#eleanor rigby

[cosmonautroger]

Stanley Jordan, Eleanor Rigby, 1986

[inksplit]

Eleanor Rigby // The Beatles

[thegonse]

beatletober days 15 & 16

[noodleshook]

Eleanor Rigby and all her lonely people

[undying-love]

Paul discussing Eleanor Rigby and then turning it into the story of how he met John 🤦

Seriously, this is section of Eleanor Rigby in Paul's book The Lyrics. He is supoosed to be explaining the backstory of the song, and he instead spends more than half the chapter recounting how he met John.

[dontleavemewaitinghere]

♫⋆｡ Beatles Fact: In the song ‘Eleanor Rigby’, Father McKenzie was originally going to be called ‘Father McCartney’, however Paul McCartney did not like this as it sounded too similar to his father. John Lennon believed it would be fine, however Paul was insistent on changing the name. They looked through a phone book, underneath the name ‘McCartney’ and found ‘McKenzie’, Paul instantly liked the name, and used it in his song. This created the iconic character we know of today.

- Info: ‘Paul McCartney Breaks down his most iconic songs | GQ’ (YouTube).

[tavolgisvist]

Paul on Another Day

Think 'Eleanor Rigby' meets Hitchcock's Rear Window. For, much as I hate to admit it, there is indeed a voyeuristic aspect to this song. Like many writers, I really am a bit of a voyeur; if there’s a lit window and there’s someone in it, I will watch them. Hands up, guilty. I mentioned ‘Eleanor Rigby’. But while both that song and this one focus on the same idea – trying to capture the everyday of this character’s life – the language here is more formal, less impressionistic. Eleanor Rigby ‘lives in a dream’, and that’s reflected in lines like ‘Wearing the face that she keeps in a jar by the door’. The protagonist here works in an office, though, and the lyrics are almost like a list, like her itinerary for the day. This was just after The Beatles broke up, and I was trying to establish myself as a solo artist with a new repertoire. If it was going to work like the Beatles repertoire had worked, I had to have a hit. One in two songs had to be a hit. So, this was a conscious effort to write a hit, and Phil was very helpful. We knew that if we had a hit, it would cement our relationship and we would keep working together, which we did with the RAM album. It would prove that we were both good – he as a producer and I as a singer songwriter. Releasing my first solo song after the breakup felt like a big moment. Thrilling, though tinged with sadness. It also felt like I had something to prove, and that kind of challenge is always exciting. The song went to number two in the UK singles chart and number five in the US Billboard Hot 100, so it did pretty well. Of course, this was still a time when there was a bit of tension between John and me, and this sometimes filtered into our songwriting. John made fun of this song in one of his own, ‘How Do You Sleep?’The only thing you done was yesterday And since you’ve gone you’re just another day One of his little piss takes.

(Paul McCartney, The Lyrics, 2021)

I'll say the obvious but Another Day and Eleanor Rigby have one commonality between them and it isn't 'a voyeuristic aspect' but the loneliness of the character. 'So-o many miles…' etc

And what kind of blind idiot do you have to be to make fun of a person who sings 'she finds it hard to stay alive'?

[harrisonarchive]

Photo by Leslie Bryce.

“I do know that George Harrison was there when we came up with ‘Ah, look at all the lonely people.’ [Paul] and George were settling on that as I left the studio to go to the toilet, and I heard the lyric and turned around and said, ‘That’s it’” - John Lennon, 1980; All We Are Saying (x)

[mtvscreengrabs]

Eleanor Rigby - The Beatles (1966)

[ladystardustziggy]

Eleanor Rigby by the Beatles is like a beautiful painting that’s lost and forgotten that you only know very little about.

[beatlesincolour]

[ilovedig]

I was wearing one of my Imagine shirts yesterday.

There's one line on it but it's broken up

Imagine all the people Living life in peace.

And because of my jacket, I only saw "all the people"

And it dawned on me. To get each other's attention, these boys used each other's lyrics in different songs.

"All the people" is basically "all the lonely people"

Not to mention the way Paul wrote Eleanor Rigby and the way John wrote Imagine were pretty similar. They had help from a bunch of friends with different lines. Basically, the only friend not involved was each other.

That can't be a coincidence.

And everyone agrees that "Too Many People" is the next part of the conversation (even though it's a line from George's "Isn't it a Pity")

It makes more sense that it's lyrically inspired by Imagine rather than HDYS. "All the people" to "too many people"

Maybe Imagine hurt Paul a lot. Paul prided himself on understanding things, avant garde, art, philosophy etc. And here is John saying "You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one, I hope someday you'll join us"

Which, I think translates you, "you're acting like I'm crazy but you just don't get it. Maybe you will one day but you're not aware enough to get it now."

That probably stung.

So yeah, that's my new theory thanks to my Imagine shirt.

[sirfowlman]

So the Simpsons recently killed off Larry, one of the barflies from Moe's Tavern, and they did a parody of The Beatles' "Eleanor Rigby" to sum up his life.

Geez, I never thought I'd feel a tad sad for a background character.

[theluciferswar]

Lucifers VS Lucifers : Round 3

Propaganda under the cut

Lucifer (Obey Me !)

He's the real ex-angel Lucifer except him and his brothers fell cause God wanted to delete their sister from existence for feeding a human she had fallen in love with angel food to save him. God. Wanted to get rid. Of his sister. For saving a human.

So he did war about it, and lost, and now he's a demon with stress and a homoerotic bond with the Lord of the Devildom and 6 unruly little brothers which are the other avatars of sin.

He's like a middle aged single father and he needs a break I stg. He's getting grey hairs! Some of those are caused by the MC also! Because they're a little shit sometimes! Also he's hot. Wears glasses sometimes. I think they should actually salt and pepper his hair but no one listens to me and my huge brain. Give him wrinkles also. I know hes an ageless being but I want hot middle aged men and not just more twinks.

Sorry that's unrelated op my bad. Anyways his family is chaotic but he still loves them deeply despite it all.

Lucifer (WicDiv)

Luci is the heart of WicDiv. It's a book about her. Or, more accurately, it's a book about her death. She's an irreverant hedonist, a lonely teenager thrust into stardom, and, above all else, the Devil Incarnate.

WicDiv is incredible, a masterpiece of indie comics, and all about 12 teenagers (mostly 18-19yos) who incarnate as gods - they will be loved, they will be hated, within two years they will be dead...and Lucifer is the first to die, though she does it before her time.

SPOILERS, but she gets better, and the ending is incredible - they all announce that they're giving up their godhood to end the cycle / save everything, and Lucifer goes last, and follows the same, "I'm not a god..." format, only to go, "...I've never been a god. I'm Lucifer." And it's iconic. And the scene that follows it up, where "Persephone" goes to rescue her - "there were two girls in hell" ??? incredible.

Also, in universe after her death, people started wearing Lucifer Died For Our Sins t-shirts, and they started selling them as real shirts, and I think it's fucking hilarious. https://wicdiv.threadless.com/designs/lucifer-died-for-our-sins-dark/mens/t-shirt

[quotessentially]

From Douglas Coupland’s Eleanor Rigby