Eleanor Rigby reaction-Way ahead of its time(first time hearing)

Eleanor Rigby Beatle reaction music video.This is one of the most talked about Fab 4 songs.
Written predominantly by Paul McCartney,the song is very sparsely recorded,with just the Cello and Violin and just maybe some strings.
Enjoy this Eleanor Rigby reaction.
#johnlennon
#paulMcCartney
#ringostarr
#georgeHarrison

[@johnjedennett2206]

He was 23/24 when he wrote this! Wtf! This man was , is, will always be a genius

[@thesilvershining]

I still can’t wrap my head around it!

[@michaelsidkyphd]

The first time in History when a Rock Band ignored all the rules of Rock Music. There are no guitars or drums. Only classical strings. Amazing.

[@TheDivayenta]

The fifth Beatle, George Martin was an essential component in their arrangements!

[@keithwilson1554]

Stand By Me by Ben.E.King all strings

[@nanoffyourbesyness9577]

@@keithwilson1554 What about the bass on that ?

[@keithwilson1554]

@@nanoffyourbesyness9577 It sounds like an Upright Bass another string instrument

[@eziospaghettiauditore8369]

@@TheDivayenta but the song was written by Paul McCartney completely Paul McCartney was able to play the instruments that he was having George Martin Direct

[@celinhabr1]

Paul is a bloody genius. One of my favorites ever.

[@booksteer7057]

Is that really your picture? I am enchanted! :-o

[@jamesrawlins735]

Yes Paul is a genius - but this is one of the Beatles' songs that we also have to credit the genius of George Martin, who really brought Paul's imagination to life.

[@hw343434]

And this song was co-written by ALL the Beatles.George Harrison wrote the main hook. Even Ringo contributed lyrics, and Pete Shotten is said to have linked the two characters together for the third verse

[@jamesrawlins735]

@@hw343434 Well there's doubt that Lennon did much of anything at all on the song. Even though he claimed that he wrote at least half of the lyrics, Lennon's friend Pete Shotten (who was there at Lennon's house when the song was completed) said that Lennon's contribution was "absolutely nil". Lennon even apparently didn't like the third verse, where Father Mackenzie performed the funeral. As much as I love Lennon and appreciate his massive talent, I think some of his recollections in the 70s stem from anger issues with Paul and the influence of Allen Klein.

[@hw343434]

@@jamesrawlins735 well in that case John’s friend Pete took his place. But it’s basically a McCartney/Harrison/Lennon (and/or Shotton)/Starr songwriting credit

[@craigmccausland1183]

Can not go wrong with the Beatles! "Wearing the face that she keeps in a jar by the door Who is it for?" They were brilliant song writers, with very clever word play.

[@mariosandri4010]

Arguably the best verse in a Beatles song. This song gives me shivers and wets my eyes.

[@markbarnwell942]

I think that often.

[@stephenqualtrough7322]

I have checked out the Aretha Franklin version It is very different with Aretja adopting the persona of Ekeanir. " I'm Eleanor Rigby ' she says upfront in the first line. A very interesting interpretation

[@mariosandri4010]

@@stephenqualtrough7322 After reading your comment I had to check it immediately. Great R'nB' arrangement, and monstrous vocals, as expected. Still you cannot perfect what is already perfect. Paul's neutral singing of the verses, almost detached, emphasizes the desolation/indignation of the refrain.

[@stephenqualtrough7322]

@@mariosandri4010 I agree Thecovers add to our appreciation of the original but they very rarely improve on these Beatles classics

[@debbiechang5781]

Another gem from the band whose very existence was a long evolution.

[@sourisvoleur4854]

Someone should comment on this: When McCartney gave the song to George Martin (Beatles' producer), he asked that the strings be played "dry" i.e. without vibrato. (Martin wrote the string arrangement based on Paul's melody.) George told this to the players (an octet that was basically (to an ignoramus such as myself) a double quartet: 4 violins, 2 violas, 2 cellos), and they refused; they said it would sound awful. Sensing he had a revolt on his hands, Martin said, "Tell you what. Let's record it both ways, and see which one we like better." The players agreed, and when they had done both, they agreed that the "dry" way was better. So Paul got what he wanted and Martin avoided a mutiny that would have likely resulted in having to fire those performers and hire others. Just another example of how George Martin was just the producer the Beatles needed, and how much he added to their sound and I think their success.

[@buddyneher9359]

Great story! And maybe those high-falutin' classical session musicians gained some respect for the long-haired lout from Liddypool!

[@barryw2659]

That wasn't the only time George made a 'listen first, decide after' suggestion. When he first heard 'Yesterday' he suggested to Mac the idea of violins. Having never heard classical instruments on a pop song before, Mac didn't think it would be good. George said "Let's try a version of it and see".The rest, of course, is history. You are correct, he was a genius and put in a perfect place to help the Beatles grow.

[@sourisvoleur4854]

@@barryw2659 - I did not know that story. Thank you!

