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"She Came in Through The Bathroom Window",

As the band matured, the stories grew darker and more true to life.įrom the 1965 album Rubber Soul, described an affair Lennon was conducting with an unnamed girl during his first marriage to Cynthia. Many of the Beatles' early songs were conventional stories of young love and attraction. The grave is there! (I believe he denies this, some say it might be a subcious memory. Paul has not admitted this, it must be subconscience. The song turned Penny Lane into an international tourist destination.Ī McCartney composition, was inspired by a name on a grave in St Peter's Churchyard in Woolton, close to the Strawberry Field children's home which was itself just around the corner from John Lennon's Aunt Mimi's home in Menlove Avenue, now owned by the National Trust. "Finger pie" and even the fireman who "keeps his fire engine clean" have since been outed as sexual slang. On "Penny Lane", Paul McCartney evokes perfectly the atmosphere of post-war working-class life in a humdrum provincial suburb.īut alongside the images of blue suburban skies are some risqué references. It was also unusual for having a picture sleeve and was accompanied by a ground-breaking "promotional film" - the forerunner of the modern pop video. Intended for the Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club album, "Strawberry Fields/Penny Lane" was instead released as a double A-side single - highly unusual for the time. The Beatles may have moved to London as soon as they could but Liverpool remained a key source of inspiration, especially during the band's most creative period in 1967.

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