The Surprisingly Interesting Story Behind Strawberry Fields Forever
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The Beatles’ 1967 hit “Strawberry Fields Forever” has long been considered one of the greatest pop songs ever recorded. Released in February of that year as a double A side single along with Penny Lane, the song peaked at number eight on the US Billboard charts (The Turtles’ “Happy Together” was number one that week). In 2011, Rolling Stone named it the band’s third greatest song and the 76th greatest song ever. Written by John Lennon, it’s a true masterpiece, but what it isn’t is a song about fields full of strawberries.
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John Lennon said to his Aunt Mimi "I want to go play in Strawberry Fields." His Aunt Mimi said "I don't want you going there to play with those orphans." John responded "What are they going to do, hang me for it?" Hence the line "Nothing to get hung about."
His aunt used to tell him “don’t climb the tree, you’ll get hanged!” And he responded with, “Nothing to get hung about!”
@@definetelykosakukawajiri8465 Not according to Lennon. He said it was a reference to the history of the ground the house stood on before it was built.
There are two sides to that song. The story of his childhood and the psychedelic perspective of reality itself. “Nothing is real, and nothing to get hung about”. If reality is just an illusion then there’s no need to fret over it. It’s part a trippy song, part historical.
Hmm.. no. Where did you get that??
@@horowizard From the Magical Mystery Tour bus guide in Liverpool.
Honestly I was expecting a 5 second video of Simon looking into the camera and saying, "Acid, lots of acid."
It's too expensive....
"Strawberry Fields Forever/Penny Lane" - the best pop art/psychedelic single ever recorded and the only Beatles single which didn't reach #1 on the charts.
Ironic indeed
Sorry, that's not remotely true. The Beatles had 17 #1's, but released 63 singles. Strawberry Fields made it to #2, but couldn't top Engelbert Humperdinck that week.
Penny Lane did reach the top of the charts in the US, though. If you stick to official EMI/Parlophone records, it's almost correct. "Love Me Do" and "Please Please Me" also failed. And "Come Together/Something". However, All except Strawberry Fields and Please Please Me made it to the top of the US charts.
and yet stood against the test of time💓💪💪💪
penny lane a number 1 in the us..
Perfect! I hope we see more 60s-70s legendary song explanations.
Why, hello Syd.
The story behind the Byrds’ “8 Miles High” would make a good vid.
===WHEN AND WHERE STARTED WRITING====
With nothing on The Beatles agenda for nearly three months, John was persuaded by director Richard Lester to appear in a movie entitled “How I Won The War,” filming commencing on September 6th, 1966
It was during this time that John began writing “Strawberry Fields Forever.”
“He used to sit cross-legged on the beach or on the bed,” Crawford continues, “the two places where one would see him with a guitar, and he would go, ‘Strawberry Fields Forever…well, I’m not sure,’ and I’d say, ‘Oh, it’s great, John. Really, it’s good. I wouldn’t mess with it!’ It just sounded so great, and he’s going, ‘I’m not sure…I’m not sure.’”
“We were in Almeria,” John himself explained in 1980, “and it took me six weeks to write the song. I was writing it all the time I was making the film. (And as anybody knows about film work, there’s a lot of hanging around.) I have an original tape of it somewhere - of how it sounded before it became the psychedelic sounding song it became on record.” An estimation of these “six weeks” indicates that “Strawberry Fields Forever” was mostly written between September 26th and November 6th, which was the final day of filming for the movie.
The above mentioned tape is a very interesting listen, showing the Genesis of the song as he was writing it. The only verse he had at first, which was repeated many times, consisted of the lyrics “There's no one 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." The tape then reveals that he obscured the thought slightly by changing “on my wavelength” to “in my tree.”
===WANTED TO CALL SONG A DIFF NAME===
It also appears from listening to this early demo that he may have intended the title of the song to be “It's Not Too Bad” (although this has never been verified). John then plays around with what eventually became the chorus, although “Strawberry Fields” was not mentioned. When the demo shows that he finally does incorporate “Strawberry Fields” into the lyrics, he adds the lyric “nothing to get mad about,” which
===SOME SOURCES , NOT LENNON!==== say refers to his Aunt Mimi getting upset about John playing in nearby Strawberry Fields as a child. John reportedly would reply to her, “They can't hang you for it.”
