As It Happens4:56Penny Lane sign returned 47 years after it was stolen by young, drunk Beatles fans
The Penny Lane street sign is back in Liverpool, England, nearly five decades after a group of tipsy university students wrested it from its home beneath the city’s clear suburban skies.
The Beatles Story museum in Liverpool says a man emailed them out of the blue in March to confess that he and his friends nabbed the sign in 1976 while they were feeling “worse for wear” after a night of boozing.
“Because I am getting on a bit now, I want to return it to the
