All The Lonely People, Where Do They All Come From?

3.27.2007

Plugs.
None today buckos, sorry. Been super busy with work and crap like that.

You are Listening too. . .
Eleanor Rigby, by the Beatles, of course dedicated to Angry Man, not becuase he is lonely, but just because.

One of the Beatles most unique, popular, and recognizable songs, mainly a McCartney tune, but there seems to be agreement that Lennon contributed a bit to the song. With the George Martin's 8 string orchestric composition and it's striking lyrics about old age, loneliness, and death; this continued the departure from poppy love songs that began with Rubber Soul. Especially for a mostly McCartney piece, this was a very dark song for him (Most of his songs were meloncholic on this album, his love life was falling apart), as well as a few others on this album (I will play For No One, later). McCartney tells an interesting story about how the song began.

"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.".

As McCartney adjusted the song a bit, it became more about loneliness. Suprisingly, the name Eleanor Rigby came out of McCartney subconcious, while he stated he got the first name from a movie his then girlfriend Jane Asher was in, they later found out there was a old grave in Liverpool of a woman who died in 1939, with the same name.

Also, you immediatley notice, none of the Beatles play instruments on the track, though Lennon and Harrison provide backing vocals. Backing is a string octet composed of four violins, two cellos, and two violas all working off a score written by producer George Martin. Martin admits the score is influenced heavily from the movie Psycho.

All though the song was not the first pop hit to deal with death and loneliness (Leader of Pack was the first), the Beatles had taken a meloncholic vision of death to the top of the pop charts with this song. Several songs came after similar in subject and mood, Sounds of Silence, and Paint it Black were all released with in 6 months of Eleanor Rigby. This song, by many is also considered the mid point of the Beatles career and evolution; from a live playing pop band, to a band more akin to rock, psychedelica, and experimental studio music.

Also interestingly enough, this was a double A side with Yellow Submarine.

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