Paul McCartney was sitting at a bus shelter waiting for John Lennon to meet him on Penny Lane, a street in Liverpool near their houses. While sitting there Paul jotted down the things he saw, including a barbers shop with pictures of its clients and a nurse selling poppies, a herbaceous plant with showy flowers. He later turned these into the song we now know. Penny Lane still contains the bank and barbers shop mentioned in the song, however the shelter in the middle of the roundabout where the nurse sells the poppies has now become a restaurant named Sgt. Peppers Bistro. The trumpet part was added after the rest of the song was finished. McCartney was watching the BBC when he saw a group called The New Philharmonic perform Bachs Brandenburg Concerto #2. He got the idea to add a trumpet part, and asked the groups trumpet player, Dave Mason, to play on this. Mason brought 9 trumpets to the session . Later, Dave Mason played on a few other Beatles songs, including A Day in the Life, Magical Mystery Tour, and All You Need Is Love. The trumpet that David Jones played on this track was sold at auction in 1987 for the equivalent of nearly $11,000. John Lennon played piano and George Harrison played the conga drum. There is no guitar. Penny Lane and Strawberry Fields Forever were intended for Sgt. Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band, but Capitol Records decided to release the two songs as a single Charts positions: US: 1 UK: 2 – Year 1966
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