“Strawberry Fields Forever”
Single by The Beatles from the album Magical Mystery Tour
A-side	"Penny Lane"
Released	13 February 1967 (UK) 17 February 1967 (US)
Format	7"
Recorded	Abbey Road: November–December 1966
Genre	Psychedelic rock/Experimental rock
Length	4:10
Label	Parlophone (UK) Capitol (U. The Beatles were a pop and rock band from Liverpool, England formed in 1960 Magical Mystery Tour is the name of the 11-song Album and six-song Double EP by the English rock band The Beatles, first A-side and B-side originally referred to the two sides of 7 inch Vinyl records on which singles were released beginning in the 1950s " Penny Lane " is a song by The Beatles, written by Paul McCartney, recorded during the Sgt Events 1258 - Baghdad falls to the Mongols, and the Abbasid Caliphate is destroyed Year 1967 ( MCMLXVII) was a Common year starting on Sunday (link will display full calendar of the 1967 Gregorian calendar. The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom, the UK or Britain,is a Sovereign state located Events 1500 - Battle of Hemmingstedt. 1600 - Philosopher Giordano Bruno is burned alive at Campo de' Fiori Year 1967 ( MCMLXVII) was a Common year starting on Sunday (link will display full calendar of the 1967 Gregorian calendar. The United States of America —commonly referred to as the A gramophone Abbey Road Studios, established in November 1931 by EMI in London, England, is a Recording studio located at number 3 Abbey Road, A music genre is a categorical and typological construct that identifies musical sounds as belonging to a particular category and type of music that can be distinguished from other Psychedelic rock is a style of Rock music that attempts to replicate the mind-altering experiences of hallucinogenic drugs. Experimental rock or avant-garde rock is a type of music based on rock which experiments with the basic elements of the genre and/or which pushes the boundaries In the Music industry, a record label can be a Brand and a Trademark associated with the Marketing of music recordings and Music Parlophone is a Record label, founded in Germany in 1896 by the Carl Lindström Company. Capitol Records is a major United States -based Record label owned by EMI and located in Hollywood California and New York City as S. )
Writer(s)	Lennon/McCartney
Producer	George Martin
The Beatles singles chronology
"Eleanor Rigby" / "Yellow Submarine" (1966) "Strawberry Fields Forever" / "Penny Lane" (1967) "All You Need Is Love" (1967)
Music sample
"Strawberry Fields Forever" Problems? See media help. A songwriter is someone who writes the Lyrics to songs the Musical composition (chords or Melody to songs or both The Songwriting partnership of John Lennon and Paul McCartney, usually referred to as Lennon/McCartney, is one of the best-known and In the Music industry, a record producer or music producer has many roles among them controlling the recording sessions coaching and guiding the musicians organizing Sir George Henry Martin CBE (3 January 1926 is a British record producer arranger and Composer. The Beatles were a pop and rock band from Liverpool, England formed in 1960 " Eleanor Rigsby " is a song by The Beatles, originally released on the 1966 Album Revolver. " Yellow Submarine " is a 1966 song by The Beatles (credited to Lennon/McCartney) which was recorded by John Lennon, Paul McCartney " Penny Lane " is a song by The Beatles, written by Paul McCartney, recorded during the Sgt " All You Need Is Love " is a song written by John Lennon and credited to Lennon/McCartney.
Magical Mystery Tour track listing
"Hello, Goodbye" (7) "Strawberry Fields Forever" (8) "Penny Lane" (9)

"Strawberry Fields Forever" is a song recorded at the end of 1966 by The Beatles, and released at the beginning of 1967. Magical Mystery Tour is the name of the 11-song Album and six-song Double EP by the English rock band The Beatles, first " Hello Goodbye " is a song by the English rock band The Beatles. " Penny Lane " is a song by The Beatles, written by Paul McCartney, recorded during the Sgt The Beatles were a pop and rock band from Liverpool, England formed in 1960 Written by John Lennon, multiple critics have described it as one of the group's best recordings. John Winston Ono Lennon, MBE (born ^[1][2] It is one of the defining works of the psychedelic rock genre and has been covered numerous times. Psychedelic rock is a style of Rock music that attempts to replicate the mind-altering experiences of hallucinogenic drugs.

