What is not in doubt is who did what in the studio. Shotton has stated the ending, in which Father McKenzie conducts Rigby’s funeral, came from him. George Harrison is alleged to have come up with the haunting ‘Ah look at all the lonely people’ refrain, and Ringo Starr contributed ‘Writing the words of a sermon that no one will hear’. They are said to have contributed ideas, but it’s likely to be mainly a McCartney song, despite Lennon claiming several times to have a fair stake in it creatively. Paul played what he had to the other band members, as well as Lennon’s childhood friend Pete Shotton, at Lennon’s home. McCartney claims the forename came from Eleanor Bron, the female lead in Help! (1965), and the surname from a shop in Bristol.Īs with many classic Beatles songs, there is some debate as to who did what. A day later he added ‘Father McCartney’ He has always insisted there was no conscious decision to name the song after the Eleanor Rigby on the gravestone later discovered in the graveyard of St Peter’s Church in Liverpool. He came up with the line ‘Miss Daisy Hawkins picks up the rice in the church’. In a 1966 interview, McCartney explained that Eleanor Rigby began life as he played around on the piano. And as usual, it paid off, making Eleanor Rigby/Yellow Submarine the most unusual number 1 single yet. That they chose two of the least traditionally pop-sounding tracks suggests to me it was a state of intent more than anything else. Unusually, they chose to release a double-A-side from the album on the very same day. They could barely be heard over the screaming, and the songs from their new album were going to be difficult to replicate without studio trickery.īefore the tour, however, came the release of Revolver to a stunned world. It is likely that they had already decided their US tour would be their last, anyway, but this fuss over nothing will have only helped their belief that there was little point any longer. He tried to defend himself at a press conference, but found himself saying sorry anyway. Soon after they encountered controversy again in the US, after Lennon’s comments about Christianity (see Paperback Writer) were blown out of all proportion when fan magazine Datebook reprinted the comments. The subsequent riots left the group in considerable danger, and they were relieved to make it out in one piece. The month after its completion, John, Paul, George and Ringo upset the first lady of the Philippines, Imelda Marcos by declining an invitation to breakfast while touring there. From George Harrison’s sarcastic counting at the start of Taxman to the dying seconds of Tomorrow Never Knows, it was a startling leap forwards in the sonic palette of the world’s biggest group. The Beatles spent the majority of the spring of 1966 on one task: the masterpiece that was Revolver.
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