village virtually teeming with ‘nowhere men’.
Written by Paul McCartney, recorded during the Sgt. Pepper sessions, and released in February 1967 as one side of a double A-sided single, along with Lennon's "Strawberry Fields Forever". Beatles producer George Martin has said he believes the pairing of these songs resulted in probably the greatest single ever released by the group.
Penny Lane is a study in ‘mundanity’. The simple sights and sounds of an ordinary suburban neighbourhood; of completely commonplace and inconsequential people and events, all set to that rich melody, with the horns, the flute.
The chorus: "Penny Lane is in my ears and in my eyes/There beneath the blue suburban skies..." highlights the importance of memory - the importance of experience - the way the smallest visual and aural details build up to form and inform this amazing thing we call Life.
All around us are ordinary phenomena – people, homes, school, shops, shopping centres, neighbourhoods, parks, phone calls, emails, street scenes, routine family life, artistic and cinematic depictions of how we live our lives, everyday work and commercial situations, sociable occasions, non-professional sports activities, transportation contexts, venues of legal and political action, viewing televised entertainment, consuming information from various media, and so on and so on.