The song gave its name to the Strawberry Fields memorial in New York City's Central Park, near the site of Lennon's murder at The Dakota apartment building. Strawberry Fields is a 25-acre landscaped section in New York City 's Central Park that is dedicated to the memory of musician John Lennon. The City of New York Central Park is a large public Urban park in New York City, with about twenty-five million visitors annually The Dakota, constructed from October 25, 1880 to October 27, 1884, is an Apartment building located on the northwest corner of ^[3][4]

Composition

Lennon began writing the song in late 1966, while in Almería, Spain filming Richard Lester's How I Won the War. Spain () or the Kingdom of Spain (Reino de España is a country located mostly in southwestern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula. Richard Lester (born January 19, 1932) is a British -based Film director famous for his work with The Beatles in the 1960s How I Won the War is a Black comedy film directed by Richard Lester, released in 1967. ^[5] Lennon's "Strawberry Fields Forever" and McCartney's "Penny Lane" shared the theme of nostalgia for their childhood in Liverpool. " Penny Lane " is a song by The Beatles, written by Paul McCartney, recorded during the Sgt The term nostalgia describes a longing for the past often in idealized form Liverpool ( is a City and Metropolitan borough of Merseyside, England along the eastern side of the Mersey Estuary While both referred to actual locations there, they also had strong surrealistic and psychedelic overtones.

Strawberry Field now attracts large numbers of tourists

Strawberry Field was the name of a Salvation Army Children's Home just around the corner from Lennon's boyhood home in the Woolton suburb of Liverpool. Strawberry Field was a Salvation Army children's home in Woolton, a suburb of Liverpool, England. The Salvation Army is a Christian charity and church that is internally organised like a military service. Woolton is a suburb of Liverpool, Merseyside, England and a Liverpool City Council Ward. Lennon and his childhood friends Pete Shotton and Ivan Vaughan used to play in the trees behind the home. Peter Shotton (born 4 August 1941 in Liverpool) is an English businessman best known for his long friendship with John Lennon of Ivan Vaughan (18 June 1942 - 16 August 1993 was a boyhood friend of John Lennon, and later schoolmate of Paul McCartney at the Liverpool Institute, both ^[6] One of Lennon's childhood treats was the garden party held each summer on the grounds of Strawberry Field. Lennon's Aunt Mimi recalled: "As soon as we could hear the Salvation Army band starting, John would jump up and down shouting, 'Mimi, come on. Mary Elizabeth "Mimi" Smith (née Stanley) (1903 – 6 December 1992 is best known as the maternal Aunt and parental guardian of the English musician We're going to be late. '"^[7]

The period of its composition was one of momentous change and dislocation for Lennon. The Beatles had just retired from touring after one of the most difficult periods of their career, including the infamous "more popular than Jesus" controversy and their disastrous tour of the Philippines. John Winston Ono Lennon, MBE (born The Philippines ( Filipino: Pilipinas, officially known as the Republic of the Philippines (fil ''Republika ng Pilipinas'' RP Lennon's marriage was failing, and the psychological wounds of his childhood were causing him renewed pain. He was also using increasing quantities of drugs, especially the powerful hallucinogen LSD. A psychoactive drug or psychotropic substance is a Chemical substance that acts primarily upon the Central nervous system where it alters Brain The general group of pharmacological agents commonly known as hallucinogens can be divided into three broad categories Psychedelics, Dissociatives Although there are no obvious references to drugs, the song's style, tone, and oblique stream of consciousness lyrics are often thought to have been influenced by his LSD experiences.

Lennon said about the song in 1980:

"I was different all my life. The second verse goes, 'No one I think is in my tree. ' Well, I was too shy and self-doubting. Nobody seems to be as hip as me is what I was saying. Therefore, I must be crazy or a genius-- 'I mean it must be high or low,'"^[8]

There exists a rich documentary record of demos and studio takes which reveal the evolution of the song. The earliest demo version of the song has a single verse with no refrain:

No one is on my wavelength, I mean, it's either too high or too low; That is you can't you know tune in but it's all right, I mean it's not too bad.

In later demo versions Lennon altered this verse to make it more obscure, and added a second verse; these became the second and third verses respectively on the released version. The first verse on the released version was written close to the time of the song's recording.

