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Place names

Specific real locations – streets, cities, neighborhoods, or landmarks – are named in the lyrics

songs

Songs tagged 'Vignette' carry the 'Place names' tag about 5.1x as often as the catalogue average (8 of 19, vs an overall rate of 18 in 217 songs).

Analysis

Song count per year

% of each member's catalogue with this tag (by writing credit)

Early0 · 0%

Mid-period9 · 56%

Late7 · 44%

Year

Album

Writer

Lead vocal(s)

#	Title	Year	Album	Lead Vocal(s)	Notes
1	In My Life	1965	Rubber Soul	John	Original draft listed Liverpool sites; generalised in final lyric
2	Norwegian Wood (This Bird Has Flown)	1965	Rubber Soul	John	–
3	Penny Lane	1967	Magical Mystery Tour	Paul	Penny Lane, Liverpool
4	Strawberry Fields Forever	1967	Magical Mystery Tour	John	Strawberry Field, Liverpool
5	A Day in the Life	1967	Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band	John, Paul	Blackburn, Lancashire; Albert Hall
6	Being for the Benefit of Mr. Kite!	1967	Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band	John	Bishopsgate; Pablo Fanque's Fair
7	When I'm Sixty-Four	1967	Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band	Paul	Isle of Wight
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8	I Am the Walrus	1967	Magical Mystery Tour	John	Eiffel Tower; English garden
9	Blue Jay Way	1967	Magical Mystery Tour	George	L.A.; Blue Jay Way (Hollywood Hills street)
10	Back in the U.S.S.R.	1968	The Beatles (The White Album)	Paul	U.S.S.R., Miami Beach, Ukraine, Moscow, Georgia
11	Rocky Raccoon	1968	The Beatles (The White Album)	Paul	Black Mountain hills of Dakota
12	Glass Onion	1968	The Beatles (The White Album)	John	Strawberry Fields
13	Cry Baby Cry	1968	The Beatles (The White Album)	John	Kirkcaldy
14	Honey Pie	1968	The Beatles (The White Album)	Paul	North of England; U.S.A.; Hollywood; Atlantic
15	Get Back	1969	Let It Be	Paul	Tucson, Arizona; California
16	The Ballad of John and Yoko	1969	Past Masters	John	Southampton, Holland, France, Paris, Seine, Gibraltar, Amsterdam, Vienna, London