Paul McCartney has spoken often about his inspiration for the Beatles song “Eleanor Rigby”, but when a grave was identified 20 years later bearing the name ‘Eleanor Rigby’ everyone was surprised – including McCartney himself. In this video we investigate the UNFEASIBLE coincidence of Eleanor Rigby.
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Cub scouts cleaning a car for ‘Bob a job week’ Copyright National Archives
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One of the quotes from Paul is mis-credited in this video. My sincere apologies. The second quote attributed to ‘Associated Press’ is from the ‘Life in Lyrics’ podcast – Ep. 1 ‘Eleanor Rigby’.
I do hope that you have enjoyed this video.
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