[@johnp515]

@@barryw2659 It’s not true that he’d never heard strings on a pop record. It was that what he had heard, most of it he didn’t like.

[@paolomargini7904]

George Martin, the real fifth Beatle.

[@stevedotwood]

always loved this lovely song. Makes you think - it's like an old photograph

[@papercup2517]

What a great analogy, Fred. Like an old, sepia toned photograph found at the bottom of a drawer, some of the details may have faded a bit or be blurry... you just stare at it, trying to understand who those people were, and the world they inhabited. ER is just like that! :-)

[@benlewisd62]

Paul is truly a lyrical genius

[@docbearmb]

Just lyrics? Musical genius, period!

[@LeChaunce]

Well, yes and no. All four Beatles and John’s childhood friend Pete Shotton contributed to the lyrics. Paul had the basic idea, John claimed to have written half, Ringo came up with the “darning his socks” line, George contributed the “ah, look at all the lonely people” refrain, and Pete Shotton suggested that Father McKenzie deliver Eleanor Rigby’s eulogy in the final verse.

[@julessabio]

@@LeChaunce According to Shotton, Paul had all the beginning, including the part of "wearing the face..." (Paul took the idea of that from a book he read as a teenager, some classic literature), George contributed with the refrain and Ringo with the phrase of the socks as you said. They all contributed with some words here and there. Pete with the idea of the final verse. He also said that he remembers that John did not contribute in that one. He tells that the only thing John did was insisting in Paul leaving the first "Father McCartney" and mocking of the Eleanor Rigby’s eulogy, which Paul took anyway

[@ewest14]

@@LeChaunce Like the other person said, John didn't contribute much of anything to this song. Paul already wrote the first verse by himself with the best line in the whole song before bringing it to anybody. Then Pete Shotton suggested Eleanor Rigby and Father McKenzie meeting at the end too late, but John made fun of it. Paul liked the idea and wrote it in later. So really, this masterpiece had nothing to do with John and John almost sabotaged this great song by making fun of a great suggestion by Pete. John said he felt hurt that Paul would ask others for help with the song instead of just himself, so I think that's part of the reason for him making fun of Pete's suggestion. John would later always talk of Paul's sabotage on his songs, but I think John was the real saboteur at times. Sorry if this post seems to go a little hard on John.

[@hw343434]

@@ewest14 this is a Beatles songwriting credit, not McCartney. Paul would never and has never written ANYTHING like this on his own. George Harrison wrote the main hook, can’t even imagine Eleanor Rigby without that musically. Lyrically, without Pete Shotton this story goes nowhere. A truly great COLLABORATION starting with Paul’s original inspiration and then going elsewhere to become a Beatles CLASSIC

[@flubblert]

It's a song about loneliness and lonely people. I don't think it's anything more complicated than that. And the jar is a makeup jar. Her makeup, her mask for the outside world. Beautifully dark and haunting song with the use of the strings.. one of the Beatles very best imo.

[@nanoffyourbesyness9577]

Yes, she makes herself look pretty, but there is nobody to notice; "Who is it for"..

[@sharidyer4332]

My thoughts too.

[@garyluciani370]

@@nanoffyourbesyness9577 yep, agree.

[@janettomlinson389]

No offence but the jar( by the door?) is her outdoor persona. Not her lipstick or mascara it is a song of intense loneliness

[@flubblert]

@@janettomlinson389 the outdoor persona she gets from her makeup.

[@dalem8332]

Masterpiece written by Paul McCartney. Love it. ♥️🎼🎶🎵🇨🇦

[@hw343434]

Written by all the Beatles

[@sharmisthachakraborty287]

@@hw343434 nope..only paul with all the lonely people by george

[@somethingyousaid5059]

I love the imagery that the lyric evokes.

[@debbieplato5107]

Always liked this song. A comment on society and how so many people although they don't show it are very lonely. The cello and the strings convey a sense loneliness much more than if they had played their usual instruments. 🇨🇦✌

[@buddyneher9359]

Also I think that their openness to musical forms/instruments not usually employed by rock 'n roll bands set them apart as actual artists, not merely genre performers.

[@yohannbiimu]

There's a story that Paul put out that years after recording this song that he found out there was an Eleanor Rigby buried in a Liverpool cemetery, and it made him wonder if he'd ever seen it when he was younger and it just sort of came to the surface while writing it. Who knows?

[@SailorBarsoom]

There's a McKenzie buried in the same churchyard.

[@newremote]

I don't think Ringo would have been bothered, to be honest. He was probably quite happy having some time off, maybe with a pint and ciggy at a pub somewhere. He was the perfect drummer for the Beatles and they all knew it.

[@YN97WA]

Great lyrics, haunting melody, played by great musicians and Paul's golden voice. What's not to love? Great reaction too.👍👍

[@TryingToBeKind]

My favorite Beatles song! The humanity, the empathy! LOVE IT!!! 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆 ❤️✌🏻✌🏻❤️

[@dingopisscreek]

Just Paul with strings. Like 'Yesterday'. Just shows how they could produce a song by one member but still under the group name. They were unique. They were miles ahead of other bands. They still are.

