Paul McCartney explains how the Beatles’ “Eleanor Rigby” came to be...

[Michie]

My mum’s favorite cold cream was Nivea, and I love it to this day. That’s the cold cream I was thinking of in the description of the face Eleanor keeps “in a jar by the door.” I was always a little scared by how often women used cold cream...

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Paul McCartney on Writing “Eleanor Rigby”