When entertainer Jackson hit it big in the early 1980s, Penny Lane bought — and sold — thousands of his posters. “He was really the first big name we banked on and it paid off,” Joe said.

A Penny Lane street sign stolen by students in 1976 has been returned to Liverpool, England. It was taken nine years after the Beatles' song made the road legendary. An ex-student returned the sign.

A Penny Lane street sign stolen by drunk students has been returned to Liverpool - 47 years after the theft. The sign was taken in 1976, nine years after the Beatles' single immortalised the road.