===ALLEDGEDLY!!==, remembering this inspired John to change the line to “nothing to get hung about.”
===HIS WORDS , QOUTE=====WHAT ITS ABOUT===
In 1970 he explained: “As an artist, I always, in the most real moments, try to express myself, and to show myself and not somebody else. If I knew myself less I could express it less, that’s all. In ‘Strawberry Fields’ I’m saying, ‘No, always think it’s me,’ and all that bit, and ‘Help!’ I was trying to describe myself, how I felt, but I wasn’t sure how I felt. So I’d be saying, ‘Sometimes, no always, think it’s real but…’ but I’m expressing it haltingly because I’m not sure what I’m feeling. But now I was sure: ‘Yeah, that was what I’m feeling - it hurts, that’s what it’s about.’ So then I could express myself.”
He continues, “’Strawberry Fields’ was psychoanalysis set to music, really. I think most analysis is just symptomatic, where you just talk about yourself. I don’t need to do that because I’ve done a lot of it with reporters. I never had time for psychiatrists and those people, because they’re all cracked
===HIS OWN WORDS , REAL PLACE JUST USED THE NAME=====
In 1980, he elaborated further: “’Strawberry Fields’ is a real place. It’s a nice name. After I stopped living at Penny Lane, I moved in with my aunt who lived in a nice semi-detached place with a small garden and doctors and lawyers, and all that, all living around. Not the poor, slummy kind of image that was projected in all The Beatles’ stories. Near that home was this Strawberry Fields, a house near a boy’s reformatory where I used to go with my friends Nigel (Whalley) and Pete (Shotton). 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. When I was writing ‘In My Life,’ I was trying ‘Penny Lane’ at that time. We were trying to write about Liverpool, and I just listed all the nice-sounding names, just arbitrarily. But, Strawberry Fields, I mean, I have visions of Strawberry Fields…Strawberry Fields is anywhere you want to go.
====ITS ABOUT ME
“It’s just about me really,” John continues, “or anybody else, who’s thinking like that. It’s pretty straightforward. It’s a bit of messing, let’s get away to Strawberry Fields. Certain parts of the song are fantastic to me, especially when you’re doing it, but then after that; you listen to it objectively. ‘Living is easy…misunderstanding all you see.’ It still goes, doesn’t it?
“The second verse goes, ‘No one I think is in my tree,’ well, I was too shy and too 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,’ the next line. It was scary as a child, because there was nobody to relate to. Neither my auntie nor my friends nor anybody could ever see what I did.
Even more succinctly, John stated during another interview: “So the line says, ‘No one I think is in my tree, I mean it must be high or low.’ What I’m saying, in my insecure way, is ‘Nobody seems to understand where I’m coming from
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I was in strawberry field yesterday and found it to be a really tranquil place, it's now a visitor centre and cafe/gift shop with gardens to walk around.the cafe is reasonably priced and well patronised, come to Liverpool it's the finest city on the face of the planet
We've been without John for nearly 40 years now, but his music is truly timeless.
I'm 42. Born in 79. And I was listening to the Beatles as a teen in the 90s alongside Marilyn Manson, Nirvana, Cypress hill and white Zombie. John and the Beatles will NEVER die.
And without Paul for 58😔
The host is a Brit. I wonder why he didn’t mention that in the UK the double A side stalled at number 2 behind Release Me by Engelbert Humperdinck.
I was in Liverpool a few weeks ago. The original gates are on display at The Beatles Story in Albert Dock, while Strawberry Field itself is now being redeveloped.
