Reading the Singing The Blues thread led me, by the kind of google-track one follows, to Tommy Steele on Wikipedia, and thence to his bronze statue Eleanor Rigby, a tribute to the Beatles, which stands [or, rather, sits] near the site of the Cavern Club in Liverpool.

It is a good piece of sculpture to be sure ~~ Mr Steele is a man of many talents {including marriage ~~ he and his wife, I learnt also, have been married for over 50 years}. But I couldn't see the statue as the lonely Miss Rigby of John Lennon's imagination, who "stood at the window" (when she wasn't "picking up rice in the church"), presumably looking out from within and hoping for someone to call; rather than, as the statue shows, sitting outside on a bench with a headscarf and bags and thick boots. I like it as a statue, I repeat; but it seems to me rather to illustrate Ralph McTell's Streets Of London than Lennon & McCartney's Eleanor Rigby.

What do others think?


~Michael~

It is easy to google ~~ I just entered "tommy steele's statue eleanor rigby"