ELEANOR RIGBY (Room 310)
ELEANOR RIGBY (Room 310)
In early 1966 The Beatles had an unprecedented three month break, in which time they rejected a script for a third film. By the time “Eleanor Rigby” was released in August (coupled with Yellow Submarine) they were about to complete their last set of concerts in the USA. As they had rejected the film scripts, they were about to embark upon a more creative period (if that was possible) and with more time to write and record, “Eleanor Rigby” was an early example of what we could expect. The song was a short story with fictional characters, together with a moral, echoing Paul’s writing in the previous single ‘Paperback Writer’. Originally entitled ‘Daisy Hawkins’, the principal character later became ‘Eleanor Rigby”. Paul recalled that he chose Eleanor because he liked Eleanor Bron, who had been in the film ‘Help’, and he chose ‘Rigby’ after seeing a sign for a shop in Bristol. Like ‘Yesterday’, Paul is the only Beatle to feature on this track, although John stated on many occasions that he did help with the lyrics. It certainly was a classic Beatles song but Paul was shocked, many years later, to discover that the graveyard of St Peters Church in Liverpool (where John and Paul actually met at a Garden Fete) contained the grave of a person called Eleanor Rigby!! He has very vivid memories of writing that song and was never consciously aware that the grave or the person had ever existed.
Artwork painted and owned by ©SHANNON
ELEANOR RIGBY (Room 310)
In early 1966 The Beatles had an unprecedented three month break, in which time they rejected a script for a third film. By the time “Eleanor Rigby” was released in August (coupled with Yellow Submarine) they were about to complete their last set of concerts in the USA. As they had rejected the film scripts, they were about to embark upon a more creative period (if that was possible) and with more time to write and record, “Eleanor Rigby” was an early example of what we could expect. The song was a short story with fictional characters, together with a moral, echoing Paul’s writing in the previous single ‘Paperback Writer’. Originally entitled ‘Daisy Hawkins’, the principal character later became ‘Eleanor Rigby”. Paul recalled that he chose Eleanor because he liked Eleanor Bron, who had been in the film ‘Help’, and he chose ‘Rigby’ after seeing a sign for a shop in Bristol. Like ‘Yesterday’, Paul is the only Beatle to feature on this track, although John stated on many occasions that he did help with the lyrics. It certainly was a classic Beatles song but Paul was shocked, many years later, to discover that the graveyard of St Peters Church in Liverpool (where John and Paul actually met at a Garden Fete) contained the grave of a person called Eleanor Rigby!! He has very vivid memories of writing that song and was never consciously aware that the grave or the person had ever existed.
Artwork painted and owned by ©SHANNON
ELEANOR RIGBY (Room 310)
In early 1966 The Beatles had an unprecedented three month break, in which time they rejected a script for a third film. By the time “Eleanor Rigby” was released in August (coupled with Yellow Submarine) they were about to complete their last set of concerts in the USA. As they had rejected the film scripts, they were about to embark upon a more creative period (if that was possible) and with more time to write and record, “Eleanor Rigby” was an early example of what we could expect. The song was a short story with fictional characters, together with a moral, echoing Paul’s writing in the previous single ‘Paperback Writer’. Originally entitled ‘Daisy Hawkins’, the principal character later became ‘Eleanor Rigby”. Paul recalled that he chose Eleanor because he liked Eleanor Bron, who had been in the film ‘Help’, and he chose ‘Rigby’ after seeing a sign for a shop in Bristol. Like ‘Yesterday’, Paul is the only Beatle to feature on this track, although John stated on many occasions that he did help with the lyrics. It certainly was a classic Beatles song but Paul was shocked, many years later, to discover that the graveyard of St Peters Church in Liverpool (where John and Paul actually met at a Garden Fete) contained the grave of a person called Eleanor Rigby!! He has very vivid memories of writing that song and was never consciously aware that the grave or the person had ever existed.
Artwork painted and owned by ©SHANNON