[@andrewft31]

Paul isn't alone on this song, John and George do harmony on the all the lonely people part, Ringo is the only one missing but he did contribute the part about the socks.

[@hw343434]

This song is a total group effort in the songwriting

[@andrewft31]

@@hw343434 correct, the hook about all the lonely people is George

[@sharmisthachakraborty287]

@@hw343434 songwriting is just paul's..just all the lonely people is george's part, thats all

[@kengause9259]

It's a song of alienation that we all feel. One of my favorite Beatles songs. Paul got the name Eleanor from the actress (Eleanor Bron) who starred in the movie "Help" and Rigby Paul got from a tombstone in a church cemetery.

[@tomcartwright7134]

This song has a theme the Beatles touched on in other songs, about alienation and feeling alone in the midst of many, all the lonely people where do they all come from, all the lonely people where do they all belong? It is a beautiful and haunting song, I never tire of hearing it and it seems to ring so truthfully in this age of unprecedented opportunities for people to communicate one with another through our technology, yet we are more isolated than ever before. The Beatles, visionaries.

[@kathrynschimpf8957]

Some of you people are like forgetting how genius John Lennon was as a songwriter!!! Him and Paul were the best songwriters that will go down in history with Mozart as the likes!! George Harrison plays lead guitar like no one's business¡!!!!! Ringo is a very awesome drummer!!;The Beatles were the Beatles!!! Take one out and it's not the Beatles aren't the Beatles aren't the Beatles anymore!!!

[@j.jennings1722]

I was a child when this song came out, at the height of Beatlemania, and it really cemented The Beatles as creating the path for pop and rock music to be art, not just entertainment, fulfilling that realization with the Sgt. Pepper album, which changed music history. I realized The Fab Four were more than a simple pop/rock band that was great at promotion, when I heard the song "If I Fell," in the movie and album A Hard Days Night." It's one of the most gorgeous songs ever made.

[@briandonovan1584]

Like Nowhere Man and Fool on the hill, this song is about all the lonely people who live alone and die alone. Paul is so outgoing he feels sad for the lonely people who never join the rest of us. I know the others where never annoyed if one of them wanted a special vibe. After all, that's what they were all about. I recommend you try "She's Leaving Home." Its a sad song and its brilliant. Beautiful melody combined with a very human and painful set of family events. Brilliant song for a brilliant fellow such as you, Harri! Cheers again from HOT Ometepe Island.

[@melenatorr]

Yes, "She's Leaving Home" is very evocative, and softly chilling. They manage to hint at an entire back story with the simplest, purest technique.

[@TheDivayenta]

And when Linda died, I’m sure he REALLY felt the loneliness.

[@keithwilson1554]

I thought the Lonely People were the Beatles Fans.

[@clemdane]

Thirding "She's Leaving Home"! And while you're there, do another of my favorites - "Fixing A Hole."

[@mikek5958]

@@melenatorr Also how it switches from third person point of view, to first person, then back to third person, then to first again is so unique. Besides the beautiful music the narrative is what engages you in the song; beyond brilliant.

[@mariaportengen2959]

A beautiful song from the album Revolver, their first album where all the songs were their own compositions. Also a great album.

[@robertsaul234]

A Hard Day's Night (uk)

[@mariaportengen2959]

@@robertsaul234 yes, you're right. Also al their own compositions. I remember I went to that movie when it was just in the cinema. I was about 8 years old. They also were in Holland. How time flies.

[@pablomets]

Rubber Soul was before Revolver and also all the songs in it were their own compositions. A hard Days Night was their first with no cover songs.

[@mariaportengen2959]

@@pablomets I must do my homework better! Haha.

[@robertsaul234]

@@mariaportengen2959 ✌

[@danielharper9596]

"Tomorrow Never Knows" is mind bending and "She Said She Said" is a nice piece of hard rock.

[@johnianknox1629]

Harri, this was Paul's finest hour, if you want to hear John's listen to "Strawberry Fields Forever ", stay safe buddy and cheerio from Glasgow.

[@bemused9522]

When you are feeling truly alone and invisible, this song will become clear. Peace and love ❣️

[@yohannbiimu]

The song that follows this on the Revolver album is "I'm Only Sleeping," and it's a very revealing look at John Lennon's propensity for not wanting to do anything.

[@mjames4709]

Great song.

[@p.millard557]

This is a bit of a vicious comment

[@buddyneher9359]

@@p.millard557 I believe John was known for saying that about himself, that he was the laziest person around. He could usually be found lying down when anyone came looking for him.

[@hw343434]

Amazing how a guy with a “propensity to not want to do anything” created the Beatles, then created “Imagine” and countless classics and basically changed the world

[@wsjustice]

I put my self back then. After all their hit songs in the 60s and then to come out with this. Leading off with the hook- harmonies, then just lyrics and cellos and violins. Such an epic song.

[@donw804]

Another example of the added genius George Martin brought to the Beatles.

