Do you remember that haunting song by the Beatles, the one with the line Eleanor Rigby died in the church and was buried along with her name, nobody came?
This was certainly not one of the Beatles more happier songs, and a bit out of keeping with what we had come to expect at that time.
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 as luck would have it, I was recently performing some songs in Liverpool and so during my free time I decided to look into this and see what I could find out about 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.
When I arrived in Woolton I straight away visited the local church, and their in the churchyard my eye was drawn to one particular tombstone.
Wait for it. The headstone is dedicated to an Eleanor Rigby.
Having located such an interesting gravestone I then began to ask myself if any of the Beatles lived anywhere nearby. And guess what? As a child John Lennon used to live in Menlove Avenue, which is very close to the church.
This made me think back to my childhood, and I remember as a young boy I and my friends would often play in our local churchyard, playing hide and seek and other games behind the headstones.
With this in mind it is not stretching things too far to assume that as a child John Lennon possibly also played in his local churchyard, and would have noticed the tombstone dedicated to Eleanor.
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 plan to spend more time in the near future finding out all that I can about Eleanor Rigby, and the other people who share her tombstone.
If you would like to hear from me again when I have found out some new information on this then please click on the link at the bottom of the page. This will take you to a seperate page and you will find my email address near the bottom. Just send me a brief email asking to be kept updated and I will do so whenever I find new items of interest. - 15634
This was certainly not one of the Beatles more happier songs, and a bit out of keeping with what we had come to expect at that time.
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 as luck would have it, I was recently performing some songs in Liverpool and so during my free time I decided to look into this and see what I could find out about 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.
When I arrived in Woolton I straight away visited the local church, and their in the churchyard my eye was drawn to one particular tombstone.
Wait for it. The headstone is dedicated to an Eleanor Rigby.
Having located such an interesting gravestone I then began to ask myself if any of the Beatles lived anywhere nearby. And guess what? As a child John Lennon used to live in Menlove Avenue, which is very close to the church.
This made me think back to my childhood, and I remember as a young boy I and my friends would often play in our local churchyard, playing hide and seek and other games behind the headstones.
With this in mind it is not stretching things too far to assume that as a child John Lennon possibly also played in his local churchyard, and would have noticed the tombstone dedicated to Eleanor.
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 plan to spend more time in the near future finding out all that I can about Eleanor Rigby, and the other people who share her tombstone.
If you would like to hear from me again when I have found out some new information on this then please click on the link at the bottom of the page. This will take you to a seperate page and you will find my email address near the bottom. Just send me a brief email asking to be kept updated and I will do so whenever I find new items of interest. - 15634
