The Beatles’ “Penny Lane” is similar to one of Hanson’s songs in an obvious way. A member of Hanson discussed the similarity. The Beatles’ “Penny Lane” was once the most popular song in the United ...

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 ...

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.

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.

London is steeped in musical history, and despite hailing from Liverpool, few bands have left as lasting a mark on the city ...

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 ...

The breakthroughs and standards set on Revolver could fill a book. But even when The Beatles weren’t trying to best themselves - and Lennon would later refer to And Your Bird Can Sing as one of his ...