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TIL The question asked by The Beatles in "Eleanor Rigby" (1966) -- "All the lonely people, where do they all come from? / All the lonely people, where do they all belong?" -- inspired the band America to write an encouraging, uplifting response with the song "Lonely People" (1974).

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