Eleanor Rigby
Published on November 28, 2008 by the boss · 2 CommentsA 97-year-old document that Sir Paul McCartney sent to Annie Mawson of the Sunbeams Music Trust , in June of 1990, was auctioned off for $177,000 on November 26th. The auction proceeds belong to Ms. Mawson and her charity, which uses music to help people with special needs.
The document confirms at the very least that there was a scullery maid named E. Rigby who signed for her monthly wage in 1911 at Liverpool City Hospital.
The grave of one Eleanor Rigby was also discovered in the churchyard of St. Peter’s in Woolton, Liverpool, close to where McCartney met John Lennon in 1957.
McCartney has always said that the lonely Eleanor of his song was fictional, although he has conceded that the name on the grave may have had some subconscious influence on him.
Okay, now what about Father Mckenzie? According to the Eleanor Rigby Songfacts page, “Father Mackenzie was originally Father McCartney. Paul decided he didn’t want to freak out his dad and picked a name out of the phone book instead.”
And … it says that Paul put the name together from the first name of actress Eleanor Bron, and a store named Rigby.
Songfacts is a great site!
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I agree – it’s just too much of a coincidence. Why couldn’t Paul just say, yeah – that’s where I got it from? And why did he send that lady the document without telling her what was on it? What if she didn’t notice it right way and put it somewhere and someone threw it out? LOL.
I always wondered why they used that name in two songs, first Eleanor Rigby and then Elenore by The Turtles. Even back then, it was a pretty old-fashioned name. Maybe Howard Kaylan can fill us in.
And then, maybe Don McLean could be a little more forthcoming about “American Pie”?
Well, if there’s a grave with that very name on it near where Paul and John hung out, that settles it for me. I like Eleanor Bron too, but that gravestone couldn’t be just an odd coincidence. Makes you wonder how many things out there like the Bron explanation are just made up out of thin air by fans (or by slightly deranged Beatles). :-)