Eleanor Rigby Statue

The Eleanor Rigby statue, in Liverpool

The Eleanor Rigby statue, seated on a bench, pays tribute to the famous Beatles song and to all the lonely people. The Liverpool audio-guided tour stops here to evoke this stone work offered to the city in 1982 by the artist and singer Tommy Steele, dedicated to the melancholic heroine of the 1966 hit, become a touching symbol of the city.

The tribute to all the lonely people

You see, seated on her bench, Eleanor Rigby, who seems to wait for you. This stone statue is the work of the artist Tommy Steele. Today, you discover him under his sculptor's cap, but he was also a teen idol of the 1950s, one of the first stars of British rock. In 1981, while he was performing in Liverpool, he proposed to the city to offer a work in honour of the Beatles. The city council saw in it a windfall to strengthen the tourist appeal of the city; it accepted and allocated a symbolic sum for its realisation. Like the song from which it draws its inspiration, the Eleanor Rigby statue is dedicated to all the lonely people. You doubtless have the song in your head since your arrival: Eleanor Rigby, who picks up the rice in the church after the weddings, and who waits, alone at her window, without anyone ever coming. Here, she is represented seated on a bench, in a pensive and melancholic attitude, beside her a few symbolic objects. This touching work illustrates the sometimes grave and social dimension of the Beatles songs, that knew how to evoke loneliness and the human condition with a universal poetry. Become an appreciated place of break and photo, the statue prolongs in stone the emotion of one of the finest ballads of the group. A moving statue and a tribute to the Beatles, the Eleanor Rigby statue is a fine stop of the discovery of Liverpool.

What to see

Here you discover the stone statue of Eleanor Rigby, seated pensive on a bench, tribute to the famous Beatles song dedicated to all the lonely people; offered to the city in 1982 by the artist and singer Tommy Steele, it illustrates the moving and social dimension of the group's songs and has become an appreciated place of break. The Eleanor Rigby statue is a touching symbol of Liverpool. It is a fine stop, to be explored on foot.

Practical information

The Eleanor Rigby statue is in the centre of Liverpool, near Mathew Street, reachable on foot. It is a work in free access in the public space, that you discover during a walk in the district of the Beatles.

What does the Eleanor Rigby statue represent in Liverpool?

It represents Eleanor Rigby, melancholic heroine of the famous 1966 Beatles song, seated pensive on a bench, and pays tribute to all the lonely people; offered to the city in 1982 by the artist and singer Tommy Steele, it illustrates the moving and social dimension of the group's songs and has become a touching symbol of Liverpool.

Where is the Eleanor Rigby statue in Liverpool?

In the centre of Liverpool, near Mathew Street, in England.