14 May 2026
Share a song you call something other than its official title. What do you call it?
For a long time I called this song 'Eleanor Rigsby'....I did think that was what it was called
I did most of my growing up in the 1970s, and their was a sitcom called Rising Damp which featured a character called 'Rigsby', He could have been Eleanor Rigby's comical, but malevolent cousin. He was the landlord of a shabby house and the only people he ever interacted with his equally lonely tenants.
I had a nose around the internet and I can't see that Rigsby was named in reference to the Beatles song, but it does resonate.