Paul explained: “I was sitting at the piano when I thought of it. The first few bars just came to me, and I got this name in my head … ‘Daisy Hawkins picks up the rice in the church.’ I don’t know why I couldn’t think of much more so I put it away for a day. Then the name Father McCartney came to me, and all the lonely people. But I thought that people would think it was supposed to be about my Dad sitting knitting his socks. Dad’s a happy lad. So I went through the telephone book and I got the name McKenzie…”McCartney said he came up with the name “Eleanor” from actress Eleanor Bron, who had starred with the Beatles in the film “Help!” “Rigby” came from the name of a store in Bristol, “Rigby & Evens Ltd, Wine & Spirit Shippers” which he noticed while seeing his girlfriend of the time (Jane Asher) act in “The Happiest Days of Your Life.”
