The Beatles Penny Lane The Meaning of The Beatles Song PART

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Жыл бұрын

The Beatles song, Penny Lane is one of their most famous, but do you know its meaning? And who wrote it? You may be surprised.
Many people think that it is just a whimsical look at a street Paul McCartney remembered. But it is so much more than that.
However, in this 3 part video series, David Bedford will reveal how the song, Penny Lane, has a very strong and personal connection to not only Paul McCartney, but John Lennon and George Harrison too. The film series will also reveal how Paul McCartney did not write the song alone - John Lennon made a significant contribution to the song.
Also revealed is how each of the characters in Penny Lane was real, revealing who the Pretty Nurse of Penny Lane was.
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David Bedford is a Beatles historian and author of several books on The Beatles, including his worldwide most popular book, “Liddypool: Birthplace of The Beatles”. Find out more about David at liddypool.com/
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@frankcastle5294 Жыл бұрын

Awesome vid. I'm 69 and my sister and I grew up with The Beatles. How 4 boys from a small English town changed the entire world forever, still amazes me and always will. We'll never see anything like them again. Ever. Greetings from southern Pennsylvania.

@BrightmoonLiverpool Жыл бұрын

Greetings to you in PA from Liverpool too. The story will always amaze us I think.

@frankcastle5294 Жыл бұрын

@@BrightmoonLiverpool Got my Abbey Road t-shirt from The Beatles Shop in downtown Liverpool. One of my most prized possessions.

@mustafa1name Жыл бұрын

This is a beautiful piece of work. Lovely, thoughtful visuals, down to earth local knowledge, excellent original research, evocative archive photographs, sensible and fascinating analysis. All put together in a fabulous synthesis. The insight into the lyrics and importance of this track is excellent, showing again two geniuses competing and collaborating in an almost mystical way. Paul's "in my ears and in my eyes" is so good, and Lennon just flashes magic with "though she feels as if she's in a play, she is anyway". Top quality content from Brightmoon!

@BrightmoonLiverpool Жыл бұрын

Thank you, so glad you enjoyed it. I love the stories behind the songs they wrote and this is my favourite. I've lived by Penny Lane for over 30 years now and love it here.

@donaldcarpenter5328 Жыл бұрын

everything said i concur

@WC0125 Жыл бұрын

Your books, videos and historical narration helps those of us who live oceans away and have never visited Liverpool enjoy and have a deeper understanding of Beatle history. Even by traveling there and taking in the packaged tourist trips and traps I doubt they focus on the details with the depth you do. Additionally, your raw street level walkabout videos interposed with historical photos and stories have made this sexagenarian Beatlemaniac feel he could visit as a returning friend instead of a novice tourist and not get lost. Thank you!

@BrightmoonLiverpool Жыл бұрын

Oh thank you so much for your kind comments. It is why I started writing all those years ago, because I wanted every Beatles fan to experience Liverpool, and the importance to the Beatles, even if they couldn't get here. Our channel allows me to do even more, so I am glad you are enjoying what we do.

@donaldcarpenter5328 Жыл бұрын

yep

@beeetleboy518 Жыл бұрын

Great final episode to your three part story of Penny Lane .It was nice to learn of Johns contribution to the song and how three Beatles lives were interwoven into the story of the song ! Enjoyed your Beatles tale David , superb research skills mate !👍👍🎸😎🎸 BB . L16

@BrightmoonLiverpool Жыл бұрын

Told you it was worth the wait! I love the story and glad you enjoyed it mate.

@donaldcarpenter5328 Жыл бұрын

me 2

@squyres Жыл бұрын

Thank you, David. I love it and it's always great to see you and Liverpool. That Penny Lane hotel is the best!! Loved staying there.

@im1who84u Жыл бұрын

From the states. Thank you for putting this together for us. Did a great job of getting all things mentioned in the song included and how they fit in. Left out the "Finger Pies", I can understand you not wanting to include it, but it was part of the story also. As a young teenager in the sixties I just thought it meant small fruit pies you would just eat with your hands. Something your mother might pack with your lunch for that day as your desert. Thanks again for the great narration and camera angels.

