Beatles' 'muse' Eleanor Rigby's burial deeds fail to go for a song

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No buyer for papers on claimed inspiration for hit but George Harrison recording goes under hammer for £14,000

Poor old Eleanor Rigby. Nobody came to her funeral and now nobody wants to pay enough for her grave, after the deeds to her Liverpool burial plot failed to sell at a Beatles auction.

Whether she was actually the inspiration for the Beatles song is hotly contested, which is perhaps why the papers for her grave failed to reach the £2,000 reserve price on Monday.

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