Eleanor Rigby By: The Beatles Album: Revolver Year: 1966

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Eleanor RigbyBy The BeatlesAlbum
RevolverYear 1966

• By Ian Jeffrey

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Lyrics

• Ah, look at all the lonely peopleAh, look at all
  the lonely peopleEleanor Rigby, picks up the
  riceIn the church where a wedding has beenLives
  in a dreamWaits at the window, wearing the
  faceThat she keeps in a jar by the doorWho is
  it for?All the lonely peopleWhere do they all
  come from?All the lonely peopleWhere do they
  all belong?Father McKenzie, writing the
  wordsof a sermon that no one will hearNo one
  comes nearLook at him working, darning his
  socksIn the night when there's nobody thereWhat
  does he care?

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Lyrics

• All the lonely peopleWhere do they all come
  from?All the lonely peopleWhere do they all
  belong?Ah, look at all the lonely peopleAh,
  look at all the lonely peopleEleanor Rigby,
  died in the churchAnd was buried along with her
  nameNobody cameFather McKenzie, wiping the
  dirtFrom his hands as he walks from the graveNo
  one was savedAll the lonely people(Ah, look at
  all the lonely people)Where do they all come
  from?All the lonely people(Ah, look at all the
  lonely people)Where do they all belong?

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The Meaning of Eleanor Ribgy

• Eleanor Rigby was an old lonely, who no one cared
  about because she had isolated herself from
  everyone else. She had a fake facial impression
  pretending that she was happy, when she was
  actually lonely and depressed. Nobody cared about
  her death because she lonely, no one came to her
  funeral. The minister did not care about Eleanor
  wiping the dirt means getting rid of something
  and forgetting about it.

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Citations

• Works Cited
• The Beatles. 1963. Musoguide. N.p., n.d. Web. 14
  May 2010. lthttp//musosguide.com/?listen-do-you-wa
  nt-to-know-a-secret-thirteen-under-appreciated-bea
  tles-songs/?7958gt.
• Beatles Bible. Eleanor Rigby. Rev. of Eleanor
  RIgby. Beatles Bible. N.p., 2008. Web. 15 May
  2010. lthttp//www.beatlesbible.com/?songs/?eleanor
  -rigby/gt.

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Citations

• Britannica. The Beatles Biography. Editorial.
  bio.com. Britannica, 2000. Web. 13 May 2010.
  lthttp//www.biography.com/?articles/?The-Beatles-9
  203410?part0gt.
• - - -. Paul McCarntey Biography. Editorial.
  bio.com. Britannica, 2000. Web. 13 May 2010.
  lthttp//www.biography.com/?articles/?Paul-McCartne
  y-9390850?part0gt.

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Citations

• Matthew, NY. Eleanor Rigby. Songfacts By The
  Beatles. Songfacts, n.d. Web. 11 May 2010.
  lthttp//www.songfacts.com/?detail.php?id102gt.
• Paul McCartney. N.d. pattimurachoir. JPEG file.
• Steele, Tommy. Analysis Eleanor Rigby. 1982. The
  Culture Club. Web. 13 May 2010.
  lthttp//www.thecultureclub.net/?2009/?12/?03/?anal
  ysis-eleanor-rigby-by-the-beatles/gt.

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Lyric Meaning

• She had a fake facial impression pretending that
  she was happy, when she was actually lonely and
  depressed.
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Father Mckenzie

• The songwriter, Paul McCartney, was originally
  going to say Father McCartney because it was
  named after his Father. But he thought it would
  freak out his Father if he did that, so he looked
  through a telephone book and replaced it with
  Father Mckenzie
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Onomatopoeia

• When they say the phrase ah, look at all the
  lonely people the first word ah is not a word,
  but an onomatopoeia. Which an imitation of sound
  using a word.
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Paul McCartney

• Born in Liverpol in June 18, 1942, he is a
  British songwriter, composer, and bass player for
  the British rock and pop band, The Beatles.
• McCartney has 60 gold records and more than 100
  million singles, he is the most commercially
  successful performer and composer in popular
  music.
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The Beatles

• One of the most famous British bands in the
  world.
• Formed in Liverpol, Merseyside in England in the
  year 1957. The first members were John Lennon and
  Paul McCartney and had 2 other members and then
  George Harrison and Ringo Starr. The bands music
  has inspired many and changed lives. They also
  created many new ways of music with experiments
  cont. Back
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The Beatles cont..

• And also created the stereo sound, where some
  sounds would come from the right and the other
  would come from the left.
• The Beatles changed the music world forever and
  in 1970 the band broke up.
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Imagery

• In this phrase, its showing imagery on what
  Father McKenzie was doing. It gives specific
  details, he was wiping the dirt as he walked from
  the grave, which means someone was being buried.
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Eleanor Rigby

• Where did the name come from?
• The name Eleanor Rigby came from two different
  areas. Eleanor came from the actress Eleanor Bron
  who starred in the film Help which was a
  Beatles movie.
• Rigby came from a wine store name called Rigby
  and Evens Wine and Spirit Shop.
• He wanted a name that went well together and
  Eleanor Rigby just sounded right
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Lyric Meaning

• What he is talking about when he says ah, look
  at all the lonely people, is that he is
  referring to all the lonely people in the world
  who no one cares about, just like Eleanor Rigby.
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Assonance

• The phrase name, Nobody came is an assonance
  because it is the repetition of a vowel sound,
  and came and name have similar vowel sounds.
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Theme

• The theme of these lyrics, is that there are
  lonely people in the world, and its the people
  of the world to make sure that there are as
  little lonely people in the world as there can
  be.
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Repetition

• This lyric is showing repetition because its
  repeated a few times throughout the song as the
  chorus and background lyrics of this song.
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