The Beatles – Penny Lane (1967)

Penny Lane was one side of a double a side single, the other side being Strawberry Fields Forever, it was released in February 1967. The name of Penny Lane refers to an actual street in The Beatles’ home city of Liverpool. The promotional film, that was made for the song, was one of the first videos ever made, before the name video had been coined. Enjoy the original film on the video above, has just been remastered to HD quality. The double a side single made it to number 2 in the British charts, and number 1 in America and Australia.

The Beatles - Penny Lane

The Beatles – Penny Lane – Lyrics

In Penny Lane there is a barber showing photographs
Of every head he’s had the pleasure to know
And all the people that come and go
Stop and say hello

On the corner is a banker with a motorcar
The little children laugh at him behind his back
And the banker never wears a mack in the pouring rain
Very strange

Penny Lane is in my ears and in my eyes
There beneath the blue suburban skies
I sit and meanwhile back in

Penny Lane there is a fireman with an hourglass
And in his pocket is a portrait of the Queen
He likes to keep his fire engine clean
It’s a clean machine

Penny Lane is in my ears and in my eyes
A four of fish and finger pies
In summer meanwhile back

Behind the shelter in the middle of a roundabout
A pretty nurse is selling poppies from a tray
And though she feels as if she’s in a play
She is anyway

Penny Lane, the barber shaves another customer
We see the banker sitting waiting for a trim
And the fireman rushes in from the pouring rain
Very strange

Penny Lane is in my ears and in my eyes
There beneath the blue suburban skies
I sit and meanwhile back

Penny Lane is in my ears and in my eyes
There beneath the blue suburban skies
Penny Lane

For a bonus here is the promo film for the other side of this double a side single from 1967, it has also been remasted.