Lennon: "Strawberry Fields is a real place. After I stopped living at Penny Lane, I moved in with my auntie who lived in the suburbs in a nice semidetached place with a small garden and doctors and lawyers and that ilk living around… not the poor slummy kind of image that was projected in all the Beatles stories. In the class system, it was about half a class higher than Paul, George and Ringo, who lived in government-subsidized housing. We owned our house and had a garden. They didn’t have anything like that. Near that home was Strawberry Fields, a house near a boys’ reformatory where I used to go to garden parties as a kid with my friends Nigel and Pete we would go there and hang out and sell lemonade bottles for a penny. We always had fun at Strawberry Fields. So that’s where I got the name. But I used it as an image. Strawberry Fields forever."
Lennon wrote this while he was in Spain working on a movie called How I Won The War.
De single is van twee verschillende versies gemaakt. Het was een stukje knutselwerk van George Martin die de ene versie iets omhoog pichte en de andere iets omlaag zodat het precies paste. Na 59 seconden is de knip. je hoort het goed als je close luistert.
Just after Lennon sings, "Let me take you down ’cause I’m going to," there is a series of beeps which, in Morse Code, form the letters "J" and "L."
Dit is echt grappig en behalve een cover ook een hommage aan het gedoe met clues, codes en beatlehumor: Vanilla Fudge does a series of fractured covers of this song on the second side of their debut album. It is split up into four parts, titled "STRA" "WBER" "RYFI" and "ELDS." At the end of their cover of Eleanor Rigby, they sing "Nothing is real" and "Nothing to get hung about."
Lees ook:RACOON , LENNON EN AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL
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Lees ook:GOUDEN DODEN
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