Beatles Eleanor Rigby: identity revealed
p2pnet news view Music:- A snippet carrying the signature of a scullery maid who apparently inspired The Beatles much covered hit Eleanor Rigby is to be auctioned on November 27.
“The paper, dated 30 November 1911, shows the pay received by scullery maid E Rigby from Liverpool’s City Hospital,” says the BBC.
” It surfaced in 1990 when Sir Paul McCartney sent it to Anne Mawson, of the Sunbeams Music Trust, when she asked him for £500,000 for the charity.”
For years, “Paul McCartney maintained that the protagonist of one his most poignant songs was an entirely fictional construct, her first name borrowed from Help! actress Eleanor Bron and her surname taken from a wine merchant in Bristol,” says The Guardian, going on:
“Now it transpires that McCartney knew more about the real Eleanor Rigby than he led us to believe.
” When approached for a donation by The Sunbeam Trust charity, McCartney instead mailed back a carefully-folded page from a 1911 Corporation of Liverpool accounts book. On it, the signature of one E Rigby, then a 16-year-old scullery maid at the old City Hospital in Parkhill.”
It’s not the first time people have tried to discover who the real Eleanor Rigby was.
“In the 1980s, the gravestone of an Eleanor Rigby (1895-1939) was discovered in the cemetery of St Peter’s Church in Woolton, Liverpool literally stone’s throw from where Lennon and McCartney first met,” adds the story.
BBC – Eleanor Rigby signature auctioned, November 11, 2008
The Guardian – Revealed: The real Eleanor Rigby, November 11, 2008
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