Very interesting, mostly Paul's reaction when he first heard it. Like how Paul helped John 'tidy up' one of John's songs from his first proper solo album ("Plastic Ono Band"), Paul really dug John's wild side, and was not really the 'cutesy commercial' one the media made him out to be. (Think of "Back In The USSR" and "Helter Skelter" -- both Paul songs.) From all the books I've read on The Beatles I don't think John ever saw Strawberry Field (the place) as "foreboding", but rather "magical", with maybe a hint of fear at being caught which makes all adventures truly magical. It also came at a time of over a year of regular LSD use by John, and for him it was NOT a Party drug, but a raising of his consciousness. Hence in "A Day In The Life" when he sings: "I'd love to turn, you, on..." he's NOT talking about sex -- he's wanting to wake us all up, as his early 1966 song "Tomorrow Never Knows" is also saying. (And there was "The Word" on Rubber Soul near the end of 1965, and even "There's A Place" on their very first album at the beginning of 1963.
100%.
I was just at the site this week - it’s restored, amazing now and full of life. John would be proud I think.
"No one I think is in my tree,
I mean, I must be high or low". Very telling. RIP, John.
I found out only today that you cant play this in A major OR Bb major. Its really in between. Hence, you cant tune in but its all right
No one is in my family tree. I must be my own family...That's what I think his metaphor met.
@@marie.theartist Could be.
It's now open to the public again with a new visitor centre which includes a cafe and museum. There is a nice garden too. The original gates have returned. Well worth a visit.
"Living is easy with eyes closed ... Misunderstanding all you see." - - Lennon (1967)
I visited the site in 1994 (on board a bus full of pensioners) with my friend. Aged 17 we jumped the (old original) gate, to the gasp of 30 elderly, just like our musical hero once did years before. I accidentally bumped the edge of my Minolta 35mm camera on the gate, and it had a Strawberry Field red painted dent on it ‘forever’ (until it got stole in Chicago a few years later) still have the photos and the memory of that and more Liverpool trips.
Thank-you, Matt Blitz, and the whole team that worked to put this together as an excellent presentation; facts that elicit strong emotions.
It’s finally open !!! And it is beautiful in every corners ! As a planned young adults with learning difficulties are working there ! Wonderful ! Ps. I been there today ♥️
I had no idea...thank you for such an informative video, Simon!!😊😊
Great explanation. Tight and lucid. Thank you!
I swear to God. Over the last few years of watching this channel and the others that Simon and his team run I feel like I have gained SO MUCH KNOWLEDGE! Is it useful... ? sometimes, but usually it just makes me better at having unique chats with people about things they didn't know.
Brand new videos every day of the week? That is amazing because you do such a professional job. Thank you.
Woolton isn't a town, it's a district in the city of Liverpool. My inlaws lived in Woolton, not far from George Harrison's parents. My sister in law walked to their house to ask for an autograph in her teens.
I'm not sure if the Mendips house was actually in Woolton or not. It's on a very busy road, and that is the road where John's mother was killed. He was waving her goodbye as it happened.
2 years ago we took the magical mystery tour bus in Liverpool as part of my 40th birthday celebrations. Our tour guide was Holly Johnson's younger brother. He had lots of inside knowledge.
Mendips is in Woolton - just - as the other side of Menlove Avenue is Allerton. It faces Allerton Golf Course as was.
@Kris Nicholson I grew up round there (Garston) and you are correct in that Allerton Gold Course is not quite opposite - but if we carry on like this we will be thought of as obsessives. Up until I left Liverpool in 1978 to go to University I never knew all of the sites of the Beatles Story except Strawberry Fields which I used to bike past to get to my mate's in Gateacre. I went to school with the son of the Rector of St Peter's Woolton not knowing its part of the Beatles Story. Liverpool collectively found tourism in the 1980s from which its does very nicely out of.
John was revealing what even today most can't see.. and fittingly it stands as an abandoned symbol of marginalized souls, that only John could see suffered in unloved silence.
as a currently unloved abandoned soul(no jynx! one day life will have been meaning again believe!) believe me It is all to *crystal clear*..
fortunately the silence of my heart's emptiness, is filled with music's love 🎶 .still poured right up to the top, and at times, is just *boiling over with sheer blistering ecstacy of empathic sonic bliss*, this lovely tune rubs just right.
source: fiancee walked out on me after entire family died. I mean, I can see why..sorry I was a moody strung out depressed slob
sweetie. pretty sure you knew when you moved in with me. Sorry we couldn't go to paris, i was gonna give this en You prob should have accounted for the fact I was depressed, considering I had been taking care of sole remaining relative for a decade, my terminally ill cancer patient mom wheelchair bound♿ in lingering pain. sorry I was sad honey! here's an idea! how's about you *hold it against me* ‽ real classy! goddamned selfish bitch.
