Lennon agreed that “Eleanor Rigby” was one of McCartney’s more complex songs, but he said this was partly thanks to him. “Ah, the first verse was his and the rest are basically mine,” Lennon said in ...
Like most decades-old songs, the true origins of McCartney’s song are murky. Rigby’s grave is in the cemetery beside St. Peter’s Parish Church in Woolton. McCartney went to Sunday school at St.