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A fictional "Eleanor Rigby" picking up the pieces...

A fictional “Eleanor Rigby” picking up the pieces…

“Eleanor Rigby” has no guitars and no drums on it. The track appears to be made up entirely of strings: violins, bass violins. It ignores all the previous basics of rock and roll instrumentally and lyrically, “Eleanor Rigby…lives in a dream,” sings Paul.

“Eleanor Rigby” is the first of a series of Paul McCartney portrait songs -”Penny Lane,” “She’s Leaving Home,” “Lovely Rita” – that draw on some part of English society to tell their story, though at this stage people are not differentiating between a “Paul” song and a “John” song. It was all The Beatles, And The Beatles are already bigger and better than anything we’d ever known. The Beatles are, by now, bigger than rock and roll. They had taken all that rock and roll had to offer and fed it back to us in their own way. Now they were growing beyond that, going further. But how much further? Lennon would shortly proclaim The Beatles “more popular than Jesus,” and sing, “Love is all and love everyone. / It is knowing, it is knowing.”

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By Ethan Russell

http://ethanrussell.com/americanstory/?p=2209

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