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Sir Paul McCartney has hinted at the real identity of the woman made famous in The Beatles's 1966 hit 'Eleanor Rigby'.
When approached for a donation by The Sunbeam Trust charity, Sir Paul instead sent back a page from a 1911 Corporation of Liverpool accounts book which included the signature of an E. Rigby. The document shows that Rigby, then 16, worked as a scullery maid at Liverpool City Hospital.
The paperwork, along with the discovery of a grave marked Eleanor Rigby in the Wolten area of Liverpool in the 1980s, has led some to suggest that Eleanor Rigby was a real person who may have been known to the song's author, Sir Paul.
The Beatle had earlier insisted that the spinster was fictional, with the name Eleanor inspired by Eleanor Bron who appeared in the band's film Help!.
The accounts log will be auctioned at the Fame Bureau at London's Idea Generation Gallery on November 27.
