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This is my tribute to my favorite rock band of all time-The Beatles. I am trying my best to post something about them every Tuesdays and forgive me if there are times I wasn’t able to do so.

I have been a big fan of the 60′s band since high school. I love their music to, the bones. Everytime I hear their songs in the radio or on a cd I get excited and inspired. I can name a few of my favorite songs but love all their music.  This one here is from sir Paul McCartney’s concert in Kiev, Ukraine last June 14, 2008.

As is true of many of McCartney’s songs, the melody and first line of the song came to him as he was playing around on his piano. The name that came to him, though, was not Eleanor Rigby but Miss Daisy Hawkins. In 1966, McCartney recalled how he got the idea for his song:

Others believe that Father McKenzie refers to ‘Father’ Tommy McKenzie, who was the compere at Northwich Memorial Hall^[3][4]

McCartney originally imagined Daisy as a pre-pubescent girl, but anyone who cleaned up in churches would probably be older. If she were older, she might have missed not only the wedding she cleans up after but also her own.

McCartney said he came up with the name Eleanor from actress Eleanor Bron, who had starred with the Beatles in the film Help!. Rigby came from the name of a store in Bristol, Rigby & Evens Ltd, Wine & Spirit Shippers, that he noticed while seeing his then-girlfriend Jane Asher act in The Happiest Days Of Your Life. He recalled in 1984, “I just liked the name. I was looking for a name that sounded natural. Eleanor Rigby sounded natural.”^[5]

The Beatles finished the song in the music room of John Lennon’s home at Kenwood. John Lennon, George Harrison, Ringo Starr, and their friend Pete Shotton all listened to McCartney play his song through and contributed ideas. Starr contributed the line “writing the words of a sermon that no one will hear ” and suggested making “Father McCartney” darn his socks, which McCartney liked. Shotton then suggested that McCartney change the name of the priest, in case listeners mistook the fictional character in the song for McCartney’s own father.^[6]

The song is often described as a lament for lonely people^[7] or a commentary on post-war life in Britain.^[8][9]

McCartney couldn’t decide how to end the song, and Shotton finally suggested that the two lonely people come together too late as Father McKenzie conducts Eleanor Rigby’s funeral. At the time, Lennon rejected the idea out of hand, but McCartney said nothing and used the idea to finish off the song, later acknowledging Shotton’s help.^[6]

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