The Eleanor Rigby statue by entertainer Tommy Steele, Stanley St, Mathew St, Liverpool, Merseyside, England, UK, L1 6AA
Eleanor Rigby is a statue in Stanley Street, Liverpool, England, designed and made by the entertainer Tommy Steele. It is based on the subject of the Beatles' 1966 song "Eleanor Rigby", which is credited to the Lennon–McCartney partnership The statue consists of a bronze figure on a stone bench. The figure is 128 cm high, 120 cm wide, and 96 cm deep. It depicts 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. Steele included what he described as "magical properties" in his design, all hidden inside the bronze figure and representing a different facet of life. These were: a four-leaf clover (for good luck), a page from the Bible (for spiritual guidance), football boots (representing sport and fun), a comic book (for comedy and adventure), and a sonnet (for love) On the wall behind the figure is an inscribed plaque which originally read: ELEANOR RIGBY DEDICATED TO "ALL THE LONELY PEOPLE ..." This statue was sculpted and donated to the City of Liverpool by Tommy Steele as a tribute to the Beatles. The casting was sponsored by the Liverpool Echo. DECEMBER 1982
Size: 3376px × 5472px
Location: Stanley St, Mathew St, Liverpool, Merseyside, England, UK, L1 6AA
Photo credit: © Tony Smith / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
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