Comments on: Strawberry Fields Forever

By: MikeP

MikeP — Thu, 10 Jan 2019 01:39:03 +0000

Thank you, Teddy. It appalls me that people always want to reference that crap.
As Geoff Emerick said (paraphrasing): you wouldn’t repaint the Sistine Chapel ceiling, would you?

By: Ginette Goulston-Lincoln

Ginette Goulston-Lincoln — Tue, 08 Jan 2019 10:37:00 +0000

Hi Judy, not sure if you have heard – Strawberry Field is opening to the public for the first time at the end of July as a heritage attraction. Judy do you have any photographs of your life at Strawberry Field or would you like to be interviewed? If so please contact us and of course we would like to invite you to see it.
Strawberry Field will now consist of a new visitor experience including an authentic inter-active exhibition with media guide; a stylish cafe and shop; and tour of the gardens of John’s childhood. Importantly, it will be a training/work placement hub for young people with learning disabilities and a place for spiritual exploration. More about it via http://strawberryfieldliverpool.com
Best wishes

By: MikeP

MikeP — Fri, 21 Dec 2018 03:37:40 +0000

McCartney was also developing the whole time. For example “Yesterday”, “Eleanor Rigby”, “Penny Lane”, “Hey Jude”.
I really wish you could actually add something useful to the song discussion instead of your vain attempts to convince us fans that your John-love / Paul-hate is somehow accurate and supported by a meandering tome on opera, of all things.

By: MikeP

MikeP — Fri, 21 Dec 2018 03:30:22 +0000

Well, I am 61 and I CLEARLY hear “cranberry sauce”. Listen to the Anthology and you can’t possibly miss it.
As for your reference to an interview, site the source. This is the first time in the 52 years of this record’s existence that I’ve ever heard that.

By: MikeP

MikeP — Fri, 21 Dec 2018 03:26:26 +0000

Now we’re into amateur psychoanalysis, are we?
BTW, virtually everyone – but you, of course – find Ringo’s drums to be an integral part of the arrangement and recording.
I still think you are trolling here….. it’s a shame because this time, the song IS a masterpiece.

By: Slave

Slave — Fri, 16 Nov 2018 08:26:14 +0000

When I’m 64 should have been the b-side of Penny Lane. Think of how perfectly SFF would have sat between Within You Without You and Lovely Rita.

By: Teddy Salad

Teddy Salad — Mon, 27 Aug 2018 20:33:08 +0000

Apart from “Love” being an abomination and the reason I stopped listening to Pandora.

By: Boudin

Boudin — Wed, 15 Aug 2018 18:49:41 +0000

The second line [sic] goes, ‘No one I think is in my tree.’ Well, what I was trying to say in that line is ‘Nobody seems to be as hip as me, therefore I must be crazy or a genius.’ It’s the same problem as I had when I was five: ‘There is something wrong with me because I seem to see things other people don’t see. Am I crazy, or am I a genius?’ … What I’m saying, in my insecure way, is ‘Nobody seems to understand where I’m coming from. I seem to see things in a different way from most people.’

I’ve always wondered if Lennon was alluding to William Blake with this. Blake was probably both crazy and a genius and recorded having visions of angels and said that he saw and conversed with the angel Gabriel, Mary, and various historical figures. Around age nine he had a vision of “a tree filled with angels, bright angelic wings bespangling every bough like stars.”

Likewise with the Berie Taupin penned Elton John song “Burn Down the Mission” which begins:
“You tell me there’s an angel in your tree
Did he say he’d come to call on me?”

By: Mark M

Mark M — Mon, 07 May 2018 16:03:50 +0000

I agree, SFF was the Beatles’ peak. Lennon did other great songs of varying styles, but the psychedelic period, for me, was the peak of music in general. Two of my other favourite groups, the Byrds and the Kinks, did amazing stuff during this time as well. Inventive ideas were being passed back and forward between all these great bands. After ’68 things slowed down and mellowed, maybe psychedelia and the baggage that came with it was too intense.

By: Jordan John

Jordan John — Tue, 06 Feb 2018 21:19:22 +0000

Last 30 secs of take 7. Wow.

By: SpikeCB

SpikeCB — Thu, 25 Jan 2018 07:11:58 +0000

Can you post an article or some thing which mentions this? It would put an end to the rumors that Paul is dead and reconcile with what John said.

By: Phil Ryan

Phil Ryan — Wed, 20 Sep 2017 23:30:26 +0000

No they mean sliding up down the fretboard with a slide, but not on a pedal steel guitar which I think is what you’re referring to.

By: Phil Ryan

Phil Ryan — Wed, 20 Sep 2017 23:28:33 +0000

It’s because PL was the A side in America where it went to number 1. The double A-side released in UK only got to #2, so technically SFF was never #1.

By: Toldyou96

Toldyou96 — Wed, 16 Aug 2017 14:51:24 +0000

Having just watched and listened several times, I find little to convince me it is the same passage. I think it is more of what Wenko Millaard states here than actually the early stages of S.F.F., although I am not a musician as that poster is. What I also see as evidence against is the complete lack of commentary by Lennon himself stating he had been noodling at the tune for over two years. We all know how critical he was of his own work; this song is a self-described favorite of his so it stands to reason he would have said something. Therefore, I vote no. It’s a “romantic” thought, if you will, but no.

By: Gustavo Solórzano Alfaro

Gustavo Solórzano Alfaro — Mon, 12 Jun 2017 16:11:35 +0000

Now, the deluxe 50 anniversary “Sgt. Pepper” states that George did not play a slide guitar part, but a mellotron with the guitar setting instead, and that Martin also played a mellotron part. The information in ths edition is a little bit confusing regarding all the songs. The line-up says one thing and the recording details tells a different story.

By: Hennyon

Hennyon — Fri, 28 Apr 2017 14:33:45 +0000

When you talk about “slide” on these occasions, I guess you mean sliding up or down the fretboard with your finger, and not actual slide guitar, with a bottleneck or similar device?

By: Gustavo Solórzano Alfaro

Gustavo Solórzano Alfaro — Wed, 19 Apr 2017 20:39:39 +0000

Line-up, according to Lewisohn / Babiuk / Everett

Part I:

Ringo: drums
George: slide guitar and maracas
Paul: mellotron, bass and piano?
John: doubled-tracked lead vocals, rythm guitar and piano?

Part II:

Ringo: drums and backward cymbals (loop)
George: swaramandal and timpani
Paul: bass, bongos, mellotron? (loop?) and piano?
John: double-tracked lead voclas, maracas, mellotron? (loop?) and piano?

with:

Mal Evans: tambourine
Niel Aspinall: güiro
Terry Doran: maracas

plus

3 cellos and 4 trumpets

By: Xan

Xan — Sat, 15 Apr 2017 08:24:37 +0000

How was it, Judy, living at Strwberry Firlds Orphanage? Was it happy, sad? Good, bad? Did you ever see John and his friends playing in the garden? Were the Salvation Army people kind to you? How did things turn out? Thank you for your comment.

By: tiff333

tiff333 — Tue, 14 Mar 2017 17:23:22 +0000

True that, Strawberry Fields Forver is deep and intriguing which is the main reason why I adore this song very much.

By: Josiah

Josiah — Fri, 27 Jan 2017 09:49:33 +0000

Second favourite Beatles song, and song of all time, right behind A Day In the Life. The height of my favourite sub-genre; psychedelia.