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Covered by: Amen Corner, John Bayless, Judy Collins, Arthur Fiedler and the Boston Pops, Ray Hamilton, Englebert Humperdinck, James Last, Enoch Light, Kenny Rankin, Jorge Rico, John Valby, Newton Wayland, Kai Winding
- Although it shares a single with "Strawberry Fields Forever," the original double-a side was meant to be Paul's "When I'm Sixty Four," the second song after SFF to be recorded for the historic Sgt. Pepper sessions. Paul, realizing "Penny Lane" was the more commercial song, selected it instead.
- Along with SFF, this was the first single sent out as a promo to DJs in England. It was also the first Beatles single not to reach Number One in the UK since 1963's "Please Please Me" -- breaking a streak of eleven straight chart-toppers!
- There is indeed a bank in the real-life roundabout mentioned in "Penny Lane," as well as a barbershop, run by one Roger Bioletti, who has claimed to have cut John, Paul, and George's hair as children. The fire station mentioned in the song exists, though slightly off the Penny Lane road itself; the "shelter," a covered bus stop, was turned into a trendy restaurant called "Sgt. Pepper's Bistro," and is, as of this writing, abandoned. The area itself, however, has become quite trendy among college students, not to mention tourists.
- Penny Lane was named for 18th-century slave trader James Penny; when, in 2006, the Liverpool town council proposed to rename all such streets named after slavers, this disconcerting fact came up. Penny Lane was left as it was.
- "Penny Lane" road signs were stolen as souvenirs for years until the Liverpool government decided to simply paint the signs on area walls. In 2007 a new theft-proof sign was introduced... which was promptly stolen.
- The trumpet that David Jones plays on this track was sold at Sotheby's in 1987 for the equivalent of nearly eleven thousand US dollars.
- A number of businesses have adopted the Penny Lane name, as well as characters in the films Wonderwall (1968; score by George Harrison) and 2000's Almost Famous, and the TV show Daria. Ex-adult film star Penny Flame credits her name to her love of the song -- and her love for marijuana.
Covered by: Amen Corner, John Bayless, Judy Collins, Arthur Fiedler and the Boston Pops, Ray Hamilton, Englebert Humperdinck, James Last, Enoch Light, Kenny Rankin, Jorge Rico, John Valby, Newton Wayland, Kai Winding