Posted on 06/15/2020 7:53:54 AM PDT by knighthawk
Penny Lane, the road in Liverpool that gained worldwide recognition after The Beatles wrote a song about it, is now “in danger of being renamed” if it can be proven that its title is linked to a slave trader, a local politician says.
Steve Rotherham, the mayor of the Liverpool city region, issued the warning to Sky News on Monday as a debate has emerged over the origins of the name Penny Lane.
One of the road’s signs was defaced on Friday with the word “RACIST” spray-painted next to it in an apparent reference to James Penny, a Liverpool-based slave trader whom the BBC says defended the practice during a parliamentary inquiry in the late 1700s.
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Imagine there’s no Beatles. It’s easy if you try.
This could get interesting.
Waiting for the following name changes here:
Yale University
Columbia University
I quote John Lennon, “I don’t believe in Beatles, I just believe in me.” Good point there. After all, he was the walrus. I could be the walrus. I’d still have to bum rides off people.”
How about Washington DC?
I thought her real name was Lady Goodman.
That’s coming, too. New flag, New Constitution, the whole works!
What’s next, Strawberry Field?
Hey, no one is perfect.
Well … perhaps that's not so.
Can we name everything after Jesus?
New York
I know, I know we cannot just listen to recordings of people with whom we agree politically. One great past FReeper put up a meme of the one LP we can listen to: Charlton Heston Reads the Bible. I saw that LP at a used record store here--they used it as a decoration on the wall.
But I refuse to accept that dirty anti-semite Roger Waters of Pink Floyd ("Israel is illegitimate and on occupied Arab land.") and Neil Young who spews hatred of President Trump every day or two. Probably too drunk and drugged out to form a sentence the other days.
And I remember this vividly: NME Magazine: Aug 30, 2016 - Watch Paul McCartney perform at a private fundraiser for Hillary Clinton. The Beatle also apparently danced with the US Presidential candidate ...
He also put his arms around Hillary and gave her a full embrace, to her delight.
Holding down my breakfast--barely.
It’s obvious that the Beatles should be punished too. After all, they made the place famous. They glorified it. I demand that every Beatles recording be collected, and then destroyed.
Oh, and since I’m about as “woke” as you can get, I have already destroyed my own Beatles collection. Onward the Revolution!
Waters is a POS. I'm sure David Gilmour probably also tilts way left, but for the most part he's been able to shut up and sing. I think Gilmour, by far, is the more talented of the two.
Just do what King County (Seattle) did, just say it’s now named after Martin Luther King. I’m sure they can find some black guy named “Penny” they can name it after.
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