[@eziospaghettiauditore8369]

Paul wrote Every Melody and harmony for this song George Martin just had to translate it because he couldn't write down the music for the players to understand Any other musician could have done it worked with Paul and gotten these specific notes he wanted down

[@hw343434]

@@eziospaghettiauditore8369 Fake news. George Martin composed the string arrangement

[@harrietmiller3982]

Thank you for finally getting to Eleanor Rigby🎶. I have always appreciated the fact that all the lonely people were "seen" in this song. Most people are so busy with their lives that they miss so much of what is going on around them in plain sight. The lyrics so invoke such a description that it is pure genius. And it is Eleanor not Elana. Thanks Harri🦋✌️

[@HarriBestReactions]

Sounds like Eleana..but i am actually saying Elea-NOR..Must be my accent😀

[@francisheperi4180]

Insightful comment appreciated.

[@iamtheralwus]

@@HarriBestReactions Try El-a-nor. 😘

[@jvs333]

My dad was a violinist (cello too) when I played this song for him back in the 60s he would play along with it (R.I.P. dad love you)

[@beatler]

It's "simply" a song about loneliness. No Beatle instruments involved, just a double quartet of strings. Paul's voice and John and George join briefly in the "ah look at all the lonely people". Paul says it is like a little play. There are two protagonists, one is Eleanor, who hides her real face and picks up the rice of other weddings. The other is father McKenzie, a priest who writes sermons and darns his socks in the night, all for no one because nobody goes to his services. At he end of the song Eleanor dies, and father McKenzie buries her, so the two lonely protagonists meet each other, but they continue to be lonely.

[@TheDivayenta]

Producer George Martin was called the fifth Beatle because of his brilliant arrangements of their songs.

[@johnp515]

He didn’t arrange their songs on his own. He was a facilitator of what The Beatles wanted. This is what Martin said about Eleanor Rigby and the arrangement for strings: “Paul came round to my flat one day and he played the piano and I played the piano and I took a note of his music…”

[@hw343434]

@@johnp515 so are you saying Paul wrote the string arrangement? Lol seriously doubt it. Just like George Martin wrote all the strings on “Yesterday” he probably did the same here, based on Paul’s melody

[@glenmacdonald7005]

Yah Harri. Another one of my favs. This Beatles road trip is great.

[@nonosays]

A woman would say " I'm going to put on me face.", meaning make-up. Eleanor (El-en-nor) is representative of all the sad, lonely people we see all around us. A classic.

[@marvinwilliamson811]

Beautiful song and maybe one of Paul's greatest. "This Boy" and "If I Fell" are my favorites.

[@fredneecher1746]

This song is written in Dorian mode. That's fancy musical stuff, commonly used in Baroque composition.

[@phillipecook3227]

The first time I heard this being pumped out on the radio I was perhaps 6 or 7 years old. At that age I hadn't a hope of expressing in words the visceral effect it had on me - it was at least 4 decades later I found out it was George Martin's masterstroke in to get McCartney to agree , with his suggestion that the song would benefit from adding a string quartet ( of all things). McCartney is on record as saying he initially baulked at the suggestion ( I mean who would seriously add a string quartet to a rock track in 1965?) Adding the string quartet was a masterstroke because I think it gives the song its overall dark quality ( especially the cello) which could never be replicated by rock band instrumentation. It was only a couple of years ago I heard the best ever description of this track " like a Dickens novel in miniature".

[@dirkdanko2153]

Ray Charles does a very soul stirring version of this incredible tune .

[@timstrobel7828]

This was off the greatest album of all time. Revolver. Ringo wasn't upset at all...this was when the studio, became.....just another instrument. Her tombstone was is at a cemetery where John and Paul would meet in their past. Although, Paul claimed the name eleanor was an actress and Rigbys, was a department store. Great reaction, Harri.

[@cosybully]

I have seen the grave of Eleanor Rigby in Liverpool while on a Beatles tour of England, and I wonder if Paul made up the story to protect this woman's grave from some of the crazier fans of the band. Think of the graffiti around the grave of Jim Morrison in Paris; I think this is the reason the grave of John Lennon's mother is still unmarked.

[@papercup2517]

@@cosybully I hadn't ever thought of that, and just assumed it was a strange coincidence, or that Paul must have seen and remembered it subliminally, since he insists that's not how he came to the name... But, your suggestion would make sense, and it would be very thoughtful of Paul to do so. In the 'official' version of the story, IIRC the 'Eleanor' was from the British actress Eleanor Bron, who starred with them in the movie 'Help'. Paul said he needed those 3 syllables (having got the melody already worked out) and Eleanor fitted. He then needed two syllables for a surname - DA-da-da, DA-da - and one day he passed that 'Rigby's' sign on a building, while driving past, and that was it - he had the last name for the woman in his song. As with many Beatles lyrics, I guess we can choose to believe whatever story/explanation we prefer! :-)

[@cosybully]

