My mum’s favorite cold cream was Nivea, and I love it to this day. That’s the cold cream I was thinking of in the description of the face Eleanor keeps “in a jar by the door.” I was always a little scared by how often women used cold cream.
It’s like the story of the name Eleanor Rigby on a marker in the graveyard at St. Peter’s Church in Woolton, which John and I certainly wandered around, endlessly talking about our future. I don’t remember seeing the grave there, but I suppose I might have registered it subliminally. A week or so later, I was out on my bike and bumped into Pete Shotton, who was the Quarry Men’s washboard player—a very important instrument in a skiffle band. He and I got talking, and he told me that John thought I should join them. That was a very John thing to do—have someone else ask me so he wouldn’t lose face if I said no. John often had his guard up, but that was one of the great balances between us.
To this very day, it still is a complete mystery to me that it happened at all. Would John and I have met some other way, if Ivan and I hadn’t gone to that fête? I’d actually gone along to try and pick up a girl. I’d seen John around—in the chip shop, on the bus, that sort of thing—and thought he looked quite cool, but would we have ever talked? I don’t know. As it happened, though, I had a school friend who knew John. And then I also happened to share a bus journey with George to school.
So my life is full of these happy accidents, and, coming back to where the name Eleanor Rigby comes from, my memory has me visiting Bristol, where Jane Asher was playing at the Old Vic. I was wandering around, waiting for the play to finish, and saw a shop sign that read “Rigby,” and I thought, That’s it! It really was as happenstance as that. When I got back to London, I wrote the song in Mrs. Asher’s music room in the basement of 57 Wimpole Street, where I was living at the time.
They look impossibly young.
** 53rd anniversary of his quitting the band today
The Beatles are overrated, far behind Elvis, stones
Wonder how it worked out. 🤔😃
'A long and winding road'
senorcoffee ohmygoodness, they look about 13 years old here!
Amazing photo - kiddos...
Moonalice This is great. Check out the Ray Charles cover while you’re in the mood.
Jar of Nivea cream? Smoooth!
“Eleanor” was always part of the equation, I think, because we had worked with Eleanor Bron on the film “Help!” and we knew her from the Establishment, Peter Cook’s club, on Greek Street. I think John might have dated her for a short while” Wasn’t JL married at this time?
Please for the love of all just ask Paul about more than just the Beatles. My man has lived such a great and adventurous life with many more stories to tell than the same ones we’ve heard over and over.
Have always thought Paul was a competitive prick underneath all that studied politeness.
hmm eleanor rigby ? never heard that song hows it sound good
Just loved reading that from Paul - not got that lyrics book yet but it must be good - going from his recollections of writing ‘Eleanor Rigby’
PM was the weak link of the Beatles. Me me me and all of his syrupy compositions were too much for me. John Lenon was the opposite, to me anyway.
“Warm” is how you say “abuser” over at the New Yorker?
drugs, will do that to a person. Make you get naked too
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