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Eleanor Rigby (thing)

2001-08-04T20:44:25Z

I have heard two stories on how The Beatles came up with the name "Eleanor Rigby".

In The Beatles Anthology book (Apple Press, 2000), Paul McCartney says that he got the name "Eleanor" from his costar in "Help!", Eleanor Bron. of course, he couldent call the song "Eleanor Bron", so he was trying to find a common, but not-too-common name with two syllables. So Paul saw a store sign one day, the store being "Rigby's"
So there you have it.

The second story I hear is from John Lennon, but I guess I can't ever confirm this, because of the dead factor. I heard that there's a church in Strawberry Fields in Liverpool that has this name on the tombstone...

Coincidence?

Maybe...

August 4, 2001 (idea)

2001-08-04T18:10:38Z

Today is my birthday. The day I was birthed. But there has always been
something I don't understand about birthdays...
When you come out of the womb, aren't you 9 months old? So, technically, I'm 17 and nine months?

Concert for Bangla Desh (thing)

2001-08-03T23:24:08Z

The Concert for Bangla Desh was a...concert staged in 1971...for..Bangla Desh.

Well, on August 1, 1971 in Madison Square Garden, NYC, the world's two best songwriters got together and did something big.

Bob Dylan and George Harrison- being the famous people they were- George fresh off the Beatle-wagon, and Bob just being the awesome guy he was-they decided to make some good off of their fame. So they got a few more famous people together: Ravi Shankar, Eric Clapton, Billy Preston, Leon Russell, Don Preston, Ringo Starr, and Jim Horn, to be exact.

Don't ask me what the real "problem" was. You've all seen the cover, whether you know it or not. It's this emaciated kid, so I'm assuming those people in Bangla Desh were starving.

The concert was released on Apple/EMI (Capitol) on December 20, 1971.

It stands up very well 30 years later, even though Ringo still forgets the word in "It Don't Come Easy" and…

Yesterday (thing)

2001-07-30T04:49:42Z

A song by The Beatles. This is, by now, a well known fact, but not noded:

The melody came to Paul McCartney in a dream. He woke up and plunked it out on a piano by his bed. He thought to himself "Why, that's a nice tune..." And he first went to John Lennon to ask him if he heard it, then to George Martin (The Beatles' producer) and asked him. They both responded saying they didn't know it.

After about a week, he decided it must be his.
The original lyrics went something like:

"Scrambled Eggs,
Oh my baby,
How I love your legs..."

and as you know, this was later changed to the lyrics we all know and love.

This is also the most-covered song in history, with some 2,500 versions of it...

Help! (thing)

2001-07-28T20:01:50Z

A song that wakes me up in the middle of the night with John Lennon's loud yelp.

Also The Beatles' second movie, which I watched last night:

Ringo Starr recieves a ring from a fan from the far east ("an eastern bird"), who, unknowingly to Ringo, is to be sacrificed... but wait! Just as the knife is being brought to the neck of this lady, Ahme, sister of the sacrificee shouts: "The Ring! She cannot be sacrificed without the ring!" This puts the High Priest of the godess Kaili, Klang, in a furor.

His "arrangments for his immediate departure" to England are made.

When in England, we find the boys: John, Paul, George, and Ringo entering their home. Paul waves to bystanders, and then appears at an organ rising out of the ground...

George instructs a man to mow his lawn by his bed... with those little walking teeth.

John goes to a bookshelf, grabs a book within a book, and proceeds to kiss it.

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July 27, 2001 (thing)

2001-07-27T23:08:28Z

Why do old men feel they have to marry women young enough to be their daughters? Does it make them look..macho or sexy? Like they're still hunks or whatever? So I'm watching CNN today..and I hear Paul McCartney, the sexiest of all sexy, is getting married to a

33

YEAR OLD. The man is 59, for Christ's sake. Paul must have some kind of underlying need to have someone. His wife died 3 years ago, and so now Paul has dropped to number three on my favourite Beatles list. But can you say "Trophy Wife"? Jebus.