@BrightmoonLiverpool Жыл бұрын

It is a pleasure to do this for you - yes, thought it best to brush over the fish n finger pies! The naughty bits might be another video! Glad you enjoyed it.

@donaldcarpenter5328 Жыл бұрын

yes, thanx

@loosilu Жыл бұрын

Wonderful series. Just when I think I've read all the history, something like this comes along. You are doing great work.

@BrightmoonLiverpool Жыл бұрын

Thank you so much

@donttouchband100 Жыл бұрын

Thank you for your work on this video. For me, the song Penny Lane is a masterpiece of the Beatles era. I've been a fan of The Beatles since around the early 1970's. To this day there is always something new, previously unknown to discover.

@BrightmoonLiverpool Жыл бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it. I also didn't come across the Beatles until the 70s as I wasn't born until 65. Penny Lane is an incredible song, that was transformed once I understood what it all meant. They were geniuses. David

@PS-ru2ov 11 ай бұрын

fantastic always loved the people of Liverpool, very much like us here in Northern Ireland

@BrightmoonLiverpool 10 ай бұрын

Definitely. We are a very Irish city, and I have friends from Northern Ireland, and we get on like locals! A lot in common.

@hofnerbass1963 Жыл бұрын

Thanks very much for this very insightful series about Penny Lane!

@peterpearson2397 Жыл бұрын

this is a great factual story about penny lane i was born and bread in the area and often came across john and paul while i waited for the number 46 bus to take me to walton from penny lan

@BrightmoonLiverpool Жыл бұрын

Wow, how cool!

@Dzika_Astronomia Жыл бұрын

I would like you to thank you very much for this film. It explains a lot. Things I never knew, never realized. Respect! :-)

@BrightmoonLiverpool Жыл бұрын

Thank you so much. I am very happy to share this with fellow fans.

@crisslastname9417 Жыл бұрын

Awesome! You've done a great job! 👍

@BrightmoonLiverpool Жыл бұрын

Ta Criss

@tonypurcell1049 Жыл бұрын

Great video, great place, I can't wait to get back there again.

@BrightmoonLiverpool Жыл бұрын

Thanks Tony

@angusmilne9827 2 ай бұрын

I am currently learning Penny Lane on my bass guitar. I really appreciate learning the history behind the songs I learn. Thank you for sharing your video.

@BrightmoonLiverpool 2 ай бұрын

My pleasure. Shows how good a bass player Paul was too - best of luck with it! Glad I could help.

@pswordsy 9 ай бұрын

Class song one of the best

@BrightmoonLiverpool 9 ай бұрын

Definitely a great song

@alansgail 5 ай бұрын

Thank you for this, Penny Lane has always been my favorite!

@BrightmoonLiverpool 5 ай бұрын

You're very welcome!

@robindunton3145 Жыл бұрын

Marvelous! Thank you so much

@BrightmoonLiverpool Жыл бұрын

A pleasure, glad you enjoyed it.

@JohnBruceGuitars1 10 ай бұрын

Very well documented and very accurate

@BrightmoonLiverpool 10 ай бұрын

Thank you.

@thebohemian. Жыл бұрын

Everyone of your videos are fascinating. Your Beatles knowledge is amazing. What is your job, is surely has to be something Beatles related.

@BrightmoonLiverpool Жыл бұрын

Thank you. I am a Beatles historian and author of several books on the Beatles, helped make the documentary feature film "Looking for Lennon" with Roger Appleton at Brightmoon Media, and also a Beatles tour guide in Liverpool! A bit of podcasting too!! And of course making videos for this channel!

@donaldcarpenter5328 Жыл бұрын

Are you John's nephew?

@codex3048 Жыл бұрын

3:36 Great to see an arial view.

@BrightmoonLiverpool Жыл бұрын

I took that and many more from the spire of St. Barnabas Church, where Paul sang in the choir.

@alani281 3 ай бұрын

Very good and sad memories for John and Paul 😮

@BrightmoonLiverpool 2 ай бұрын

Penny Lane held good memories of childhood for them.

