearing that name in the cemetery of St Peter's parish church, close to John Lennon's childhood home in Menlove Avenue, Woolton.Yet when the song was first released on The Beatles' Revolver album it was be...See the full content of this document
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