Pete Shotton the storyline of "Eleanor Rigby" (he suggested that the two lonely people in the song meet, but too late). Shotton also recalls Lennon squinting at the words of a Victorian-era poster for Pablo Fanque's Circus Royal that hung in Lennon's music room at Kenwood while he worked out the tune for "Being for the Benefit of Mr. Kite!". According to writer Stan Williams, Shotton's wife Beth is the "pretty nurse" selling poppies mentioned in the lyrics of "Penny Lane". After the Beatles became famous, Lennon and George Harrison bought a supermarket on Hayling Island, and gave it to Shotton to
I'm a Man You Don't Meet Every Day recent popular version was recorded in 1985 by the Pogues, with bass player Cait O'Riordan on vocals. One of the earliest recordings is from the mid-1970s when Chris Foster received a cassette recording he had made of Mrs Amy Ford from Low Ham, Somerset, UK, singing this song. Amy learnt the song from her grandfather, Frederick “Cauliflower” Crossman, who was one of Cecil Sharp's singers. I'm a Man You Don't Meet Every Day "I'm a Man You Don't Meet Every Day"(Roud 975) is a traditional Scottish or Irish music hall song written from the point of view of a rich