Editing Revolver (Beatles album) (section)

==== "Eleanor Rigby" ====
Womack describes McCartney's "[[Eleanor Rigby]]" as a "narrative about the perils of loneliness".{{sfn|Womack|2007|p=138}} The story involves the title character, who is an ageing spinster, and a lonely priest named Father McKenzie who writes "sermon[s] that no one will hear".{{sfn|Womack|2007|p=138}} He presides over Rigby's funeral and acknowledges that despite his efforts, "no one was saved".{{sfn|Womack|2007|pp=137–39}} The first McCartney composition to depart from the themes of a standard love song,{{sfn|Turner|2016|p=63}} its lyrics were the product of a group effort, with Harrison, Starr, Lennon and the latter's friend [[Pete Shotton]] all contributing.{{sfn|Everett|1999|p=51}}{{refn|group=nb|Lennon later said he wrote 70 per cent of the lyrics,{{sfn|MacDonald|2005|p=204}} which McCartney refuted, saying that Lennon contributed "about half a line".{{sfn|Everett|1999|p=51}}}} While Lennon and Harrison supplied harmonies beside McCartney's lead vocal, no Beatle played on the recording;{{sfn|Hertsgaard|1996|p=182}} instead, Martin arranged the track for a [[string octet]],{{sfn|MacDonald|2005|p=203}} drawing inspiration from [[Bernard Herrmann]]'s 1960 film score for [[Alfred Hitchcock]]'s ''[[Psycho (1960 film)|Psycho]]''.{{sfn|Womack|2007|p=137}} In Riley's opinion, "the corruption of 'Taxman' and the utter finality of Eleanor's fate makes the world of ''Revolver'' more ominous than any other pair of opening songs could."{{sfn|Riley|2002|p=185}}