Title:	Penny Lane
Credits:	John Lennon - Paul McCartney
Recorded:	EMI Studios, London, 29 and 30 December 1966; 4, 5, 6, 9, 10, 12 and 17 January 1967
Producer:	George Martin
Engineer:	Geoff Emerick
Location:	Magical Mystery Tour - track 9

When Johns Strawberry Fields Forever was issued as a single on 17 February 1967 it appeared as a double A-side with Paul's Penny Lane, another brilliant song about a childhood Liverpool location. Their release as a single saw them pulled from the project for which they were once conceived, the album that was to become Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band. Penny Lane is the perfect counterpoint to Strawberry Fields Forever and it highlights the different ways in which both Lennon and McCartney were at their perspective creative peaks at this time. The song has a strong keyboard feel and is also awash with four flutes, four trumpets, two piccolos, a flugelhorn, two oboes, two cor anglais, a double-bass and a hand-bell. But the most distinctive sound on Penny Lane is a B-flat piccolo trumpet, played by New Philharmonic musician David Mason in a style hummed by Paul McCartney and instantly transcribed to music by George Martin.