The Beatles wrote many songs centered on fictional characters, from the title character of “Mean Mr. Mustard” to Desmond and Molly Jones from “Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da.” “Eleanor Rigby” appears to be about ...

Paul McCartney revealed what inspired the “face in a jar” from The Beatles’ “Eleanor Rigby.” He said The Beatles’ “Eleanor Rigby” could not be replicated on a stage. For this reason, he compared it to ...

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More than 50 years after The Beatles broke up, the music made by John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr continues to inspire and intrigue fans old and new. And beyond the music, ...

Excerpted from The Beatles Lyrics: The Stories Behind the Music, Including the Handwritten Drafts of More Than 100 Classic Beatles Songs by Hunter Davies. Out now from Little, Brown and Company. It ...

Eleanor Rigby was “buried along with her name,” according to The Beatles song, but not her Bible — it’s being auctioned in London next month along with the deed to to her grave in the Woolton suburb ...