@@papercup2517 Yes, we can choose to believe what we want. I think a lot of things the Beatles said when they were interviewed were not true, but for good reason. For example, John claimed the song "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds" was not about LSD, that a drawing brought home by his son Julian inspired him to write it. Maybe his son's drawing gave him the idea for the song, but the lyrics obviously allude to the LSD experience; if John admitted the song was about LSD, the album may have been banned from the radio by the BBC, and the band members did not want to risk that. I also believe they wanted people who listened to their music to draw their own conclusions about what each song meant to them, rather than being told what the song meant and what inspired it. A good example is the first stanza of "A Day in the Life." Paul claimed it had nothing to with the recent death in an automobile accident of the Guinness heir Tara Browne, a friend of the Beatles who was a big part of the social scene in London in the 1960s. John said that he was inspired by events reported in the newspapers at that time, and the Daily Mail had stories about Tara Browne and 4,000 potholes in the streets of Blackburn, Lancashire on the same day, January 17, 1967. I think this is an instance of John and Paul not wanting people to attribute the same meaning to each of their songs.

[@papercup2517]

@@cosybully Yep.. quite likely... Also, I think that for highly creative people, inspiration can come from multiple sources; you won't necessarily know exactly how it all came together in your mind and popped out as a work of art... the imagination works in complex ways, like a kind of alchemical processing of anything and everything, major and minor, you might have ever experienced, to produce the gold. So something that happened or something you read about or a drug experience you had years ago might suddenly gel with something that just happened today (reading the newspaper, your kid telling you about their painting) that produces the immediate trigger for a creative idea. So that's what you probably tell people when they ask - the immediate triggering event. However, if it hadn't been for all those prior experiences, it may not have triggered anything! Those are my thoughts on it, anyway, FWTW. :-) Re LITSWD - you know Julian's painting of his little kindergarten friend Lucy, flying in the sky with 'diamonds' (stars) still exists and is viewable online? it's very sweet. I expect he got confused, as I did as a young child, about the difference between diamond and stars, having often heard the old nursery rhyme 'Twinkle twinkle little star... like a diamond in the sky...' Also re LITS - another influence which John has cited was Lewis Carroll's wonderful children's story, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. Most kids growing up in the 50s would have read this classic work of Victorian English, quite possibly drug-influenced surrealism, or had it read to them, and seen the wonderful, slightly creepy but evocative pen and ink illustrations by Tenniel...There's a clear reference I think in the line 'Newspaper taxis appear on the shore, waiting to take you away..' to the scene in the railway carriage where amongst Alice's strange travel companions was a man dressed (or was he made of it, I forget now..) entirely in newspaper.. Such images, I think stay with you for life - and who knows when they might pop into your mind again in some creative moment.

[@cosybully]

@@papercup2517 I am embarrassed to admit that I have not read "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland," but it is on my list of books that I plan to read before I get much older. My favorite image from "Lucy" is rocking - horse people eating marshmallow pies.

[@39thala]

My college instructor back in the late 70's actually made us analyze the lyrics to this song in creative writing class.

[@pixiewings21_9]

Paul McCartney had this knack for tapping into the feelings of women, especially lonely women - Eleanor Rigby, Another Day, She's Leaving Home, For No One...as examples. Two little bits of trivia: Paul was inspired by the movie Psycho when it came to the violins on the track. And the "ah, look at all the lonely people" refrain was George H's idea.

[@jkronen1000]

I remember when this song came out - I was 12 and I loved it. My parents didn’t want me playing it so I bought the record and went to my friends house to play it

[@MusicLover-dt7ic]

heck yeah been patiently waiting for this one. Thanks. One of my favs.

[@topcat2069]

"Art is not there to give you things to observe Art gives you things to Feel"

[@rubbersole79]

Paul wrote this as a teenager. A real prodigy.

[@barryw2659]

Surprisingly, this song never made #1 in the States. It reached #2. But now it is, imo, one of their most admired songs when talking about their sophistication in imagery, poetry and mood.

[@terben7339]

It was, however, #1 in the UK for 4 weeks.

[@charlesbunch8383]

Ringo might have been happy he got to take a break! LOL

[@noracola5285]

If it weren't two years before I'd say he was recovering from those blisters on his fingers!

[@docbearmb]

Yes. No blisters on his hands this time!

[@cathyhetzel5944]

I LOVE THIS SONG AND THE MUSIC IS SO HAUNTING!!

[@eziospaghettiauditore8369]

Paul is just as much a lyrical genius as John

[@hw343434]

No 😆 specially if you compare their solo careers it’s not even comparable

[@bruceheckerman7343]

I have nearly 2000 songs on Spotify and still have never heard a better bass player than Paul Mccartney.

[@thesilvershining]

He is VERY good. He always wrote basslines that perfectly fit the songs!

[@mariaportengen2959]

Such a beautiful classic, with real classic music. I love it. 🎻🎻🎶🎶

[@nickperkins8477]

That song is haunting.