According to Simon Freeman of Times Online, "The words 'nothing to get hung about' were inspired by Aunt Mimi's strictures not to play in the grounds. It has gone down in Beatles mythology that the young Lennon would reply: 'They can't hang you for it'. "^[9]

Recording

The song's groundbreaking production and complex arrangement gave clear evidence of the band's near-total mastery of the recording studio and their increasingly avant-garde approach to their music. Avant-garde (avɑ̃gaʁd in French) means "advance guard" or "vanguard It featured extensive overdubbing, prominent use of reverse tape effects and tape loops, and extensive audio compression and equalization. Tape loops are loops of prerecorded Magnetic tape used to create repetitive rhythmic musical patterns or dense layers of sound In addition to the standard guitar-bass-drums backing, the arrangement also included piano, Mellotron (played by McCartney)^[10], trumpets, cellos and some unusual instruments including the swarmandel,^[11] an Indian stringed instrument which provided the sitar-like sound at the end of each chorus. The Mellotron is an electro-mechanical polyphonic keyboard originally developed and built in Birmingham, England in the early 1960s The violoncello (abbreviated to cello, or 'cello, plural cellos or celli —the c is tʃ India, officially the Republic of India (भारत गणराज्य inc-Latn Bhārat Gaṇarājya; see also other Indian languages) is a country

The released version of the song is an edit of two different performances. The band recorded multiple takes of two quite distinct versions of the song. The first version featured relatively basic instrumentation of Mellotron, guitars, bass and drums. For the second version, recorded some weeks later, Lennon opted for a much more complex arrangement (scored by George Martin) that included trumpets and cellos, along with the prominent sound of backwards cymbals during the verses. Sir George Henry Martin CBE (3 January 1926 is a British record producer arranger and Composer.

Lennon decided that he liked the first part of Take 7 (the first version) and the ending of Take 26 (the "orchestral" version). He wanted the finished master to combine these sections from the two versions, and he gave the task of joining them together to producer Martin and recording engineer Geoff Emerick. ^[12]

Martin's and Emerick's problem was that the two versions were played in different keys and tempos (Take 7 in A major and Take 26 in C major). A major (or the key of A) is a Major scale based on A with the pitches A, B, C{{music|sharp}}, D, E, See also C minor, C-sharp minor C major (often just C or key of C) is a musical Major scale based on C ^[13] Fortunately for Martin and Emerick, the faster version was also in the higher key. That the two pieces of the song, when joined, have the same tempo and the same key is the result of slowing down the faster and higher-keyed version and speeding up the slower and lower-keyed version to a speed at which both tempo and key matched. (Decreasing the playback speed of a recording has the effect of lowering its key, while increasing a recording's playback speed raises its key. ) That the two takes were able to match when tempered in this way and fit together so seamlessly was, according to George Martin, a happy coincidence; when Lennon had first asked Martin to make this edit, the latter observed the two different takes and insisted it would be impossible. There are two edits in the released version: one just after the first verse, before "Let me take you down" (where a superfluous verse was removed); and the second a few seconds later, a more prominent edit between the words "'cause I'm" and "going to" at exactly one minute into the song (where Take 7 blends into Take 26). The pitch-shifting in joining the versions also gave Lennon's lead vocal a slightly other-worldly "swimming" quality. ^[14]

The instrument that produced the flute-like sound in the song's introduction was a Mellotron. The flute is a Musical instrument of the Woodwind family Unlike other woodwind instruments a flute is a Reedless wind instrument that produces its The Mellotron is an electro-mechanical polyphonic keyboard originally developed and built in Birmingham, England in the early 1960s The previous year, Mike Pinder of The Moody Blues, who had worked for Streetly Electronics under quality control and a test driver for 18 months, introduced the Mellotron to the Beatles, and all four of them purchased one within a week. Michael Thomas 'Mike' Pinder (born 27 December, 1941 to Bert and Gladys Pinder in Erdington, Birmingham, England) established The Moody Blues are an English psychedelic rock band originally from Erdington in the city of Birmingham. ^[15] One was brought in to the Abbey Road studio especially for the song, and McCartney performed the Mellotron during the recording. This innovative British-made electronic keyboard used eight-second tape segments (or samples) of real instruments such as brass, strings (used on take 1 of the song), and flutes (on takes 2 through 7). Following The Moody Blues, The Beatles were one of the first rock bands to acquire a Mellotron, and "Strawberry Fields Forever" is one of the first uses of the instrument on a pop recording (Graham Bond used it in 1965). Graham John Clifton Bond ( 28 October, 1937 in Romford, East London, England &ndash 8 May, 1974 at Finsbury As a result of the Beatles' patronage, the instrument was rapidly taken up by other groups and used on other famous recordings of the psychedelic era by Traffic and The Rolling Stones. Modern psychedelia For "psychedelics" see Psychedelic drug. Traffic were an English rock band formed in 1967 by Steve Winwood, Jim Capaldi, Chris Wood and Dave Mason.

