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05 February, 1967 - The Band Shoot Horse Scenes For Penny Lane Promo Film
In early February, 1967, The Beatles shot horse scenes for the promo film for Penny Lane around Statford, in London.
After the band stopped touring, and because travelling around the globe to promote new releases was impossible, The Beatles increasingly made what could be described as “mini movies”. These pioneering promotional films and videos helped to define the way we have come to watch music, not least because the band approached filming with the same ease and innovative spirit they brought to the recording studio, exploring new creative possibilities with infectious delight.
On the corner is a banker with a motorcar,
The little children laugh at him behind his back.
And the banker never wears a mac
In the pouring rain, very strange.
Penny Lane is in my ears and in my eyes,
There beneath the blue suburban skies
I sit, and meanwhile back
It’s part fact, part nostalgia for a great place - blue suburban skies, as we remember it - and it’s still there. And we put in a joke or two: ‘four of fish and finger pie’.
Paul
Penny Lane was restored in 2015, as part of The Beatles 1 Video Collection.
I think it’s really interesting to see the videos we made, some of them incredible and some of them really incredible. How else would we have got to sit on a horse?
Ringo
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