“In Penny Lane there is a barber showing photographs
of every head he’s had the pleasure to know
and all the people that come and go 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 stranger
Penny Lane is in my ears and in my eyes
there beneath the blue suburban skies I sit and meanwhile back”
Das sangen die Beatles 1967 über eine Straße in ihrer Heimatstadt. Liverpool insgesamt hat wenig von dem Charme behalten, den die Pilzköpfe einst in Form ihrer lustigen Anekdotensammlung besangen. Weiterlesen