@rockjam4534 Ай бұрын

I take it this is where they came up with the name Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band aswell? This is a very interesting part of history when The Beatles came along.

@jeffreyprice773 Жыл бұрын

Great info

@BrightmoonLiverpool Жыл бұрын

Glad it was helpful!

@petejones879 Жыл бұрын

Did anyone notice about 3 minutes in a multi coloured Rolls Royce drive past just like the one John Lennon used to have?

@BrightmoonLiverpool Жыл бұрын

I left it in deliberately

@MegaNeil1955 9 ай бұрын

belongs to a Beatles tour guide I believe!

@pinksax 8 ай бұрын

Not to forget the infamous flat in Penny Lane during the 60s, most of the groups were very familiar with it.

@Wildmutationblu 11 ай бұрын

Fascinating. I hope you will make a video about Paul's various childhood homes. His dad was cotton salesman so they moved home several times. I've tried to find the location of his Walton home around Scotty Road but I think it has been knocked down.

@BrightmoonLiverpool 11 ай бұрын

Good call, I can do that. His home wasn't in Walton but Anfield, near to the stadium. One of his was demolished years ago - Sir Thomas White Gardens. Will put that on a list to do, thank you.

@donaldcarpenter5328 Жыл бұрын

I always thought she was "serving" "puppies" from a tray and thought they were "hush puppies". It was the ONLY was I make sense of the song. We hand out POPPIES, little red (plastic) flowers on Veterans Day here in the USA.

@BrightmoonLiverpool Жыл бұрын

Amazing how many people heard "puppies" not "poppies"! Lost in translation 🤣

@4-dman464 Жыл бұрын

9:30 Great detective work! I always feel "And though she feels as if she's in a play/ She is anyway" was a Lennon line somehow - - a bit of a downbeat twist. Whoever takes responsibility for it, I think it's the best line The Beatles ever did.

@BrightmoonLiverpool Жыл бұрын

And now you know who she was!

@donaldcarpenter5328 Жыл бұрын

"she keeps her face in a jar by the door" (ER) was always a fave of mine, but that's a good one too

@robertbell9935 Жыл бұрын

Thank you for these very interesting videos. Also in the original lyrics to In My Life, it mentions getting the number 5 bus into town and refers to going past 'The Dutch and St Columba's'. The Dutch presumably refers to 'The Dutch Cafe' which was not very far along from 'Penny Lane' on Smithdown Road. Am I right in thinking this was a late night haunt of The Beatles? According to John's old Dovedale and Quarry Bank school friend, Michael Hill, Pete Shotton once managed the place. The building is a bathroom showroom now. However, I am intrigued by a windmill symbol that is still on the building with the word 'Cafe' on it. Is this an original sign? It looks too modern in design to me to be original. Even if it isn't the original, it's interesting that it's been placed there presumably in memory of The Dutch Cafe. Also of interest, just before you get to there from Penny Lane is Holyoake Hall. I believe this was a venue which the early Beatles played at. You can still see the Holyoake Hall sign on the building. The building currently houses The Crafty Swine pub and one or two other places. Look up towards the top of the building and you will see the Holyoake Hall sign. St Colomba's was a Prestyterian Church further along Smithdown Road, near the junction with Ullet Road. It's now been converted into residential property but the red brick church tower still stands.

@BrightmoonLiverpool Жыл бұрын

Thanks Robert. I will be doing a video on those original In My Life lyrics, which I wrote about in my book, Liddypool. I know the area well and all of those locations you mentioned. Pete Shotton worked at the Dutch Café, though we now know he didn't own it. The Windmill is a repainted version of the original that was in the same place, signifying the Dutch windmills, the Dutch Café. It is a fascinating look at the original thoughts of John before he rewrote the song. Glad you are enjoying the videos and thank you for your input here too. David

@MrBarrynicholas Жыл бұрын

3:05 John's Rolls Royce.

@BrightmoonLiverpool Жыл бұрын

Cool isn't it?

