Eleanor Rigby statue
Illustration — Eleanor Rigby statue 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.
Eleanor Rigby statue
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- 1982
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- United Kingdom
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- bronze
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Illustration — Eleanor Rigby statue 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.
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It is recorded as the work of Tommy Steele. Materials recorded for it are bronze. It is associated with United Kingdom. The record gives 1982 as its date of establishment or first appearance. Recorded genres are public art. It is recorded in the collection of Liverpool.
When Tommy Steele was performing in a show in Liverpool in 1981, he made an offer to Liverpool City Council to create a sculpture as a tribute to the Beatles. His fee for the commission would be three pence (half a sixpence). The offer was accepted by the council, as the statue would be expected to increase the tourist trade of the city, and they made a donation of £4,000 towards its cost. The project was otherwise funded by the Liverpool Echo. The statue took nine months to make. Steele unveiled it in Liverpool on 3 December 1982.
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The statue consists of a bronze figure on a stone bench. The figure is 128 cm tall, 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 This inscription has since been replaced. • Illustration — The plaque as it appears in 2018 • Illustration — Close-up of Eleanor's face • Illustration — Close-up of the sparrow at which Eleanor is looking
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- 1.Fontenot, Robert. 'Eleanor Rigby' – The history of this classic Beatles song [page 2]. oldies.about.com.
- 2.Cavanagh, Terry. Public Sculpture of Liverpool. Liverpool University Press. 213–214. 1997. 978-0-853-23711-2.
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