https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/eleanor-rigby-grave
1957, John Lennon was introduced to Paul McCartney by a mutual friend after Lennon’s band played a small show at St Peter’s church in Woolton, a village on the outskirts of Liverpool. The meeting took place in the hall across the street from the church. (Today, a plaque on the front of the hall commemorates the historic meeting.)
Earlier that day, Lennon’s band the Quarry Men had played during the Woolton village fete. The afternoon stage was set up on the school grounds directly behind the church. Lennon and McCartney would regular take short cuts through the church grounds in the early days before they became The Beatles. In the cemetery at St. Peter’s, a gravestone bears the name of Eleanor Rigby, which would eventually become the title of a 1966 hit song written by McCartney and included on the Beatles album Revolver.
The rumours of [Tuesday] Weld being a witch date back from the 1970s, when she appeared for an interview wearing “a witch hat, and skirt”*. In an article written by Adam Gorightly and Douglas Hawes, it says, “Weld became a fast rising prodigy in the Illuminati, and at the youthful age of 15 was chosen as the new queen and high priestess of the Druids.
The initiation rite that signalled her ascension into leadership was the plane crash that carried Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens, and the Big Bopper to their deaths in February of 1958. […] The plane had been sabotaged by backers of Weld as part of this ritual which signified her inauguration as Illuminati Queen and High Priestess.”
According to the legend, during this time, Weld was dating singer Don McLean. He found out about Weld’s “ritual”, and was inspired to write the iconic “American Pie”. The opening lyrics of the song talk about Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valen and Big Bopper’s tragic deaths, referring to it as “the day the music died”.
Apparently, Weld was very well known among celebrities for her Illuminati status, and allegedly inspired other famous songs - “Ruby Tuesday” by The Rolling Stones, “She Came In Through the Bathroom Window” by The Beatles, and “Stairway to Heaven” by Led Zeppelin.
As one anonymous DataLounge user observed, “Both the Beatles and the Rolling Stones were prodigies of Tuesday Weld’s occulatural revolution. Her influence on the Beatles was most noticeable during the group’s psychedelic phase, and is alluded to in such songs as ‘I Am the Walrus’ in which the lyrics refer to “…stupid bloody Tuesday.”
The song cryptically mentions a “pornographic priestess.” Other Beatles songs that have highly evocative Weldian lyrics include ‘Lady Madonna,’ as well as ‘She Came In Through the Bathroom Window,’ with its chorus, (“Tuesday’s on the phone to me.”)”
Some folks say that Anton LaVey (infamous satanist and founder of the Church of Satan) stated that one of his books, The Satanic Bible, was dedicated to Weld, whom he called a goddess. As the story goes, she remained in her position as “Illuminati Queen and High Priestess” from 1958 until 1991.
From elsewhere:
In the November 11, 1977 edition of TIME magazine, an interview was conducted with Tuesday Weld at the Hotel Marmount , and she showed up for the interview wearing a witch's hat and witch's skirt. She reminisced about the years she lived at the Chateau Marmount (Hotel California).
This is about the hotel in general:
https://la.curbed.com/2013/6/26/10227258/chateau-marmont-hotel-history-deaths
About Tuesday Weld:
http://mercurie.blogspot.com/2010/01/young-women-who-would-be-lolita.html
Stanley Kubrick's first suggestion as to who should play Lolita must have seemed obvious at the time and still seems obvious today. Tuesday Weld was already an experienced actress, having appeared in several movies and the first season of The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis.
Although still a teenager, her image was already somewhat sexualised. Indeed, it has been reported she was dropped from the cast of The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis because she was too sexy for a family sitcom.
While Tuesday Weld seemed perfect for the role of Lolita, she turned it down. Years later in an interview, when asked why she turned down Lolita, she simply said, "I didn't have to play Lolita. I was Lolita."
She wasn't first but she made the part of underage she-wolf her own and some of the films she was in were quite creepy, as befitted LaVey's muse. Quite evil place, Hollywood.
Susan Ker (Tuesday) Weld is now 77, living on the West Coast. Hopefully she will not sue you for repeating these made-up things about her.
ReplyDeleteExpected something like that. Every word true in terms of who said what, she admitted much of it herself and the rest confirmed from actor sources. She most certainly spoke that quote. They did write that piece but I don’t buy the sabotage. The references were correct. Maclean was on with her at that time. It does explain the time period. My attitude is she’s a classic abuse case, looked carefully at the father, the family line. Also Joey Heatherton was classic abuse case. Hayley Mills was not.
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