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 ...

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.

Last night in Liverpool, England, it was reported that several street signs were vandalized as word began to spread that Penny Lane may have been named after a slave trader named James Penny. Although ...

Earlier this month, Liverpool's Penny Lane, which inspired the Beatles song of the same name, was vandalized with the perpetrators suggesting that the landmark had ties to 18th century slave trader ...

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 ...

John Lennon said The Beatles’ “Penny Lane” was one of his more personal songs. He explained the setting of “Penny Lane” and his connection to it. He was more connected to the actual Penny Lane than ...

Strawberry Fields Forever and Penny Lane weren’t just hits, they were the Beatles’ way of turning nostalgia into music that ...

The Beatles came to Sevenoaks on 30 and 31 January 1967 to film the promotion for Strawbery Fields Forever and came back to ...

The signs for Liverpool’s Penny Lane are often decorated with graffiti: names, dates, well wishes to the Beatles who immortalized the street in their 1967 hit. This month, though, the scrawlings ...

“Penny Lane” is most commonly associated with Paul McCartney – and rightfully so. He was the primary writer on this Beatles’ classic, sang lead on it and took charge of the song’s transformation from ...

DUNEDIN, Fla. — Joan Vickers heard about a little museum while visiting Dunedin from upstate New York and knew she had to check it out. “Never met them. Wish I had,” she said. The New Yorker found ...