Editing Penny Lane (section)

===Music===
[[File:Penny Lane - Barber.jpg|thumb|The barber shop (pictured in 2018) formerly owned by Harry Bioletti, who is referred to in the song as "a barber showing photographs / Of every head he's had the pleasure to know".]]
"Penny Lane" begins in the [[Key (music)|key]] of B major{{sfn|MacDonald|2005|p=497}} and is in [[common time]] throughout.<ref name="Pollack/Notes">{{cite web|url=https://www.icce.rug.nl/~soundscapes/DATABASES/AWP/pl.shtml|first=Alan W.|last=Pollack|title=Notes on 'Penny Lane'|publisher=Soundscapes|date=1995|access-date=13 June 2019}}</ref> The song comprises three rounds of two verses and a chorus, with the chorus repeated during the final round.<ref name="Pollack/Notes" /> In its melody, the composition has a double tonic structure of B major verse (in I–vi–ii–V cycles) and A major chorus connected by formal [[Pivot chord|pivoting]] dominant chords.{{sfn|Pedler|2003|p=658}} In the opening bars in B major, after singing "In Penny Lane" (in an F{{music|#}}–B–C{{music|#}}–D{{music|#}} melody note ascent) McCartney sings the major third of the first chord in the progression (on "Lane") and major seventh (on "barber") then switches to a Bm chord, singing the flattened third notes (on "know" with a i<sup>7</sup> [Bm<sup>7</sup>] chord) and flattened seventh notes (on "come and ''go''" [with a {{music|b}}VI<sup>maj7</sup> [G<sup>maj7</sup>] chord] and "''say'' hello" [with a V<sup>7sus4</sup> [F{{music|#}}<sup>7sus4</sup>] chord]).{{sfn|Pedler|2003|pp=658–59}} Musicologist Dominic Pedler describes this as a profound and surprising innovation involving abandoning mid-cycle what initially appears to be a standard I–vi–ii–V [[doo-wop]] pop chord cycle.{{sfn|Pedler|2003|p=659}}

The song features [[verse–chorus form|contrasting verse–chorus form]].{{sfn|Everett|1999|p=86}} To get from the verse "In the pouring rain – very strange" McCartney uses an E chord as a pivot, (it is a IV chord in the preceding B key and a V in the looming A key) to take listeners back into the chorus ("Penny Lane is in my ears&nbsp;..."). Likewise to get back from the chorus of "There beneath the blue suburban skies I sit, and meanwhile back&nbsp;...", McCartney uses an F{{music|#}}<sup>7</sup> pivot chord, which is a VI in the old A key and a V in the new B key. The lyrics "very strange" and "meanwhile back" reflect these tonal shifts.{{sfn|Pedler|2003|pp=348–49}}