\♫/ Song Facts by Wiki-Rock \♫/ Eleanor Rigby is a song by The Beatles, released on their 1966 album Revolver and as a 45 rpm single. It was written primarily by Paul McCartney, and credited to Lennon–McCartney. Paul McCartney came up with the melody of Eleanor Rigby as he experimented with his piano. However, the original name of the protagonist that he chose was not Eleanor Rigby but Miss Daisy Hawkins. The singer-composer Donovan reported that he heard McCartney play it to him before it was finished, with completely different lyrics. In 1966, McCartney recalled how he got the idea for his song: I was sitting at the piano when I thought of it. The first few bars just came to me, and I got this name in my head ... Daisy Hawkins picks up the rice in the church. I dont know why. I couldnt think of much more so I put it away for a day. Then the name Father McCartney came to me, and all the lonely people. But I thought that people would think it was supposed to be about my Dad sitting knitting his socks. Dads a happy lad. So I went through the telephone book and I got the name McKenzie. Others believe that Father McKenzie refers to Father Tommy McKenzie, who was the compere at Northwich Memorial Hall. McCartney said he came up with the name Eleanor from actress Eleanor Bron, who had starred with the Beatles in the film Help!. Rigby came from the name of a store in Bristol, Rigby & Evens Ltd, Wine & Spirit Shippers, which he noticed while seeing his girlfriend of the time, Jane Asher, act in The Happiest Days of Your Life. He recalled in 1984, I just liked the name. I was looking for a name that sounded natural. Eleanor Rigby sounded natural. However, it has been pointed out that the graveyard of St Peters Church in Liverpool, where John Lennon and Paul McCartney first met at the Woolton Village garden fete in the afternoon of 6 July 1957, contains the gravestone of an individual called Eleanor Rigby. Paul McCartney has conceded he may have been subconsciously influenced by the name on the gravestone. The real Eleanor Rigby lived a lonely life similar to that of the person in the song.
Posted on: Thu, 13 Nov 2014 02:07:44 +0000
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