Paul wrote an essay for The New Yorker in which he discussed writing “Eleanor Rigby.” Paul was dating actor Jane Asher, and Asher’s mother arranged for him to take piano lessons. He revealed he played ...

In a 2021 article from The New Yorker, Paul discussed the origins of The Beatles’ “Eleanor Rigby.” “It did feel like a breakthrough for me lyrically — more of a serious song,” he recalled. “[Producer] ...

Hearing John Lennon’s “No Reply” in the autumn of 1964, music publisher Dick James remarked to the songwriter that he—and the Beatles—were making progress. Asked what James meant, the publisher ...

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The Top 10 performed Grammy Award hits and two contestants went home Thursday American Idol narrowed the top 8 down to a top 6 on Thursday’s hard-fought episode – where one contestant found redemption ...

Excerpted from the book THE BEATLES LYRICS by Hunter Davies. It was thanks to "Eleanor Rigby" that I got to meet Paul properly. When it first came out, as a single but also on the Revolver album, I ...

Eleanor Rigby was “buried along with her name,” according to The Beatles song, but not her Bible — it’s being auctioned in London next month along with the deed to to her grave in the Woolton suburb ...

Focusing on the part of the song’s lyrics that mention the eponymous woman’s name, Spenser was able to find five-syllable grocery items that, when sung in place “Eleanor Rigby,” may as well be the ...

An artist in Liverpool has created a statue inspired by the title character in the Beatles‘ 1966 song “Eleanor Rigby,” crafted of £1 million pounds in old bank notes. As the Liverpool Echo reports, ...

LONDON — Eleanor Rigby: fact or fiction? That question, which has bedeviled Beatles’ fans for decades, may be answered in part by a 1911 hospital payroll sheet to be auctioned in London today. The ...

"I'll be doing a song, let's say 'Eleanor Rigby' or something, and I'm on autopilot," the Beatles star tells the Smartless podcast Paul McCartney has revealed that even music icons can experience a ...