Contrary to belief of the Paul Is Dead urban legend supporters, Lennon says "cranberry sauce" at the end of the song rather than "I buried Paul". " Paul is dead" is an Urban legend alleging that Paul McCartney of the British rock band The Beatles died in 1966 and Cranberry sauce is a Sauce or Relish made out of cranberries, commonly associated with Thanksgiving dinner in North America In 1974 McCartney said:

"That wasn't 'I buried Paul' at all-- that was John saying 'Cranberry sauce. ' It was the end of Strawberry Fields. That's John's humor. John would say something totally out of sync, like cranberry sauce. If you don't realize that John's apt to say cranberry sauce when he feels like it, then you start to hear a funny little word there, and you think, 'Aha!'"^[8]

Lennon himself confirmed this in a 1980 Playboy interview. Playboy is an American Men's magazine, founded in Chicago Illinois, by Hugh Hefner and his associates which has grown into Playboy He said that it was a kind of icing on the cake of the weirdness of the song, where anything he might have imagined saying would have been appropriate. On the sessions released in The Beatles Anthology, the words "cranberry sauce" are more clearly heard, especially during the edit piece joined onto the end of take 7.

Personnel

• John Lennon: double tracked lead vocals, lead guitar and piano. John Winston Ono Lennon, MBE (born Lead guitar refers to the use of a Guitar to perform Melody lines instrumental fill passages, and Guitar solos within a song structure The piano is a Musical instrument played by means of a keyboard that produces sound by striking steel strings with Felt covered hammers
• Paul McCartney: mellotron, bass and timpani. Sir James Paul McCartney, MBE (born 18 June 1942 is an English rock Singer, Bass guitarist songwriter Composer, The Mellotron is an electro-mechanical polyphonic keyboard originally developed and built in Birmingham, England in the early 1960s The electric bass guitar (also called electric bass, or simply bass; ˈbeɪs as in "base" is a Stringed instrument played primarily with the Timpani (also known colloquially as kettledrums or kettle drums) are Musical instruments in the percussion family
• George Harrison: slide guitar, swarmandel and bongos. George Harrison, MBE (25 February 1943 – 29 November 2001 was an English rock Guitarist Singer - Songwriter, Author Slide guitar or bottleneck guitar is a particular method or technique for playing the Guitar.
• Ringo Starr: drums and cymbals. Ringo Starr, MBE (born Richard Starkey on 7 July 1940 is an English Musician, Singer, Songwriter and Actor A drum kit (also drum set or trap set) is a collection of Drums Cymbals and sometimes other Percussion instruments such as cowbells Cymbals are a modern percussion instrument Cymbals consist of thin normally round plates of various Cymbal alloys; see Cymbal making for a discussion of their
• Mal Evans: tambourine. Malcolm 'Mal' Evans (27 May 1935 – 5 January 1976 is best known as the road manager, assistant and a friend of The Beatles. The tambourine or Marine is a Musical instrument of the percussion family consisting of a frame often of wood or plastic with pairs of small metal jingles
• George Martin: cellos and trumpets arranger, producer and mixer. Sir George Henry Martin CBE (3 January 1926 is a British record producer arranger and Composer. The violoncello (abbreviated to cello, or 'cello, plural cellos or celli —the c is tʃ In Music, an arrangement refers either to a rewriting of a piece of existing Music with additional new material or to a fleshing-out of a compositional sketch such In the Music industry, a record producer or music producer has many roles among them controlling the recording sessions coaching and guiding the musicians organizing
• Geoff Emerick: recording and mixing engineer. Geoffrey Emerick (born 1946 in London) is a recording studio Audio engineer, who is best known for his work with the Beatles ' albums Revolver An engineer is a person professionally engaged in a field of Engineering.

• Three cellos and four trumpets, played by session musicians (as indicated on the album article page). Session musicians are musicians available for hire as opposed to musicians who are either permanent members of a musical outfit or who have acquired fame in their own right
• Backward tapes(cymbals and melotron tracks played backwards and superimposed).

