A document featuring the signature of Eleanor Rigby, thought to be the inspiration for The Beatles‘ song of the same name, has sold for £115,000 at an auction yesterday (November 27).
Liverpool City Hospital scullery maid E Rigby signed the document in 1911.
McCartney, who wrote the song, the second track on the band’s 1966 “Revolver” album, donated the document to the Sunbeam Music Trust.
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It was auctioned at London‘s Idea Generation gallery last night.
The Rigby of the song was previously thought to have been inspired by a gravestone at St Peter’s Church in Woolton.
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