@reneestewart9425 Жыл бұрын

Nice post, but it was written by Paul McCartney not with John. I’m sure John had a little input. But this is one of the songs that he wrote separately. Paul wrote this when he was 16 years. Also, before someone corrects me, please google and advance. Thank you for the beautiful trip down Penny Lane.

@BrightmoonLiverpool Жыл бұрын

Thank you. However, John wrote the last verse. The whole story of the pretty nurse was John's story, and that is all about hom and Pete Shotton. Paul also said that John came over and helped him with the last verse. That is how they worked. One would write 80% of the song, and the other finish it off. By the end, they were writing almost completely separately, but Penny Lane was one they shared, because it was a place that meant a lot to both of them.

@petejones879 Жыл бұрын

When I went on the Magical mystery tour trip only about 3 or 4 years ago.. Just before the Covid lock downs.. The fire station was pointed out.. It was there but closed down and it was said there were petitions to get it re opened.. Does anyone know if that was successful or is it still closed?

@BrightmoonLiverpool Жыл бұрын

The doors are now at Penny Lane Development Trust and the Fire Station is being transformed into housing, though keeping the authenticity of the building.

@wilhelmignis1314 Жыл бұрын

3:05 min: Show did you manage John's Rolls Royce Phantom passing by? Great!

@BrightmoonLiverpool Жыл бұрын

It is a local guy who does Beatles tours in it, so he is often out and about.

@alani281 3 ай бұрын

Yip saw it

@petejones879 Жыл бұрын

Number 9 number 9 number 9

@BrightmoonLiverpool Жыл бұрын

That's where it starts ! 9th October, 9 Newcastle Road (9 letters in Newcastle)

@tomhaskett5161 Жыл бұрын

Can I just remark how much you look and sound like Ricky Tomlinson?

@BrightmoonLiverpool Жыл бұрын

Ha ha!! He's nearly 90!! You saying I'm old? 😂😂 I was talking to him recently. He's a fan of my last book, The Country of Liverpool: Nashville of the North. He was a country singer known as "Hobo Rick". I will take it as a compliment!

@tomhaskett5161 Жыл бұрын

@@BrightmoonLiverpool He's 83, but it was a compliment to you! Read his autobiography, fascinating stuff. Keep up the good work

@BrightmoonLiverpool Жыл бұрын

@tomhaskett5161 Thanks Tom

@petejones879 Жыл бұрын

You can tell that surgery used to be a bank

@BrightmoonLiverpool Жыл бұрын

Looks like one, doesn't it?

@logotrikes Жыл бұрын

I suppose everyone knows about "Four of fish, and finger pies." Four of fish is a portion of fish and chips, and finger pie is a vulgar sexual description of what boys do to girls when they know bugger all about sex, and are feeling their way around, based on what the other lads, who themselves know bugger all about sex, tell them....

@BrightmoonLiverpool Жыл бұрын

Diplomatic answer, well done!

@logotrikes Жыл бұрын

@@BrightmoonLiverpool I do try. You ask my wife, she says I'm very trying. I've watched many of your presentations. Really excellent work, especially this one, of which I knew very little. Much the same as most Beatle fans I guess....

@BrightmoonLiverpool Жыл бұрын

@logotrikes Ha ha, I'm very trying too!! 😅 Glad you enjoyed this and other videos too. I love sharing the knowledge I have gained over the years with other fans.

@harmonizedigital. 9 ай бұрын

The thing about not wearing a Mac is not wearing a condom

@BrightmoonLiverpool 9 ай бұрын

No, it is simpler. The banker walks out of his bank carrying his mackintosh raincoat and climbs in his car parked outside and drives home. Everyone was jealous of the bank manager because he could afford a car.

@harmonizedigital. 9 ай бұрын

@@BrightmoonLiverpool Ok. I will look into it more.

@BrightmoonLiverpool 9 ай бұрын

@@harmonizedigital. Where did you hear about that as a possibility as I've not come across that one before?

@harmonizedigital. 9 ай бұрын

@@BrightmoonLiverpool I read it online. Let me see if I can find the source again

@BrightmoonLiverpool 9 ай бұрын

@@harmonizedigital. Thank you