Eleanor Rigby Statue
Bronze of a lonely woman on a bench feeding a sparrow, a sculpted tribute to a Beatles song.
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This guide to the Eleanor Rigby statue on Stanley Street in Liverpool follows the entertainer Tommy Steele, who in the early nineteen-eighties offered the city a bronze tribute to the Beatles and the lonely woman of their nineteen sixty-six song. It touches on the fee he asked, the local newspaper that backed him, and what he chose to seal inside the figure. Stand in front of the bench, where you can see the sparrow on her newspaper.
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