I can't hold back any more..here's my take on the song.
Paul is singing about all the lonely people.
Eleanor is picking up the rice that she'll never be an actual part of.
She still tries to look young hoping to some day marry. That evident by the face cream that's kept in a jar by the door.
Father McKenzie writing a sermon very few people will hear because his congregation is dwindling. Darning his socks(poor and lonely without a family and very little money).
Eleanor dies alone and no one is there for her funeral and Father McKenzie buries her himself.(wiping the dirt from his hands as he walks from the grave)
No one was saved made me question if Eleanor took her life and possibly buried in the back of the church yard.
NIKK-its my opinion because songs our ones meaning as their own interpretion. Works of art are the same. They are mediums used to stir up ones feelings and emotions. Both works of art has no right or wrong ways because they are open to ALL interpretations.
We’re on the same page.
NIKK said-its my opinion because songs our ones meaning as their own interpretion. Works of art are the same. They are mediums used to stir up ones feelings and emotions. Both works of art has no right or wrong ways because they are open to ALL interpretations.
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Well said. I agree with that overall interpretation, and with the point that all well-constructed art has multiple levels of meaning. (I learned that in a literature course!)
That being said, I’ve been a very busy Bunny Hole spelunker. I dived into the Rigby Rabbit Hole, and in the Lonely Hearts Club Band hole.
RIGBY
I didn’t get very far with the Rigby hole, but did work on trying to learn about the Liverpool Hospital. That was more difficult than I would have thought, but finally found some archives of some historical pictures as well as the Liverpool national archives site with all kinds of info about the town and its history. I did not pursue that very hard, but saved it so that if we ever decide to try to search out the skull duggery and connections of the elite from that area, we can start there. (Papers from the Churchills, Clemenceau, Conan Doyle, and David Lloyd George among others are housed there.)
I did learn that there is a Liverpool in Australia and Ohio each with hospitals!
LONELY HEARTS CLUB BAND ALBUM COVER
In addition to the above, I decided to look at the LHCB cover. I have never studied it very closely. I’ve been aware that a lot of both living and dead people were on it, but never really gave it much thought. My research in this area sort of goes under the heading of the key word “HOLLYWOOD,” since quite a few actors are on the cover list.
I found a link with a list to all the people who are on it - and even people who were supposed to be, but didn’t make it. I also began researching some of the people on the list.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_images_on_the_cover_of_Sgt._Pepper%27s_Lonely_Hearts_Club_Band
I arbitrarily started with Fred Astaire.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Astaire
As far as i can tell, he was a good guy. I couldn’t figure out why he was on the album. Probably because of his ground breaking work in dance on film. (Obviously) However, a name popped up which I was not expecting at all, and made me sit up very straight:
He is a guy who became acquainted with Astaire, who is an American political scientist in the field of international relations as well as a scholar of the history of dance. He is recognized for his ideas concerning “the banality of ethnic war” and the theory that major world conflicts are quickly becoming obsolete.
THE GUY’S NAME IS MUELLER.
However, NOT ROBERT - It is JOHN E.
I have not been able to establish if there is any kind of tie to ROBERT MUELLER.
More about John E.:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Mueller
” ...he received his AB from the University of Chicago in 1960 and his Master’s (MA Thesis: The Politics of Fluoridation in Seven California Cities) and PhD (PhD Dissertation: Reason and Caprice: Ballot Patterns in California) from UCLA in 1963 and 1965, respectively.
He currently is the Woody Hayes Chair of National Security Studies at the Mershon Center for International Security Studies and a professor of both political science and dance at The Ohio State University....”
“Although primarily known as a political scientist, Mueller is also an expert on filmed dance and a leading authority on the work of Fred Astaire in particular, having published Astaire Dancing – The Musical Films in 1985, a now-standard reference work that was honored by the Dance Perspectives Foundation as “the most distinguished book-length manuscript in the history of dance”, and awarded the de la Terre Buono prize. He has also authored the reference articles on Astaire for American National Biography and the International Encyclopedia of Dance. In addition, he has published extensively in Dance Chronicle, Quarterly Review of Film Studies, Cinema Journal and Dance Magazine.”
John E does sound like a prize den in his own right, though.