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 ...

“Penny Lane” covers the Beatles’ shared hometown, Liverpool. Songwriters Paul McCartney and John Lennon give the listener a wealth of detail about their childhood surroundings. “I like some of the ...