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Eleanor Rigby

Song by the English rock band the Beatles from their 1966 album Revolver
(Wikipedia)

Tommy Steele
1982

Description

Stone bench with a sculpture of a seated woman with a handbag on her lap, a shopping bag on her right, and a copy of the Liverpool Echo on her left. Poking from the shopping bag is a milk bottle, and on the newspaper is a sparrow and a piece of bread. The woman is looking down at the sparrow.

Liverpool - Eleanor Rigby

Inscription(s)

ELEANOR RIGBY
"All the lonely people"

Sculptured by Tommy Steele
A 'thank you' to the people of Liverpool
3rd December 1982

From the album 'Revolver'
5th August 1966

The Beatles in Liverpool

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Other memorials and statues

Sculptor

Tommy Steele, stagename of Thomas Hicks (London 1936), English entertainer, regarded as Britain's first teen idol and rock and roll star; also an author and sculptor (Wikipedia).

Sources & Information

Wikipedia, List of public art in Liverpool.
Wikipedia, Eleanor Rigby (statue).

Locatie (N 53°24'24" - W 2°59'11") (Satellite view: Google Maps)

Item Code: gbnw065; Photograph: 18 June 2023
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