Is the Beatles' song Elanor Rigby based on a true story, or was it made up?

Answer 1

Elanor Rigby is based on a real person that met the Beatlesin the 60's beleive it or not , she mad (castings) of famous peoples penis's, she did Jimmy Hendrix , as she claims to be her most valued, thus the Lyric's "Elanor, gee i think your swell, you really do me well" . Like 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:

"I was sitting at the piano when I thought of it. The first few bars just came to me, and I got this name in my head... "Daisy Hawkins picks up the rice in the church". I don't know why. I couldn't think of much more so I put it away for a day. Then the name Father McCartney came to me, and all the lonely people. But I thought that people would think it was supposed to be about my Dad sitting knitting his socks. Dad's a happy lad. So I went through the telephone book and I got the name McKenzie."[1]
Others believe that Father McKenzie refers to 'Father' Tommy McKenzie, who was the compere at Northwich Memorial Hall [1] [2]

He originally imagined Daisy as a young 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. Gradually, McCartney developed the theme of the loneliness of old age, morphing his song from the story of a young girl to that of an elderly woman whose loneliness is worse for having to clean up after happy couples.

McCartney said he came up with the name Eleanor from actress Eleanor Bron, with whom he had starred 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."[2]

Answer 2

a million. Lawrence of Arabia 2. Schindler's list 3. a guy For All Seasons 4. Patton 5. Bonnie and Clyde 6. In chilly Blood 7. the finished get away 8. The Diary of Anne Frank 9. Anne of the Thousand Days 10. Becket

Answer 3

True. I have her face in a jar by the door....bought it on E-bay.

Answer 4

I think they wrote it from their minds that where in another state not in this universe.But I like it.