Father McKenzie

I’m a big Beatles fan.

So I’ll say while this most recent Paul McCartney video interview doesn’t reveal many new nuggets of Beatles lore, it’s still great.

Here’s something from the interview worth remembering…

In the song Eleanor Rigby there’s another character named Father McKenzie. Most Beatles fans know that originally it was Father McCartney. But Paul didn’t want want to use McCartney.

So they got the phone book out, found McCartney and then kept scrolling the Mc section until they found the next one that worked with the syllables.

Let me repeat: They scrolled through a phone book.

Breathe easy.

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