Release

The single was released on 13 February 1967, in Britain, and subsequently on 17 February 1967, in the United States, as one side of a double A-side single, paired with the McCartney composition "Penny Lane". Events 1258 - Baghdad falls to the Mongols, and the Abbasid Caliphate is destroyed Year 1967 ( MCMLXVII) was a Common year starting on Sunday (link will display full calendar of the 1967 Gregorian calendar. The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom, the UK or Britain,is a Sovereign state located Events 1500 - Battle of Hemmingstedt. 1600 - Philosopher Giordano Bruno is burned alive at Campo de' Fiori Year 1967 ( MCMLXVII) was a Common year starting on Sunday (link will display full calendar of the 1967 Gregorian calendar. The United States of America —commonly referred to as the A-side and B-side originally referred to the two sides of 7 inch Vinyl records on which singles were released beginning in the 1950s " Penny Lane " is a song by The Beatles, written by Paul McCartney, recorded during the Sgt When manager Brian Epstein pressed producer George Martin for a new Beatles single, Martin told Epstein that the group had recorded what were, in his opinion, their two finest songs to date ("Strawberry Fields Forever" and "Penny Lane"). NEMS Enterprises defaults here For the Latin American record label see NEMS Enterprises (label. Sir George Henry Martin CBE (3 January 1926 is a British record producer arranger and Composer. Epstein suggested that Martin issue the songs as a double A-sided single, as they had done with their previous single, "Yellow Submarine/Eleanor Rigby". Following UK protocol in the 1960s not to include songs released as a single within a new album, both songs were ultimately left off Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band. Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band is the eighth studio album by the British rock band The Beatles. George Martin later figured that this was a "dreadful mistake. "^[16]

The single reached #2 in the UK charts, behind Engelbert Humperdinck's "Release Me". Engelbert Humperdinck (born Arnold George Dorsey, May 2 1936, Madras India) is a well-known British - American "Penny Lane" reached #1 in the United States, while "Strawberry Fields Forever" peaked at #8. The fact that the single only reached number 2 in the UK charts has always been seen as a failure.

In the U. S. , both songs were included on the LP Magical Mystery Tour, which was released as a six-track double-EP in the UK. Magical Mystery Tour is the name of the 11-song Album and six-song Double EP by the English rock band The Beatles, first ^[17] When Magical Mystery Tour was re-released on CD, Parlophone chose the U. Parlophone is a Record label, founded in Germany in 1896 by the Carl Lindström Company. S. LP track listing rather than the UK double-EP. ^[17]

The song appears on the John Lennon Imagine soundtrack. Imagine John Lennon is a 1988 Documentary film about British Musician John Lennon.

In 2006, a newly mixed version of the song was included in the album Love. Love is a Grammy Award -winning Soundtrack Compilation album of music recorded by The Beatles, released in November 2006 This version builds from an acoustic demo and incorporates elements of "Hello, Goodbye", "Baby You're a Rich Man", "In My Life", "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band", "Penny Lane", and "Piggies"^[18]

Promotion and reception

The song reached number two on the British charts. A demo version or demo of a song (shortened from the word "demonstration" is one recorded for reference rather than for release " Hello Goodbye " is a song by the English rock band The Beatles. " Baby You're a Rich Man " is a song by The Beatles recorded on 11 May 1967 at Olympic Sound Studios, the first song by the band " In My Life " is a song by The Beatles written by John Lennon and Paul McCartney. " Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band " is a song credited to Lennon/McCartney, and first recorded and released in 1967 on the The Beatles ' " Penny Lane " is a song by The Beatles, written by Paul McCartney, recorded during the Sgt " Piggies " is a Beatles song from double-disc album The Beatles (also known as The White Album) The number one single at the time was Engelbert Humperdinck's "Release Me". Engelbert Humperdinck (born Arnold George Dorsey, May 2 1936, Madras India) is a well-known British - American (An interesting note is that until February 1969, there was no single definitive singles chart in the UK. The retroactive determination of "British chart history" flows smoothly from NME's 1950s chart through Record Retailer's expanded chart, which began in 1960, into the one compiled by the British Market Research Bureau that is used today. The New Musical Express (better known as the NME) is a Popular music Magazine in the United Kingdom which has been Record Retailer was a trade newspaper for the UK Record industry. "Strawberry Fields"/"Penny Lane" was ranked as a number one entry on Melody Maker's weekly singles chart. Melody Maker, published in the United Kingdom, was according to its publisher IPC Media, the world's oldest weekly Music Newspaper )^[19]

