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The Beatles - Eleanor Rigby (From "Yellow Submarine")
Beatles ^ | 8/1966 | Beatles

Posted on 04/19/2022 11:28:12 PM PDT by DallasBiff

Celebrating the 50th anniversary of Revolver with the digital release of the video for “Eleanor Rigby”

(Excerpt) Read more at youtube.com ...


TOPICS: Music/Entertainment
KEYWORDS: beatles; charlesmanson; eleanorrigby; georgeharrison; johnlennon; paulmccartney; ringostarr; yellowsubmarine
"Eleanor Rigby", is one of those love/hate songs by The Beatles.

You tell a person, that you like it, the other person says they hate it.

1 posted on 04/19/2022 11:28:12 PM PDT by DallasBiff
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To: DallasBiff

I’ve always liked Eleanor Rigby. How McCartney thought up those lyrics is mind boggling.


2 posted on 04/19/2022 11:32:04 PM PDT by Macho MAGA Man
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To: Macho MAGA Man

I think it’s about scrambled eggs.


3 posted on 04/19/2022 11:37:26 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: DallasBiff

Rubber Soul was released in 1966, 56 years ago. Not 50.


4 posted on 04/19/2022 11:37:45 PM PDT by Macho MAGA Man
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To: Macho MAGA Man

I meant Revolver, not Rubber Soul.


5 posted on 04/19/2022 11:38:35 PM PDT by Macho MAGA Man
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To: Macho MAGA Man
I’ve always liked Eleanor Rigby. How McCartney thought up those lyrics is mind boggling

Supposedly Paul used a cemetary as a shortcut to school and went past a gravestone of "Eleanor Rigby".

6 posted on 04/19/2022 11:40:18 PM PDT by DallasBiff (Lautenberg The Forefather of "The Nanny State!")
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Yughhh is my reaction. Always has been. But… people like this song. Okay.


7 posted on 04/19/2022 11:44:57 PM PDT by stanne
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To: nickcarraway
Wasn't that Yesterday, not Eleanor Rigby?
8 posted on 04/20/2022 12:14:23 AM PDT by Alvin Diogenes
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To: DallasBiff

Like John and Paul both claimed to have written it. It is one of two (?) I believe they ‘disagreed’ on. Or as George Martin once said, it was a John kind of song, and inspiration counts, right ?


9 posted on 04/20/2022 12:42:25 AM PDT by erlayman
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I think it’s about scrambled eggs.

That’s what McCartney originally called “Yesterday.”

10 posted on 04/20/2022 1:23:59 AM PDT by JaguarXKE (Liberalism is a cancer on our nation.)
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To: DallasBiff

Incredibly beautiful and haunting song,,,certainly a unique song for the time. It has aged so well, as a lot of the Beatles music has done.


11 posted on 04/20/2022 4:14:12 AM PDT by Adder (Proud member of the FJBLGB community: /s is implied where applicable.)
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To: DallasBiff
..."All the lonely people
Where do they all come from
All the lonely people
Where do they all belong"...

Questions a 7 year-old couldn't begin to answer, but ponder anyway because it was The Beatles who made you think about it.
12 posted on 04/20/2022 4:41:40 AM PDT by equaviator (There's nothing like the universe to bring you down to earth.)
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To: DallasBiff

Went to see the NEW Beatle movie when it came out.

I didn’t know that it was a CARTOON! I left shortly after.


13 posted on 04/20/2022 7:55:12 AM PDT by faucetman (Just the facts, ma'am, Just the facts )
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To: Macho MAGA Man

Are you sure? From where I’m sitting that seems pretty near impossible.


14 posted on 04/20/2022 11:30:03 AM PDT by muir_redwoods (Freedom isn't free, liberty isn't liberal and you'll never find anything Right on the Left)
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To: Macho MAGA Man

The Beatles were all “20-somethings” when they disbanded and wrote/released (on average) an album every 6 months.

During “Revolver”, their ages were “only” 26, 26, 24, 23

Their great trilogy...
Rubber Soul - released Dec,1965
Revolver - released Aug,1966
Sgt Pepper - released May,1967


15 posted on 04/20/2022 11:54:15 AM PDT by newfreep (“Leftism, under all of its brand names, is a severe, violent & evil mental disorder.”)
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To: DallasBiff

Prefer the Spike Jones / Doodles Weaver version.


16 posted on 04/20/2022 7:34:49 PM PDT by Some Fat Guy in L.A. (Still bitterly clinging to rational thought despite its unfashionability)
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