Penny Lane

This is the line that's built on that descending major scale that we were talking about on the first episode where Paul used the same trick in a lot of later songs.

Penny Lane, Maxwell Silverhammer, Hello Goodbye, Lady Madonna.

I like his vocal here.

It does get more forceful, but it doesn't seem angry, but he's kind of pleading.

Do you know what that later song is, Austin?

Yeah, Penny Lane.

Yeah.

And one other song, too.

What I like to do is I put together what Beatles songs do we want to do and that we kind of have to do.

So you've got to do Hey Jude, you've got to do Let It Be, you've got to do... you know yesterday um penny lane we like to do and then we also look at the wings catalog which is very very popular right now because of the um uh the hall of fame that wings are in now you know they have a special exhibition you know yeah so we we do a just pretty much 50 50 of wings and beatles and solo you know yeah yeah that's how i look at

it

you know yeah you got it so much to choose from so i guess it's a you know it's a problem it's a good problem because you got so many songs you can choose from and still make everybody happy Right, right.

Well, we're going to have all the visuals on the screens behind us.

It looks really good.

When we play Penny Lane, you'll see Penny Lane, you know, and it's really great.

Good visuals.

No, well, they started in 1966, didn't they? They come back.

They did Strawberry Fields and Penny Lane's.

Yeah, because they put out Strawberry Fields and Penny Lane before Christmas.

And then they did a break, and then the

record company said, look, we need a single, so we're just going to peel those off your new album and put them out now.

Today, we were in Liverpool, Garston.

And after a certain amount of arguing over exactly what was or wasn't in the constituency, it's sort of Beatles adjacent, Penny Lane around that area, Liverpool Airport, the John Lennon Airport.

We had lots of good claims, but in the end, Jeanette won with this.

My real nominee is Charlie, my tortoise.

And we passed George in the control room.

And Paul... brought us down to the piano and he played them Penny Lane unaccompanied by anything else just on the piano and he said I can still remember we're sort of leaning around the piano and he sang Penny Lane to us and he said that was a memory I'll cherish for the rest of my life

oh my god

just incredible

And beneath the blue, it's a fabulous sky.

The Beatles occupied the third spot in our opening bracket today with Penny Lane, written by Paul.

The lyrics refer to a street in Liverpool where John and Paul would often meet up.

Also in there, Elton John with Daniel, taken off the Goodbye Yellow Brick Road album, which also had on it Crocodile Rock.

We always have arguments with Capitol as to whether they should put singles on or not.

Penny Lane and Strawberry.

But, um, I hope they don't, because, uh, it's, Strawberry Fields Forever and Penny Lane are selling here better than our last few singles, and those are pretty big.

So it'd be very nice for America if we didn't put on the two singles-

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