With a little help from my friends (that is YOU) I would like to make a complete list of all the characters that are mentioned in Beatles Songs. There are already quite a lot of lists available on the internet, but most are not complete or even incorrect. So let's try to do it better....because it's getting better all the time.
Here is the list, if you see one missing, feel free to add them by writing a comment
List of Characters in The Beatles Song texts
- Anna (in 'Anna' - Please Please Me)
- Aunt Marry (wife of Uncle John) in 'Long Tall Sally
- Beethoven (in 'Roll over Beethoven' - With the Beatles)
- Billy Shears (the one and only in "Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band")
- BB King (American Blues guitarist and composer) on 'Dig It' - Let It Be
- Bungalow Bill (the all American bullet-headed saxon mother's son in 'The Continuing Story of Bungalow Bill' on The White Album (aka The Beatles). Incidentally the story was inspired by a certain Richard A. Cooke III who stayed at the same ashram as the Beatles in 1968 and killed a tiger.
- Captain Marvel (who zapped the tiger right between the eyes) on 'The Continuing Story of Bungalow Bill" - The White Album
- Chairman Mao in 'Revolution #1" - The White Album
- Charles Hawtrey (and the Deaf-aids) who wrote 'I dig a pygmy' on 'Two of Us' - Let It Be.
- Chuck (one of the grandchildren on Ringo's knee in 'When I'm Sixty-Four' from Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band)
- Daniel (a.k.a. Danny Boy or Dan or Rocky Raccoon) in 'Rocky Raccoon' from The White Album
- Dave (on of the grandchildren on Ringo's knee in 'When I'm Sixty-Four' from Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band)
- Den(n)is O' Bell in 'You Know My Name (Look up the number) which was on the B-side of Let It Be
- Desmond Jones (who has a barrow in the market place) in 'Obla-Di Obla-Da on The White Album
- Doctor Robert (who will make you a new and better man) in 'Dr Robert' on Revolver
- Doris (who gets her oats in phase one) in 'Two of Us' on Let It Be
- Doris Day (on 'Dig It' - Let It Be)
- Duchess of Kircaldy (always smiling and arriving late for tea) in 'Cry Baby Cry' on The White Album
- Duke of Kircaldy (who was having problems with a message at the local bird and bee) in 'Cry Baby Cry on the White Album.
- Edgard Allan Poe (American writer, also present on the front of Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band) who was kicked by penguins on 'I am the Walrus'
- Edward Heath (Prime minister of Great Britain) on 'Taxman'
- Eleanor Rigby (one of the lonely people who died in the church) on 'Eleanor Rigby' - Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band.
- Elmore James (Blues guitarist) on "For You Blue" - Let It Be
- Father McKenzie (writing the words of a sermon that no-one will hear) in 'Eleanor Rigby' - Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
- The Fool (the man of a thousand voices) in 'The Fool on the Hill" - The Magical Mystery Tour
- Georgie Wood (the author of 'Dig It) on 'Dig It' - Let It Be
- Gideon (owner of the Bible and offers to help with good Rocky's revival) in 'Rocky Raccoon' - The White Album
- Harold Wilson (Prime Minister of the United Kingdom) on "Taxman".
- The Hendersons (who dance and sing at the 'Being for the Benefit of Mr. Kite) - Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
- Henry The Horse (who dances the Waltz) in 'Being for the Benefit of Mr. Kite - Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
- Her Majesty (a pretty nice girl but she doesn't have a lot to say) in 'Her Majesty' (the sortest official Beatles Song and one of the first hidden tracks in modern pop/rock music - Abbey Road
- Joan (a murdered girl who studied pataphysical science) in 'Maxwell's Silver Hammer" on Abbey Raod
- Jojo, who left his farm in Tucson, Arizona for some California grass in "Get Back" on Let It Be
- Jude (Julian Lennon, who should take a sad song and make it better) on 'Hey Jude'.
- Julia (the ocean child, Julia Lennon) on 'Julia' - The White Album
- Junior (who buys every rock and roll book on the magazine stand) from 'Bad Boy' - A Collection of Beatles Oldies
- King of Marigold (cooking breakfast for the queen) on 'Cry Baby Cry' - The White Album
- Lady Madonna (children at her feet) from 'Lady Madonna'
- Loretta Martin (SWEET Loretta Martin, she thought she was a woman, but she was another man) in 'Get Back' on Let It Be
- Lucy (probably Lucy O'Donnel who made a drawing of her in the sky with diamonds) in 'Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds' on 'Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
- Maggie Mae (a prostitute who robbed sailors and was made famous in a traditional Liverpool folk song). From 'Maggie Mae' on Let It Be
Magil (who calls herself Lill, but everybody knows her as Nancy
- Martha in 'Martha My Dear' (Martha was the name of Paul's Old English Sheepdog) - The White Album
- Mary Jane (who had a pain at the party) from "What's the new Mary Jane." Actually, it should not be a surprise that she had a pain at the party, since she ate 12 chapatti's and cream!
- Matt Busby (famous football player and manager) in the song "Dig It" - Let It Be
- Maxwell Edison, the hammer-wielding murderer from 'Maxwell's Silver Hammer' on Abbey Road
- Michelle (ma belle) in "Michelle" - Rubber Soul
- Mister Kite (who flies through the ring) on 'Being for the Benefit of Mr. Kite' - Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
- Mister Jones (Dylan's Mister Jones) on 'Yer Blues' - The White Album
- Miss Lizzie in 'Dizzy Miss Lizzie' on Help!
- Mister Mustard (Mean Mister Mustard who always shouts something obscene) on 'Mean Mister Mustard' - Abbey Road
- Molly Jones ( a singer in a band) in 'Obla-di, Obla-da) on The White Album
- Nowhere Man (he's as blind as he can be) in 'Nowhere Man' - Rubber Soul
- Pablo Fanque (the first black circus owner of the Cirque Royal) mentioned in 'Being for the Benefit of Mr. Kite on Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
- P.C. 31 who caught Maxwell, the murder in 'Maxwell's Silver Hammer' on Abbey Road
- Peter Brown (who called to say you can make it OK, you can get married in Gibraltar near Spain), the personal assitant to The Beatles and Brian Epstein, mentioned on 'The Ballad of John & Yoko"
- Polythene Pam (the sister of Mean Mister Mustard and the kind of girl that makes the News of the World) in 'Polythene Pam' - Abbey Road
- Prudence (Mia Farrow's sister Prudence) in 'Dear Prudence' - The White Album
- Queen of Marigold (playing piano for the children of the King) on 'Cry Baby Cry' - The White Album
- Rita (a lovely meter maid) from 'Lovely Rita' - Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
- Rocky Raccoon (a young boy from the black mountain hills of Dakota) in 'Rocky Raccoon' - the White Album
- Rose (one of the girls in the gallery who scream 'he must go free') in 'Maxwell's Silver Hammer on Abbey Road)
- Sergeant Pepper (leader of the Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band)
- Sadie (who made a fool of everyone) was the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi on 'Sexy Sadie' - The White Album
- Sally (who's got everything uncle John needs) in 'Long Tall Sally'
- Semolina Pilchard who was climbing up the Eiffel Tower in "I am the Walrus"
- Uncle John (who had a lot of fun) in 'Long Tall Sally
- Valerie (one of the girls in the gallery who scream 'he must go free') in 'Maxwell's Silver Hammer on Abbey Road)
- Vera (one of the grandchildren on Ringo's knee in 'When I'm Sixty-Four' from Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band)
- Walter Raleigh (Sir) who was such a stupid git - 'I'm so Tired' - the White Album
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