Hi! I'm sure, you know there's a grave in Liverpool with a lady named "Eleanor Rigby". He and Lennon occasionally spent time at this cemetery. McCartney also thinks it's possible, that he walked by and memorized the name. The other version is, that "Eleanor" is from actress Eleanor Bron from "Help" and "Rigby" from a store in Bristol. One can probably roll the dice, which is ultimately correct...

@@braudabo Hi. Yes, but the characters were made up (he doesn’t care how McCartney came up with the names lol)

Thank you for all this information

Are you trying to say that you know more about what McCartney's song is about than McCartney himself? He said he made up the name. End of story.

@@RadCenter That's exactly what I'm saying. So I imagined that photo I've seen of pictures of the tombstone. I've read McCartney words that John found comfort for some reason in the inscription "Asleep". I've seen the stone, it was a family stone and Eleanor was the last name on it. If you know Beatles history at all then you've probably seen the Anthology series. Paul, George and Ringo had whole different accounts about their memories on different events. They couldn't even agree on whether John wrote All You need Is Love for the worldwide satellite performance in 67 for that show or if had it around already and George Martin just looked at the camera and had nothing too say and these interviews were done back in 93 and they had different memories. When John was alive he was all over the place with recollections of events and songs. He claimed that " In My Life" was 90% his, Paul sees it differently, I think he's more in the 40, to 50% range. I might go 25% and that's maybe. They all had and the two now have different memories so then why would you believe everything out of Paul's mouth. I think he's much older now and time can be remembered differently. Here's a few more. Since Georges death every time Paul reminiscences about George its always "He was like my little brother too me, I'm two years older then George and George put that BS to rest way back on the Anthology when in his great George way he said no matter what Paul will always be eight months older than me" Hilarious, I love George, he never beat around the bush. He had enough of Paul's BS back in 1993. I just saw Paul in an interview a couple of weeks ago telling the story if bringing George into the band. "John, I have a school pal, he's quite young but he's really good" OK Paul, you're eight months older, not two or three years . The rest of his story was accurate about George auditioning for John on top of the double decker bus. Why is he still always pushing this narrative that he was so much older than George. Same reason he's putting out this narrative that Eleanor Rigby is a fictitious character. Like is stated in my comment, Father McKenzie is fictitious, that's accurate. His Eleanor fantasy he's living now is total BS. When was the last time you saw "Yellow Submarine"? You can go on u tube right now and punch in video for Eleanor Rigby from the movie and you'll see the submarine cruising over the top of the tombstone and you'll see, " Here Lies" that's all you see but that's it, that's an image of the stone. I can go on with more Paul delusional stories here but I'm done with this shit and I love Paul so I mean no disrespect to him. Now, if you want too live in Paul's current partial fantasy world, that's fine. I prefer too live in the factual world. I've been a Beatles fanatic since I saw them on The Ed Sullivan Show at the ripe old age of six and was fortunate enough too see them in concert in Pittsburgh that September. I had all of their LP's and singles growing up. If you saw my record collection your jaw would drop. "Yesterday And Today" Butcher Covers, 1state Stereo, Near Mint. 1st Mono NM. 2nd state Trunk Cover Paste Over Butcher Stereo. 2nd state Paste Over Mono. 3rd state peeled Butchers Mono and Stereo NM. The Beatles vs The Beach Boys Vee Jay label, NM. Eight variations of "Introducing The Beatles" Vee Jay NM. The Beatles And Frank Ifield On Stage. Stereo NM Vee Jay as rare as 1state Stereo Butcher. Every Capitol Lp mono and stereo NM. Every Apple Lp NM Every Beatles 45 rpm Capitol and VeeJay Picture Sleeve and records NM. Both Capitol Ep's with Picture Sleeves NM Capitol Juke Box EPs with juke box inserts and Picture Sleeve's NM. I think you get the picture here. I'm Beatles time all the time. You're gonna have a hard time finding someone who has read, researched and collected this band more than me. I started collecting their records in 1972 before people were collecting Beatles records and I was a 14 year old HS freshman. I have some memorabilia but never focused too much on that because it was always about the music for me. At 14 I had this feeling that these records were gonna be sought after someday and I don't know why that was. I think probably how big they were and this was gonna be history and as it turned out, I was right. Well Nancy , that's my story and my period for you. Long Live The Beatles Peace & Love and no hard feelings and we may have to just agree to disagree I guess.

True, there is a tombstone with Eleanor Rigby on it, but in England there are probably hundreds of them with that name on it. I believe Paul's story that Eleanor came from Eleanor Brom from Help! And Rigby from a shop.