WINE DINE & TRAVEL MAGAZINE SUMMER 2017

Paul first met John in 1957 at the annual Woolton garden
party, is the churchyard cemetery, where one gravestone
reads: “In loving memory of. . .Eleanor Rigby. . .died 10th Oct.
1939, aged 44 years. . . .”
Today in central Liverpool there’s a statue of Eleanor Rigby
sitting on a park bench, a gift from Britain’s 1950s rock ‘n’ roll
idol Tommy Steele, “for all the lonely people.” And there’s a
statue of the Fab Four installed in 2015 on Pier Head, where
tourists love to pose for photos.
As one elderly taxi driver told me, “I’ve lived here all my life
and saw the Beatles at the Cavern in 1961. It was crowded,
hot, and smoky. I knew there was something special about
them, their music was different from other sounds.”
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