Eleanor Rigby

Carl’s Rock Songbook #32: The Zombies, “A Rose for Emily”

by Carl Scott

Our main purpose in looking at this song is to better judge “Eleanor Rigby,” which to some commenters’ chagrin, I criticized in the last Songbook entry.  The first contrast is that it is a song that doesn’t grab you at first—in my experience, it takes about five or so . . . . Continue Reading »

Carl’s Rock Songbook #31: The Beatles, “Eleanor Rigby”

by Carl Scott

The Songbook was analyzing a set of songs about Loneliness and Individualism, such as Simon and Garfunkel’s “Sounds of Silence,” before it got side-tracked into laying out my theory of modernity’s sociological stages. It’s time to return to the first task, which brings me . . . . Continue Reading »