Over the years, Paul McCartney added the occasional odd lyric to his Beatles songs. In “Maxwell’s Silver Hammer,” a song his bandmates genuinely hated, Paul sang about the character Joan studying ...

When The Beatles first arrived in America, the band was playing songs that didn’t require much in the way of interpretation. In “I Want to Hold Your Hand,” the band’s first No. 1 Billboard hit, you ...

Road signs for Penny Lane in Liverpool, which was immortalized by the Beatles’ 1967 song, were recently vandalized due to claims that the street was named after 18 th century slave trader James Penny.

Penny Lane, the road in Liverpool that gained worldwide recognition after The Beatles wrote a song about it, is now “in danger of being renamed” if it can be proven that its title is linked to a slave ...

A road sign for Penny Lane, made famous by The Beatles, after it was vandalized following perceived links with slave trader James Penny, in Liverpool, England.Peter Byrne/PA via AP The UK street that ...

Since the song was released in 1967 the identity of the "pretty nurse selling poppies from a tray" has remained a mystery. But a schoolfriend of John Lennon's, who has written a book about growing up ...

Update: The International Slavery Museum has concluded its investigation into the naming origins of Penny Lane and have stated that they have found "no historical evidence linking Penny Lane to James ...

Penny Lane, to quote Paul McCartney's famous line, is always in Liverpool artist Susannah-Rachel Gorman's ears... and in her eyes. She can see the famous road sign - and hordes of Beatles fans from ...

A road sign that was stolen from the location made famous in the Beatles song Penny Lane has been returned to Liverpool almost a quarter of a century later. The Penny Lane street sign was taken by ...

The Penny Lane street sign is back in Liverpool, England, nearly five decades after a group of tipsy university students wrested it from its home beneath the city's clear suburban skies. The Beatles ...

The poster for Cameron Crowe’s rock-band-on-the-road odyssey Almost Famous, which turned 25 this week, depicts an extreme close-up of the actor Kate Hudson, in character as the ambiguously aged muse ...