[@john0597]

Harry you know what I'm only just recently found your video the other day and I really enjoy your video reactions The Beatles are my number one group and always will be great video

[@arturyastremskiy9656]

Pls do She's Leaving Home Greeting from Ukraine btw!

[@snakelite61]

Agreed. The orchestral arrangement is gorgeous and it tells a melancholy story. One of their best, I think.

[@andredeassis9423]

This song has a somewhat macabre history, and it has to do with the name of the song. It turns out that the name Eleanor Rigby, came from the name of a daughter of a friend of Paul's at the time, he liked the name. Rigby, it was the name of a liquor store. However, it exists in the churchyard where he met Jhon, a cemetery, and there is a tombstone with the name Eleonor Rigby. And in the music it says that she died in the church and was buried in it. This story not only exists, but was also proven by Paul himself. I would like to give you a tip if you are interested, there is a Brazilian channel called The Beatles School, I think you would like to take a look.

[@SailorBarsoom]

There's a McKenzie buried in the same churchyard, but Paul says he didn't know that when he wrote the song.

[@fidge54]

Masterpiece

[@stedevo3812]

Thats one of the most simplistic songs the beatles ever done, but the arrangement is absolutely top notch. It makes you listen, it makes you get drawn into the story of a woman that never had a wedding, was never getting married, only in her tired on depressive mind

[@davidwillis691]

I too think you should try the fun song, You Know My Name (Look Up The Number). I've heard it was one of Paul's favorites. It's crazy good!

[@CuriousGeorge1111]

As I heard it, the song is exactly what it appears to be: an exploration of loneliness, and recognition of invisible people. Producer George Martin--the fifth Beatle--composed the string arrangement, which he based on Otto Preminger's stabbing soundtrack to Psycho, which is great in itself. This is from their psychedelic phase, though this song stands in stark contrast, as so many of their records do.

[@charlesyateschalfant]

Another classic from the greatest band of all time. IMHO.

[@ronsandahl274]

According to George Martin's son, Paul had seen Hitchcock's film Psycho while writing Eleanor Rigby and was struck by the slashing violins in the score. So he gave the soundtrack to George Martin and Martin constructed the orchestrations with that in mind.

[@Tica..77]

This song always makes me sad 😞 (there’s an Elenor Rigby statue on Stanley Street, in Liverpool). Plaque reads: "Dedicated to All the Lonely People". Ty Harri ;-) 🤍✨Tica

[@nickperkins8477]

That song is so great!!

[@kpmac1]

One of my favorite Beatles songs. It's so melancholy lyrically and musically and the string arrangement is perfect. This was an interesting choice for the Revolver album because the rest of the album is so guitar driven.

[@liegebricking]

This is Paul's .amazing piece of music.the other members sings harmony

[@marthadigges7436]

One of my faves.

[@martingreen2633]

I've said this on many of your Beatles reactions.... The one undeniable fact is that we are still talking about the four men 51 years after they broke up

[@amirtal3268]

One hint- paul originally wrote “father McCartney”, bat it was to much, so they opened a telephone book and peaked the next name, which was McKenzie.

[@cspringer333]

opening to Beatles animated movie "Yellow Submarine" . A must watch for Beatle Fans

[@e1e2t3]

George Martin, who arranged those slashing strings, was inspired by Bernard Herrmann's famous score to Hitchcock's "Psycho".

[@John-fk3rv]

Great insights. Pleasure to see someone who appreciates and understands music snd conveys it so well. Cool Cat

[@juancarlosgonzalezmartinez8793]

ALl 4 contribute something on the song... i think Ringo constributed with the part "Darning his socks in the night when there's nobody there" ANd George create the part "Ahhhhh Look at all the lonely People"... John said he wrote almost all the Lyrics but I Think that´s too much XD... regards!

[@brianparker663]

Good comments. The only real disputes on the songwriting front between L&M were on this and In My Life. Paul claims much more involvement with the latter than is normally acknowledged and John with the former - but of course no one can really know now.

[@julessabio]

Pete Shotton who was there remembers Ringo, George and himself helping with the song. He said that the only thing John did was mocking about his idea of Eleanor Rigby’s eulogy at the end. But who knows.

[@brianparker663]

@@julessabio - Sounds right. Sorry to say that John could be a bit "off" about other people's efforts. He mocked Let It Be mercilessly and derided Abbey Road's long medley - both now considered classics - so his musical radar was not always the most accurate. But we all have our little ways don't we?....:-)

[@julessabio]

@@brianparker663 ​Yes, that's true. We all can be wrong or annoying sometimes. John did lots of excellent songs and breakthroughs in music. I have nothing to say of him. He said he was a bit mad at Paul because it was a good song and Paul asked for help to others and not particular to him as he used to do in the first years. He claimed that after that reunion Peter talks about, he did help Paul with the lyrics. However, Peter said that the song was practically finished. What John recalled may have been true and he might have helped with the ending. That would be curious because he was making fun of that part, but maybe he changed his mind. I can understand his annoyance (I don't know if this word is properly used in here). All their songs were Lennon-McCartney, that was the partnership and the arrangement. I guess I would have also expected Paul asking John for help. And Paul seems to have a self-sufficient personality that may be irritating for some people.

