Az eredeti átnevezési javaslat egyik legélesebb ellenzője Phill Coppell Beatles-történész volt, aki azt hangoztatta, hogy a Penny Lane neve szorosan kötődik a zenekarhoz és Liverpool, illetve egész Nagy-Britannia zenei örökségéhez, és átnevezése nagy butaság lenne. A Penny Lane című szám Paul McCartney és John Lennon szerzeményeként 1967 februárjában jelent meg az ugyancsak Liverpool által ihletett Strawberry Fields Forever című számmal együtt egy kislemezen. A felvétel a Beatles révén ugyancsak világhírűvé vált londoni Abbey Roadon lévő stúdióban készült.
Penny Lane
In Penny Lane there is a barber showing photographsOf every head he's had the pleasure to know
And all the people that come and g
Stop and say hello
On the corner is a banker with a motorcar
The little children laugh at him behind his back
And the banker never wears a mack in the pouring rain
Very strange
Penny Lane is in my ears and in my eyes
There beneath the blue suburban skies
I sit and meanwhile back in
Penny Lane there is a fireman with an hourglass
And in his pocket is a portrait of the Queen
He likes to keep his fire engine clean
It's a clean machine
Penny Lane is in my ears and in my eyes
A four of fish and finger pies
In summer meanwhile back
Behind the shelter in the middle of a roundabout
A pretty nurse is selling poppies from a tray
And though she feels as if she's in a play
She is anyway
Penny Lane, the barber shaves another customer
We see the banker sitting waiting for a trim
And the fireman rushes in from the pouring rain
Very strange
Penny Lane is in my ears and in my eyes
There beneath the blue suburban skies
I sit and meanwhile back
Penny Lane is in my ears and in my eyes
There beneath the blue suburban skies
Penny Lane
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