Eleanor Rigby

Look at all the lonely people...

 

'Eleanor Rigby' was issued with 'Yellow Submarine' as a double A-side single simultaneously with the album Revolver.
'Eleanor Rigby' won the Best Contemporary (Rock & Roll) Solo Vocal Performance Grammy Award for 1966 (And they were bloody right, Paul sings it flawlessly!!)

 

The US record label

The UK record label

From Argentina (wish I had this one, but I can't find it!)

Released in Belgium

Released in Denmark

West German Single

West German Reissue

The US Release

The Italian Issue

Photo shows Beatles on stage in Tokyo, June 1966

Released in Sweden

The Norwegian single

Australian reissue

From: www.thebeatles.com 

The statue is the work of Tommy Steele and was meant as a "Thank You" to the people of Liverpool for all the happy times he'd spent in the city. It's said that Tommy sold the statue to Liverpool for "Half A Sixpence" but in fact the cost of casting the figure in bronze was met by The Liverpool Echo. Tommy gave his time freely.

Eleanor was unveiled to the world on the 3rd December 1982 by Tommy when he explained he had placed a number of objects inside the figure, "so she would be full of magical properties". They were an adventure book (for excitement), a page from the bible (for spiritual guidance), a clover leaf (for good luck), a pair of football boots (for action) and a sonnet (for love).

From: http://www.rockmine.music.co.uk/Beatles/Liverpool/Eleanor.html