I don’t like “Eleanor Rigby” that much. I feel like it should grip me somehow with its dramatic strings and depressing lyrics, but it never does. Is there something wrong with me? Because from what I’ve read and researched, this track is one of the most popular by The Beatles and definitely one of the most loved on the band’s album “Revolver”. But I have to be that guy who prefers “I Want to Tell You” and “Doctor Robert”.

The song is the second one on “Revolver”, and the first time Paul takes lead vocal on the album. It’s not one to listen to if you’re in a good mood. The lyrics focus on two lonely characters, Eleanor Rigby and Father MacKenzie. The former wishes to be married and the latter writes sermons that apparently no one will hear. At the end of the track, the former character has died and the latter conducts her funeral. The irony.

I may not like it that much. But this track was a sign of many exhibiting the band’s evolution from the mop-top pop group that amazed everyone in the 60s to the experimental group that maintained that admiration.