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
Where Rivers Meet — "Invitation Missed", "Stream Of Joy" and "Do You Wish To Forget?" The songs were also inspired by Abbasudddin and Hementa Kumar Mukerjee amongst others. John Fordham of "The Guardian" rated "Where Rivers Meet" 3/5 and called the album "...a distinctive, heartfelt and unusual world music venture." John Lusk of "BBC Music" said "It's a slow grower, and a modest rather towering achievement, but give its gentle charms a chance and you may find yourself liking it a whole lot more than you'd expected." Chris May of "All About Jazz" rated the album 4.5/5 and said, "It's best described as