Who was the person the Beatles sang about who died in the church and was buried, and 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.
So, who was Eleanor Rigby, and was she a real person or was she just a figment of the imagination, something like lovely Rita, meter maid?
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.
To get started I went along to the local library and after digging out a few pieces of information I pointed the car towards a suburb 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.
So, having found this fascinating tombstone I then wondered if any of the Beatles might possibly have lived nearby. And guess what, John Lennon used to live as a child in Menlove Avenue, which is quite close to the church.
So I reflected for a moment about when I was a young boy. Odd as it might seem, one of the things that I and my friends used to do is to play games in our local churchyard, untill we were chased away.
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.
This was becoming very exciting for me, but sadly I only had a couple of days in Liverpool before heading off, so was not able to complete 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.
So, who was Eleanor Rigby, and was she a real person or was she just a figment of the imagination, something like lovely Rita, meter maid?
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.
To get started I went along to the local library and after digging out a few pieces of information I pointed the car towards a suburb 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.
So, having found this fascinating tombstone I then wondered if any of the Beatles might possibly have lived nearby. And guess what, John Lennon used to live as a child in Menlove Avenue, which is quite close to the church.
So I reflected for a moment about when I was a young boy. Odd as it might seem, one of the things that I and my friends used to do is to play games in our local churchyard, untill we were chased away.
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.
This was becoming very exciting for me, but sadly I only had a couple of days in Liverpool before heading off, so was not able to complete 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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