Here’s the story behind the real people who may have inspired characters in the song. The song tells the story of a sad, lonely woman named Eleanor Rigby and an ineffectual preacher named Father ...

Paul McCartney recently penned an essay for The New Yorker about writing "Eleanor Rigby." The Beatles' beloved song was inspired by "an old lady" that McCartney helped out while growing up.

But there may well have been a real Eleanor Rigby, and Annie Mawson says she may have proof. Mawson runs a charity called Sunbeams Trust, which uses music to help people with physical and mental ...

I was looking for a name that sounded natural. Eleanor Rigby sounded natural.” The cemetery where the real Eleanor Rigby was laid to rest is where Paul McCartney, top left, met John Lennon ...

The song has had so much influence that a statue honoring Eleanor Rigby -- be she real or imagined -- has been built in downtown Liverpool. Passers-by often place flowers there. Owen said “every ...

But “Eleanor Rigby’s” most direct antecedent may be ... Meanwhile, for much of the audience, the real foreign country may be this rarefied world in which Eleanor — whose “disappearance ...

"The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby: Them" actually began as two separate ... who's only done shorts until now, but shows a real ease with pacing and compositions. A scene of one person following ...

The story, a pared-down combination of the “Him/Her” films that studied each character separately, follows Eleanor Rigby (Jessica Chastain ... the things that real relationships are supposed to be ...

"The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby" debuted at the 2013 Toronto International ... date early in Conor and Eleanor’s courtship, the real drama opens in earnest, cutting abruptly to a scene ...