Over the years, Paul McCartney added the occasional odd lyric to his Beatles songs. In “Maxwell’s Silver Hammer,” a song his bandmates genuinely hated, Paul sang about the character Joan studying ...

In The Number Ones, I’m reviewing every single #1 single in the history of the Billboard Hot 100, starting with the chart’s beginning, in 1958, and working my way up into the present. There are a lot ...

Last year in early March, the week before Ireland went into lockdown, I was in Liverpool with a morning to kill. So I went on a Beatles taxi tour. At Penny Lane the driver stopped the taxi. We got out ...

Since the song was released in 1967 the identity of the "pretty nurse selling poppies from a tray" has remained a mystery. But a schoolfriend of John Lennon's, who has written a book about growing up ...

A road sign for Penny Lane, made famous by The Beatles, after it was vandalized following perceived links with slave trader James Penny, in Liverpool, England.Peter Byrne/PA via AP The UK street that ...

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 from ...

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 ...

Road signs for Penny Lane in Liverpool, which was immortalized by the Beatles’ 1967 song, were recently vandalized due to claims that the street was named after 18 th century slave trader James Penny.