[@eziospaghettiauditore8369]

George did not create the ah look at all the lonely people

[@christhornycroft3686]

George Martin’s fingerprints are all over this track.

[@chefg_murder1191]

This song was a poem in my 10th grade english book... and spent 2 weeks deciphering. JS I'm that old,.10th grade was 1987.

[@garyluciani370]

Father Mc Kenzie's writing the sermon to be read at Eleanor' funeral. No one will hear, no one comes to the funeral. Ah look at all the lonely people, where do they all come from? Beautifully melancholic song.

[@dannygriffith6185]

The string octet was inspired...via George Martin....by Bernard Hermann who did the soundtracks to several memorable Hitchcock films.

[@richhahn2443]

My favorite song. In my mind, it is tied to Donovan's Sunshine Superman from the summer of 1966.

[@markdettra1794]

Probably the deepest song Paul ever wrote - i think , about alienation in modern life . Hoards of citizens who can't find fulfillment trying to satisfy their soul with the devices of society , and falling flat. I'm glad i learned George Martin wrote the string arrangement. I had always thought Paul worked that out. We can work it out.

[@iarocks44]

This is considered not jsut a great song, but a very good piece of literature. It follows the scottish ode framework (at least based on my English teacher!). It is an amazing song. One of my top 3 Beatles songs of all time. glad you liked it. Norwegian Wood and While My Guitar Gently Sleeps and you will cover my top 3.

[@reXdownhamOG]

I used this for an English class project in 1968. The Beatles were writing great lyrics at this point. This song was the one that brought the concept of universal loneliness to my attention.

[@Broomrider1492]

I was ten years old when I first heard the Beatles. Love this song and VoicePlay did an amazing cover of it.

[@cathyhetzel5944]

Brilliant!!

[@markamos1911]

Originally it was "Miss Daisy Hawkins" until Paul decided to change it to "Eleanor Rigby". He says he doesn't know where that name came from, but in the graveyard of the church, St. Peter's, where Paul went to see The Quarrymen (John's first band) perform, and he met John for the first time, there is a gravestone for an Eleanor Rigby who died in 1939. www.thesun.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/nintchdbpict000347122663.jpg?w=670 Interestingly, as reflected in the song's lyric ("was buried along with her name"), though married to Thomas Woods, at a time society would have expected her to have adopted her husband's surname, she was buried with the surname of her birth. Father McKenzie was Father McCartney to begin with, but Paul though better and a Mc name was pulled out of a phone directory. Instrumentation is an eight piece string section: four violins, two cellos, two violas. No Beatle plays an instrument on this.

[@barbsmith5465]

Did I hear you say you were a new Beatles fan? Well, if you are I cannot believe how well you get the lyrics. @HarriBest Reaction Channel. I'm so glad I just happened to run into your channel.

[@traherne6726]

Loving your Beatles journey 🇬🇧🍏✌🏼

[@craigproctor9560]

Like yesterday this song only as Paul McCartney singing on the song Paul McCartney is also singing the backing vocals on this song there is a book about the Beatles recordings and who is singing and playing on each song

[@elevown]

You were right the first time- it means she puts on a face - a false front, for the world when she leaves the house- not makeup.

[@papercup2517]

It reminds me of the time (not so long ago) when women would never go out without a hat on. So they would keep a hat or selection of hats on a peg by the door, along with a jar of hatpins. Only a small step of the imagination away from keeping a 'going-out' face in a jar by the door... Which reminds me of a story about a lady back in the day who hated uninvited visitors and kept a hat by the door, so if anyone did come knocking, she'd quickly put the hat on, before answering, and then she could say 'Oh what a shame - I was just on my way out!'

[@Serai3]

I've always heard that hectic feel as all the lonely people walking on the streets of the city, alone, always alone in the crowd.

[@PeterBuwen]

Interesting fact is that Paul McCartney got the information, long after he had written the song, that there is really a graveyard near Liverpool with a tombstone on the name 'Eleanor Rigby'. He did not know this when he wrote the song.

[@deanwrigleyuk]

It's on a grave in the churchyard where McCartney met Lennon for the first time!

[@gpxo11]

@@deanwrigleyuk correct me if I'm wrong but wasn't the cemetary called strawberry fields?

[@deanwrigleyuk]

@@gpxo11 No, Strawberry Fields was a large home for children

[@deanwrigleyuk]

@@gpxo11 Search KZbin for 'Beatles sites in Liverpool' by eliodue. All the information is there

[@sandysmatty2792]

The graveyard is in St.Peter’s Church in Woolton Liverpool, near where I live. It’s in Liverpool not near it.

[@markenmel1]

Wearing a face that she keeps in a jar by the door ... what a beautiful lyric.

[@jacksonmorganfroghin4815]

Another Day. (Paul did it right after the Beatles broke up.) Could have the story of Eleanor Rigby when she was alive. SHE SAID SHE SAID was the only Beatles song that Paul had nothing to do with. He got mad and stormed out of the studio. It's also on Revolver. Just a side note there.

