Do you remember that Beatles song with the line "Eleanor Rigby died in the church and was buried along with her name, nobody came"?
A very sad song, and at the time it was rather out of keeping with the type of songs that we had come to expect from the fab four.
I have often wondered who Eleanor Rigby really was, if indeed she was a real person at all, or was she just somebody whose name was plucked out of mid air.
Well, I was playing some gigs recently in Liverpool, and although my evenings were busy, the rest of the day was free and so I decided to use my spare time to do some research into this and to try and find out if there really was an Eleanor Rigby.
So, I popped along to the local library, did a little bit of research, and then headed for the part of Liverpool known as Woolton.
A visit to the local church will take you through the church graveyard, and there one of the tombstones or headstones caught my eye.
Wait for it. The headstone is dedicated to an Eleanor Rigby.
Now this discovery heightened my interest in my research. Could it be possible that one or more of the Beatles might have lived nearby? The answer is yes. As a child John Lennon lived in Menlove Avenue, a stones throw from the church.
Now, as a child I remember playing all sorts of games in our local churchyard. Games such as hide and seek, hiding behind the tombstones and so on. Great fun, albeit a little spooky!
Therefore it is not unreasonable to assume that John Lennon also probably often went into this churchyard, and would have seen the headstone dedicated to Eleanor Rigby.
Now unfortunately I only had a couple of days in Liverpool so I was not able to dig any deeper into this, but I intend to return soon and continue my research.
But I will be back. This is becoming very interesting to me, and I want to know more about Eleanor Rigby, and the other names that appear on her tombstone.
If you would like to be kept posted on this, and kept up to date with my research, then please click on the following link at the bottom of the page. You will be taken to another page and near the bottom you will find my email address. Just send me a note saying keep me informed or something like that, and I will email you whenever I have found out some fresh information.
A very sad song, and at the time it was rather out of keeping with the type of songs that we had come to expect from the fab four.
I have often wondered who Eleanor Rigby really was, if indeed she was a real person at all, or was she just somebody whose name was plucked out of mid air.
Well, I was playing some gigs recently in Liverpool, and although my evenings were busy, the rest of the day was free and so I decided to use my spare time to do some research into this and to try and find out if there really was an Eleanor Rigby.
So, I popped along to the local library, did a little bit of research, and then headed for the part of Liverpool known as Woolton.
A visit to the local church will take you through the church graveyard, and there one of the tombstones or headstones caught my eye.
Wait for it. The headstone is dedicated to an Eleanor Rigby.
Now this discovery heightened my interest in my research. Could it be possible that one or more of the Beatles might have lived nearby? The answer is yes. As a child John Lennon lived in Menlove Avenue, a stones throw from the church.
Now, as a child I remember playing all sorts of games in our local churchyard. Games such as hide and seek, hiding behind the tombstones and so on. Great fun, albeit a little spooky!
Therefore it is not unreasonable to assume that John Lennon also probably often went into this churchyard, and would have seen the headstone dedicated to Eleanor Rigby.
Now unfortunately I only had a couple of days in Liverpool so I was not able to dig any deeper into this, but I intend to return soon and continue my research.
But I will be back. This is becoming very interesting to me, and I want to know more about Eleanor Rigby, and the other names that appear on her tombstone.
If you would like to be kept posted on this, and kept up to date with my research, then please click on the following link at the bottom of the page. You will be taken to another page and near the bottom you will find my email address. Just send me a note saying keep me informed or something like that, and I will email you whenever I have found out some fresh information.
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