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The lyrics refer to Penny Lane, a street in Liverpool, and make mention of the sights and characters that McCartney recalled from his upbringing in the city. The Beatles began recording "Penny Lane" in December 1966, intending it as a song for their album Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band. Instead, after it was issued as a single to satisfy ...
The Beatles Illustrated Lyrics is a set of two books combining the lyrics of songs by the Beatles with accompanying illustrations and photographs, many by leading artists of the period. Comments from the Beatles on the origins of the songs are also included. [1] The book was edited by Alan Aldridge, who also provided many of the illustrations. [2]
In Britain, "Strawberry Fields Forever" / "Penny Lane" was the first Beatles single since "Please Please Me" in 1963 to fail to reach number 1 on Record Retailer ' s chart (later the UK Singles Chart). [145] [nb 13] It was held at number 2 behind Engelbert Humperdinck's "Release Me", [147] [148] the year's biggest-selling single.
Penny Lane, to quote Paul McCartney's famous line, is always in Liverpool artist Susannah-Rachel Gorman's ears... and in her eyes. She can see the famous road sign - and hordes of Beatles fans ...
The shelter *is* at Penny Lane, and literally next to the barber and at least one prominent bank. Anyone who lives in Liverpool, particularly South Liverpool, as all the Beatles did, understands the significance of Penny Lane, then as now, and the accuracy of McCartney's depiction.
"You Know My Name (Look Up the Number)" was the last Beatles song from the group's official canon to be included on an album, issued on an LP for the first time on Rarities (which had been included as a bonus disc in the British and American boxed set, The Beatles Collection in 1978, and released separately as an album in the United Kingdom in ...
A Penny Lane street sign stolen by drunk students has been returned to Liverpool – 47 years after the theft. The sign was taken in 1976, nine years after the road was made famous when the ...
Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band is the eighth studio album by the English rock band the Beatles.Released on 26 May 1967, [nb 1] Sgt. Pepper is regarded by musicologists as an early concept album that advanced the roles of sound composition, extended form, psychedelic imagery, record sleeves, and the producer in popular music.