[@julessabio]

yes, something to do with the others mocking him for not taking LSD or something like the sort. He was the only one at the time who didn't do LSD.

[@jacksonmorganfroghin4815]

You are correct sir!

[@cathyhetzel5944]

Ringo is so laid back!! One of my favorites!

[@jerrycote659]

One of my favorite Beatles songs. So gorgeous and sad at the same time. I recommend “She’s Leaving Home” to react to which is off the Sgt. Peppers album.

[@stephenqualtrough7322]

The story is there is a grave stone in St Peter's the church that John used to get frog marched to by his Aunt Mimi. This is true I have seen it with my own eyes. (There is also a big pub called Rigbys not far fro where The Beatles played )Very post war Harri with mny women like thi having lost their men in the previous conflict. Don't worry about Ringo as he got on flipside of this number 1 single singing Yellow Submarine so he got HIS star turn on the other side of the 45 lol

[@kilgoretrout3966]

There are so many unique Musical techniques at play here. One is the story of two lonely people, whose paths don't cross, or she just blends in at Church, and they never come to any chance of relationship. This is really underlined when Paul's vocals are matched note for note by the Cello on the passage "wiping the dirt from his hands as he walks from the grave" It puts a Lot of power behind his voice. It is in the key of E minor, and the Cellos and Violins create a sort of hide and seek tension, first by holding longer dissonance before it resolves, but also using the technique where the chord played by the violin is changed by the bass interval note, which can be either consonant or dissonant. It is a brilliant arrangement. Additionally in the part where the Cello mirrors Paul, his voice is working as a scale degree in the chord he makes with the Cello. It is simple and complex

[@aBeatleFan4ever]

Eleanor is pronounced... El - Uh - Nore. The song is about one particular person's loneliness... but also about the loneliness that can be found in so many people's lives. "All the lonely people. where do they all come from? All the lonely people. Where do they all belong?" It is pure poetry from Paul McCartney.

[@basketburger]

Brilliant song

[@markcowling1275]

George Martin serious influence !

[@mikefetterman6782]

John Lennon helped him changed the name from Father McCartney to Father McKenzie and one or two other words that didn't suit the line. Paul had this wrote with acoustic guitar and George Martin decided to hire an Orchestral group to back up Paul instead of the other three. Paul also did double tracking on the backing vocals. Im unsure if the others contributed at in the recording.

[@hw343434]

George wrote the hook and he sings it with John on harmony

[@sharmisthachakraborty287]

it was peter shotton, john;s friend..john didnt do anything

[@GrouchyMarx]

Eleanor Rigby. Harri you're a step closer to having enough to watch "Yellow Submarine" movie! Actually with all the Beatles songs you've done you're probably already ready. LOL! I don't mean for you to do a react vid, unless you want to. But at least watch it for your own pleasure maybe with some like-mind Beatles fans you know. The artwork developed for animation was trend setting and beautiful. It's the style of art Peter Max later pursued and became famous for, even though he had nothing to do with Yellow Submarine. It's suitable for kids too. All their movies are. After all, most of us here we're kids when it came out! When you get all of Sgt. Peppers and all of Magical Mystery Tour done you will DEFINITELY be ready for it. I'd love to see you do a reaction vid on the movie though. Movies Hard Day's Night and Help! to. ✌️😎 Almost forgot. Awesome reaction again!

[@HarriBestReactions]

Hi Marx..i actually searched for the movie after your recomendation.Couldnt find it on KZbin

[@GrouchyMarx]

@@HarriBestReactions I see what you mean. I don't see where you could buy it online either like other songs. Well shucks! Maybe you can find a DVD or something and at least watch it for fun. The reason is when the Beatles were doing their thing, and I grew with it, they created a kind of magic. Not rabbits out of hat kind, but a musical kind because of all the awesome songs they produced year after year. Very early on they made an actual drama about their very own adventures, Hard Day's Night in '64. No band ever did anything like that. It was a first among many firsts. The magical sense about all that talent booming out of the Abbey Road studio in England during their time there. Yellow Submarine movie takes that magic to its apex as a colorful cartoon of a fantasy, with a lot of weird shit, lots of their iconic music dotted everywhere and telling an interesting story that is a morality tale as well. I guess watching you do Eleanor Rigby video triggered this for me today. LOL! When you see it, you'll know what I mean. Perhaps wait until it's available on YT someday, either free or sale/rent. Can you do videos off of DVDs or is there a copyright or technical issue? Perhaps you can watch a DVD on a TV or PC with the audio piping thru your video and do a react that way. We don't have to have the video since nearly all of us out here in internetland have seen and heard all this stuff YT reactors do many, many times. We watch you guys and gals to see your cool and fun reactions, not to watch or listen to movies or songs in there entirety again! LOL! Anyway, loved your reaction and analysis to this classic and I'll be watching for other song my friend! ✌️😎