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"Eleanor Rigby" is a song by the English rock band the Beatles from their 1966 album Revolver. It was also issued on a double A-side single, paired with " Yellow Submarine ". Credited to the Lennon–McCartney songwriting partnership, the song is one of only a few in which John Lennon and Paul McCartney later disputed primary authorship. [ 3 ]
"Yellow Submarine" is a song by the English rock band the Beatles from their 1966 album Revolver. It was also issued on a double A-side single, paired with "Eleanor Rigby". Written as a children's song by Paul McCartney and John Lennon, it was drummer Ringo Starr's vocal spot on the album. The single went to number one on charts in the United ...
In the UK, where "Eleanor Rigby" was the favoured side, the single became the best-selling song of 1966, [213] after topping the national chart for four weeks during August and September. [242] On Record Retailer ' s LPs chart (later the UK Albums Chart ), Revolver entered at number 1 [ 338 ] and stayed there for seven weeks during its 34-week ...
Sisters Eleanor and Gillian had flown over from Drogheda, Co Louth, as a tribute to their late father, Tony Rogers. ... who was named after Tony’s favourite Beatles song “Eleanor Rigby ...
The album's second Beatles cover is "Eleanor Rigby"; with its story of small-town loneliness and death is the only Beatles cover that fits well with Gentry's own songwriting. [4] Track ten is a cover of Kenny Rankin's "Peaceful". [4]
In one of the few non-laudatory contemporary reviews of Sgt. Pepper, [20] Richard Goldstein, writing in The New York Times, cited the song as an example of the album's reliance on production over quality songwriting. Goldstein said: " 'She's Leaving Home' preserves all the orchestrated grandeur of 'Eleanor Rigby', but its framework is emaciated ...
"Elenore" is a 1968 song by the Turtles, originally included on The Turtles Present the Battle of the Bands. Although written by Howard Kaylan, its writing was co-credited to all five members of the band: Kaylan, Mark Volman, Al Nichol, Jim Pons, and John Barbata. The song was written as a satire of their biggest pop hit "Happy Together."
The song "Auld Lang Syne" comes from a Robert Burns poem. Burns was the national poet of Scotland and wrote the poem in 1788, but it wasn't published until 1799—three years after his death.