Eleanor Rigby

Eleanor Rigby's fame is the direct result of a song of the same name by the Beatles, written by Paul McCartney, who actually took a while to settle down on the name "Eleanor Rigby".

He came up with the name Eleanor from actress Eleanor Bron, with whom he had starred in the film Help!. Rigby came from the name of a store in Bristol, Rigby & Evens Ltd, Wine & Spirit Shippers.

Our mythical and mystical Eleanor represents "All the Lonely People" everywhere.

Thanks Paul and the Beatles for a legendary character. May we always remember her.

1. Father Mckenzie: for his diligence, persistence, and undying faith
2. All the lonely people - because no one else loves them
3. The Yellow Submarine, for comic relief - the flip side of the 45

Eleanor Rigby

Ah, look at all the lonely people

Ah, look at all the lonely people

Eleanor rigby picks up the rice in the church where a wedding has been

Lives in a dream

Waits at the window, wearing the face that she keeps in a jar by the door

Who is it for?

All the lonely people

Where do they all come from ?

All the lonely people

Where do they all belong ?

Father mckenzie writing the words of a sermon that no one will hear

No one comes near.

Look at him working. darning his socks in the night when there's nobody there

What does he care?

All the lonely people

Where do they all come from?

All the lonely people

Where do they all belong?

Eleanor rigby died in the church and was buried along with her name

Nobody came

Father mckenzie wiping the dirt from his hands as he walks from the grave

No one was saved

All the lonely people

Where do they all come from?

All the lonely people

Where do they all belong?

...Paul McCartney

In the 1980s, a grave of an Eleanor Rigby was discovered in the graveyard of St. Peter's Parish Church in Woolton, Liverpool. The grave is a few feet from where McCartney and Lennon first met in 1957

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