Paul McCartney

I like the filmic thing.

sometimes I'll write and I love her which is you know I love so very straightforward and I think fine for what it is but then you then I'll start to you know because I see you watch so many films read so many books that this character

that I'd kind of known women like this, Eleanor Rigby, lonely old ladies.

On the housing estate where we lived, there were always a couple of old pensioners.

And I would go around and offer to get their shopping for them and stuff.

And it was very good because they'd start to tell me stories

of the war, or I remember one of the old ladies showing me a crystal radio.

So it was great, it was very exciting.

So I liked these ladies.

So they were always a kind of special character for me, so I kind of wrote Eleanor Rigby from the perspective

of one of those ladies.

Yes.

Well, I think, you know, I think the people who are locked down with their family,

were forced to be with their family.

If you love your family, that could be quite nice.

You know, you're suddenly in enforced family time.

And I had the song and the minute I heard myself writing, life can be hard, something told me to just say, but then, and then that's when we start to get it together again or whatever.

I didn't want to go down the dark route.

I wanted to say, yeah, life can be hard, but come on, gang, we're gonna get this together.

We're gonna make it happen.