In their 1967 single “Penny Lane,” the Beatles described life on a suburban street. The word “suburban” comes up in the first chorus and the last choruses in the song:

Penny Lane is in my ears and in my eyes
Wet beneath the blue suburban skies
I sit and meanwhile back in

What suburbia were they thinking about? Here is a discussion of the street from Wikipedia:

Penny Lane is a road in the south Liverpool suburb of Mossley Hill. The name also applies to the area surrounding its junction with Smithdown Road and Allerton Road, and to the roundabout at Smithdown Place that was the location for a major bus terminus, originally an important tram junction of Liverpool Corporation Tramways.^[8] The roundabout was a frequent stopping place for John Lennon, Paul McCartney and George Harrison during their years as schoolchildren and students.^[8] Bus journeys via Penny Lane and the area itself subsequently became familiar elements in the early years of the Lennon–McCartney songwriting partnership.^[9]

This area just a few minutes from downtown Liverpool is not quite the sprawling suburbia of the United States. It might be akin to a residential neighborhood in a major American city or part of an inner-ring suburb. Yet it invokes some similar sentiments with its emphasis on everyday life, blue skies, and upbeat music.

Outside of this one song, the Beatles do not say much about suburbs. They discuss other places – see this video here – but the growing suburbs of the United States and other places do not draw much attention. Their childhood experiences in the Liverpool suburbs live on as one contribution to popular music about suburbs.