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Writing Elenor Rigby with Paul McCarthy

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Growing up, I knew a lot of old ladies?"partly through what was called Bob-a-Job Week, when Scouts did chores for a shilling. You'd get a shilling for cleaning out a shed or mowing a lawn. I wanted to write a song that would sum them up. Eleanor Rigby is based on an old lady that I got on with very well. I don't even know how I first met "Eleanor Rigby," but I would go around to her house, and not just once or twice. I found out that she lived on her own, so I would go around there and just chat, which is sort of

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