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The view from the remote B842 which is thought to have inspired Paul McCartney (Image: Courtesy Jon Combe)
Ventura Highway. Route 66. Highway 61. The New Jersey Turnpike. Santa Monica Boulevard. For as long as there’s been cars and rock ’n’ roll, musicians have been inspired to write songs about roads – more often than not in America.
And yet, arguably, the most famous road song of them all isn’t about a highway in California, Arizona or Texas. In fact the name, or rather number, of…