The promotional film for the song is now recognized as one of the first and most successful conceptual music videos, featuring reverse film effects, stop motion animation, disconcerting jump cuts from daytime to night-time and (among other things) the Beatles playing and subsequently pouring paint over and smashing an upright piano. A music video is a Short film or video that accompanies a complete piece of music most commonly a Song with lyrics Stop motion (or frame-by-frame) animation is an Animation technique to make a physically manipulated object appear to move on its own It also featured the use of jarring juxtaposition of setting with props - such as a table in the middle of an open field - often seen in more recent 'eccentric' music videos. It was filmed on 30 and 31 January 1967 in Knole Park in Sevenoaks, and directed by Peter Goldmann. Events 1648 - Eighty Years' War: The Treaty of Münster is signed ending the conflict between the Netherlands and Spain Events 1504 - France cedes Naples to Aragon. 1606 - Gunpowder Plot: Guy Fawkes Year 1967 ( MCMLXVII) was a Common year starting on Sunday (link will display full calendar of the 1967 Gregorian calendar. Knole is a Stately home situated close to Sevenoaks in north-west Kent, surrounded by a 1000 acre deer park Sevenoaks is a Commuter town in the Sevenoaks district of Kent in South East England and forms part of the London commuter belt. Goldmann was a friend of Klaus Voormann who recommended the Swedish TV director to the group. Klaus Voormann (born 29 April 1938) is a German Artist, Musician, and Record producer known for his long association with ^[20] The location of the filming is easy to find, as it is on one of the main roads through the park with a recognisable tree. Both videos were selected by New York's MoMA as two of the most influential music videos in the late 1960s; both were originally broadcast in the United States in early 1967 on the variety show Hollywood Palace, with Liberace as host. New York ( is a state in the Mid-Atlantic and Northeastern regions of the United States and is the nation's third most populous The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA is an art museum located in Midtown Manhattan in New York City, USA, on 53rd Street between Fifth Wladziu Valentino Liberace He had a twin who died at birth and he was born with a Caul, which in his family as in many societies was taken as a sign of genius and an exceptional

Brian Wilson claimed that "Strawberry Fields Forever" was partially responsible for the collapse of the Beach Boys' legendary unfinished album SMiLE. Brian Douglas Wilson (born June 20, 1942 in Hawthorne, California) is an American Musician best known as the lead The Beach Boys is an American rock band Formed in 1961 the group gained popularity for its close vocal harmonies and lyrics reflecting a California Youth culture Smile (sometimes typeset with the idiosyncratic partial capitalization SMiLE) is an unreleased album by the The Beach Boys, and perhaps the most Wilson first heard the song on his car radio while driving, and was so affected by it that he had to pull over until the song finished. He then remarked to his companion (either wryly or in despair, according to the version of the story) that the Beatles had "got there first" (i. e. , to the sound he was trying to achieve with the new album). SMiLE was shelved shortly afterwards. Smile (sometimes typeset with the idiosyncratic partial capitalization SMiLE) is an unreleased album by the The Beach Boys, and perhaps the most

Before playing the song on his radio show in January 2006, BBC Radio 2 DJ Mark Radcliffe said it could be described "without fear of contradiction as the greatest double-A side ever". Mark Radcliffe (born 29 June 1958) is an English broadcaster who has worked in various roles for the BBC since the 1980s and remains

Richie Unterberger of All Music Guide hailed it as "one of the Beatles' peak achievements and one of the finest Lennon- McCartney songs. Richie Unterberger (b 1962 is an American author and journalist whose focus is popular music and travel writing allmusic (previously All Music Guide) is a Metadata database about music owned by All Media Guide. "^[1] In 2004, this song was ranked number 76 on Rolling Stone magazine's list of the 500 greatest songs of all time. Rolling Stone is a United States -based Magazine devoted to Music, Politics, and Popular culture that is published ^[2] It was ranked the second best Beatles song by Mojo magazine, after A Day in the Life. Mojo is a popular Music Magazine published by Bauer, monthly in the United Kingdom. "A Day in the Life" is a song by the British rock band The Beatles, written by John Lennon with the middle eight by Paul McCartney ^[21] According to AcclaimedMusic.net (a site which combines hundreds of musicians' and critics' best-of lists from around the world), "Strawberry Fields Forever" is the Beatles' most critically acclaimed song of all time, ranking at #16 on the All Time Top 3000 Songs.

Notes

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External links

• Alan Pollack's notes on Strawberry Fields Forever