Eleanor Rigby by The Beatles

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?

A rather depressing song I think and not one that we had grown to get used to from the Beatles.

Well now, the song was real enough, but I have often wondered if there was a real Eleanor Rigby, or not.

Well now, as a matter of good fortune I recently had the chance to play a few gigs in Liverpool, and during my free time I decided to see just 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.

A visit to the local church will take you through the church graveyard, and there one of the tombstones or headstones caught my eye.

Yes, you guessed it, the tombstone had the inscription Eleanor Rigby.

Now this discovery heightened my interest in my research. Could it be possible that one or more of the Beatles might have lived nearby? The answer is yes. As a child John Lennon lived in Menlove Avenue, a stones throw from 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.

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.

Now unfortunately I only had a couple of days in Liverpool so I was not able to dig any deeper into this, but I intend to return soon and continue 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.

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