McCartney said he came up with the name "Eleanor" from actress Eleanor Bron,
who had starred with the Beatles in the film Help!. "Rigby" came from the name of a store in Bristol,
"Rigby & Evens Ltd, Wine & Spirit Shippers", which he noticed while seeing his girlfriend of the time, Jane Asher,
act in The Happiest Days of Your Life. He recalled in 1984, "I just liked the name. I was looking for a name that sounded natural.
'Eleanor Rigby' sounded natural." However, it has been pointed out that the graveyard of
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