Paul McCartney’s original handwritten score for The Beatles’ Eleanor Rigby is going up for auction
Adam Bloodworth
Monday 21 Aug 2017
The original score signed by Paul McCartney (Picture: AFP/Getty Images)
The score Paul McCartney wrote for The Beatles’ hit song Eleanor Rigby is going up for auction.
The original score was only discovered recently when an estate of the Rigby family was left to a family member, along with a treasure trove of old memories.
The score of the hit song was written to include four violins, two violas and two cellos.
It was handwritten by Beatles producer George Martin, and signed by Paul, as he wrote the lyrics to the song, which had overriding themes of loneliness.
The song marked a change in direction for the band (Picture: Getty Images)
The song featured on the 1966 Beatles album Revolver, and became famous for its hand in re-positioning the band as more experimental because it wasn’t considered a pop or rock song.
The song’s mature themes also aided the song in reaching new audiences beyond its young fan base.
The full manuscript (Picture: STF/AFP/Getty Images)
Paul Fairweather, who works at Omega Auctions, said: ‘I expect there to be fierce bidding from across the globe.’
The score is written in pencil and includes a note explaining that the song was to be recorded at Abbey Road studio, where the Beatles were famously photographed crossing the road.
The score will be up for auction at the Beatles Memorabilia Auction in Warrington, England, on September 11.
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Beatles' handwritten Eleanor Rigby score goes on auction
The piece of memorabilia, signed by their late producer George Martin and Paul McCartney, is expected to fetch £20,000.
Monday 21 August 2017
The original handwritten score for the Beatles song Eleanor Rigby is to be sold alongside the grave deeds of the supposed muse.
The piece of memorabilia, handwritten and signed by Paul McCartney and their late producer George Martin, is expected to fetch £20,000.
The score includes notes specifying that it was to be recorded at London's Abbey Road Studio number two and that four violins, two violas and two cellos were to be used.
"Each item is fantastic, unique and of significant historical importance in itself, so to have both come up at the same time is an incredible coincidence," said Paul Fairweather from Omega Auctions, which is selling the items.
"I expect there to be fierce bidding from across the globe."
In a separate lot, the grave deeds of a woman named Eleanor Rigby, who many believe served as inspiration to the 1966 hit, will also be sold.
That includes a miniature Bible, dated 1899, with the name Elenor Rigby handwritten inside - which is expected to sell for £5,000.
The grave was found in the 1980s, in St Peter's churchyard in Woolton, Liverpool, where McCartney met John Lennon at a party in 1957.
The two Beatles revealed they used to take shortcuts through the church grounds, and rumours started that she was the same Eleanor Rigby who wore "the face that she keeps in a jar by the door".
McCartney has always refuted the theory, insisting that the name Eleanor was inspired by actress Eleanor Bron, who starred in The Beatles' film Help!
The surname Rigby, he said, was the name of a wine merchant.
"Eleanor Rigby is a totally fictitious character that I made up," he said in 2008.
"If someone wants to spend money buying a document to prove a fictitious character exists, that's fine with me."
The sale will take place at the Beatles Memorabilia Auction in Warrington on 11 September.
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