2006-12-30 09:49:37 · 6 answers · asked by saveitforthemoshpit 2 in Entertainment & Music ➔ Other - Entertainment
It's in Liverpool, UK, where the Beetles are from.
Paul McCartney was sitting at a bus shelter waiting for John Lennon to meet him on Penny Lane, a street near their houses. While sitting there Paul jotted down the things he saw, including a barber's shop with pictures of its clients and a nurse selling poppies for Remembrance Day (November 11th or the day World War 2 officially ended). He later turned these into the song we now know. Penny Lane still contains the bank and barber's shop mentioned in the song, however the shelter in the middle of the roundabout where the nurse sells the poppies has now become a restaurant named Sgt. Pepper's Bistro. (thanks, James - St Albans, England)
http://www.songfacts.com/detail.php?id=115
Pictures of Penny Lane
http://www.geocities.com/penneylayne/aboutpenlane.html
Or,
http://www.upv.es/~ecabrera/pennyln.html
And MultiMaps to Penny Lane, Liverpool
http://www.multimap.com/map/browse.cgi?client=public&GridE=-2.91735&GridN=53.38796&lon=-2.91735&lat=53.38796&search_result=Penny%20Lane%2C%20LIVERPOOL%2C%20L18&GridN=53.38796&GridE=-2.91735&db=GB&lang=&keepicon=true&place=Penny%20Lane%2C%20LIVERPOOL%2C%20L18&pc=&advanced=&client=public&addr2=penny%20lane&quicksearch=penny%20lane%20liverpool&addr3=%20liverpool&scale=5000&addr1=
2006-12-30 09:56:43 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
"Penny Lane" is a song by The Beatles, written by Paul McCartney, recorded during the Sgt. Pepper sessions, and released in February, 1967 as one side of a double A-sided single, along with Lennon's "Strawberry Fields Forever".
The song's title is derived from the name of a street in the English city of Liverpool. The area that surrounds its junction with Smithdown Road is also commonly called Penny Lane. Locally the term "Penny Lane" was the name given to Allerton Road and Smithdown Road and its busy shopping area.
2006-12-30 09:55:14 · answer #2 · answered by i2lovehiei 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
If you mean The Beatles song, Penny Lane is a road in Liverpool.
2006-12-30 09:52:01 · answer #3 · answered by Arizona Brit 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
not who what
"Penny Lane" is a song by The Beatles, written by Paul McCartney
2006-12-30 09:54:32 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
it's a road in Liverpool, England
penny lane is in my ears and in my eyes, there beneath the blue suburban skies!
2006-12-30 09:51:39 · answer #5 · answered by car of boat 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Some girl the Beatles were in love with
2006-12-30 09:51:58 · answer #6 · answered by lindsey 4 · 0⤊ 2⤋