The post Penny Lane from The Beatles Song “in Danger of Being Renamed” over Possible Slavery Ties appeared first on Consequence of Sound. It seems many believe the road was named for James Penny, a ...

John Lennon said The Beatles’ “Penny Lane” was one of his more personal songs. He explained the setting of “Penny Lane” and his connection to it. He was more connected to the actual Penny Lane than ...

The Beatles’ “Penny Lane” is about a district, not a single lane. Multiple members of The Beatles had connections to the real Penny Lane. One member of the band lived there with his parents as a child ...

The signs for Liverpool’s Penny Lane are often decorated with graffiti: names, dates, well wishes to the Beatles who immortalized the street in their 1967 hit. This month, though, the scrawlings ...

Earlier this month, Liverpool's Penny Lane, which inspired the Beatles song of the same name, was vandalized with the perpetrators suggesting that the landmark had ties to 18th century slave trader ...

Curious from birth, Fiona is a music writer, researcher, and cultural theorist based in the UK. She studied her Bachelor of Music in London, specializing in audiovisual practices, and progressed to a ...

The Beatles single Penny Lane was released in 1967 and named after a street in Liverpool where the Fab Four grew up. But now it’s been alleged that the road is named after 18th-century slave merchant ...

Update: The International Slavery Museum has concluded its investigation into the naming origins of Penny Lane and have stated that they have found "no historical evidence linking Penny Lane to James ...

The Beatles began recording “Penny Lane,” essentially a Paul McCartney composition, in December 1966, as part of the Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band sessions. Plans changed and they instead ...

'Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band' is one of the most iconic and influential albums of all time and The Beatles had a point to prove with its release. The psychedelic 1967 masterpiece, which ...