Paul on ‘Penny Lane’ - "I remember saying to George Martin, ‘I want a very clean recording.’ I was into clean sounds – maybe a Beach Boy influence at that point." "The ‘fireman with his hourglass’ and all that imagery was us trying to get into a bit of art. The lyrics were all based on real things. There was a barber called something like Bioletti (I think he’s actually still there in Penny Lane) who, like all barbers, had pictures of the haircuts you could choose. But instead of saying, ‘The ba

Tra-la-la-la-la-la! This song is from The Barber of Seville, but funnily enough it did not appear in The Rabbit of Seville. | MeTV Toons