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 ...

Last night in Liverpool, England, it was reported that several street signs were vandalized as word began to spread that Penny Lane may have been named after a slave trader named James Penny. Although ...

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 ...

A Penny Lane street sign stolen by students in 1976 has been returned to Liverpool, England. It was taken nine years after the Beatles' song made the road legendary. An ex-student returned the sign.

We are remembering Sir George Martin, who died yesterday at the age of 90. In 1962, while working for a British record label, he signed an unknown band called The Beatles. We're going to talk now with ...

LIVERPOOL, England It’s the same barbershop where John Lennon got haircuts as a kid, the place immortalized in The Beatles song “Penny Lane.” Instead of “a barber showing photographs” and “a banker ...

Since their emergence from Liverpool in 1962, the Beatles created the template for rock bands that’s still in place today, from the guitar-bass-drums instrumentation to the bitter feuding between band ...

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 Beatles' single immortalised the road.

It was 60 years ago today, Sgt. Pepper taught the band to play — on live TV. On Feb. 9, 1964, The Beatles made their first U.S. television appearance on “The Ed Sullivan Show” and more than 73 million ...