John, ironically, abandoned his own son.
@@joan-lisa-smith I wouldn't say 'abandoned' is the right word. He like many men got a divorce after being both his wife and he became disillusioned with one another. Yoko Ono was actually right for him. The song 'Hey Jude' was written for his son in response to the marriage breakup.
Mh fave Beatle Song by miles! Every time it plays, I find myself actually listening to it, vocals, music, humorous poetry, etc.
Fantastic loved it. My favorite song beautifully done here thanks.
You have some really nice videos I love your relaxing voice
:47 that's Jimmy Nicol on drums filling in briefly for Ringo in '64 when the latter had tonsilitis. Funny that you picked this particular photo. Also interesting is the seated wax figure at the Grevin museum in Prague found at 3:43, then more wax figures at 5:43. Far out - and weird.
While I knew the song wasn't about "strawberry fields" I never knew exactly the whole story. Thank you for the education. 👍✌️
Wow thanks soooo much for this detailed history
I like the quicker 5 minute videos. Sharing this with my brother!
Excellent...but ..i did read one thing about strawberry field..according to mimi..john used to climb the trees outside the girls orphange and peep on them(for want of a better term)..and mimi used to tell him off for it and shout "if they catch you john doing that..there gonna hang you"..hence the line..."NOTHING TO GET HUNG ABOUT.STRAWBERRY FIELDS FOREVER"...mimi was asked in the early 70s..did you used to say that to john..her reply was...yes..on many occasions 😉
Chris Coleman - Nothing to get hung about refers to “getting hung”, a British euphemism for having sex.
Chris Coleman that's the version I heard Chris
It's hard to believe that wasn't an instant chart #1 in the UK. A double A-side of arguably 2 of the Beatles finest songs - one each and both uniquely different. And not available on the original LP. If they'd released them as 2 separate singles they should have both hit the top. Funny old game.
I remember in England Songs of Praise went there before it was torn down. I wonder if the programme still exists. Some of the teachers remembered John and said he played football and would always help out clearing chairs away after events.
The site is an audio visual display with beautiful cafe and staff now. Give yourself min 2hrs to listen and absorb. Welcome to Liverpool 🍓
I've seen it up close, and have brick #203 of 2,500 after it was taken down. A gift beyond words.
As a staunch Beatles fan, I thank you Simon for this video.
Love the show, and I love the Beatles. And I love you too Simon, for being the only youtuber that doesn't say "smash that like button"
If you watch his Business Blaze channel he actually tells people to press dislike 😁
He says that on another channel of his.
I wish a TH-camr would just say thanks 4 watching and leave it at that. Everyone knows the drill by now.
great video! more content along these lines would be more than welcome!
Thank you Simon..............
Thx. This whole time I thought Strawberry Fields alluded to San Francisco. SF was such a playground in those days. Love this song tho, reminds me of where I grew up.
Simon, I think this was the first video that I have ever seen you do that I thought was absolutely and entirely dull. Which is actually pretty good considering how many of your video's I've seen.
Great story. Thx.
one of my best song eve!!!
Always amusing when driving past that replica gate and there's a coach load of tourists taking photos. Same with the penny lane signs that keep getting stolen. Found out a lot more about the Beatles site since I met my partner who lived in woolton.
Cilla black was local to the area too I believe.
Cilla Black lived on the other side of Liverpool, a good 10 miles away. John lived in the leafy 'posh' suburb in the south end and Cilla was from the decidedly rough Scotland Road in the north end.
This was awesome. While I consider myself a fairly major Beatles fan, I must admit I knew literally none of the facts or circumstances outlined in this video. Great work!
@ ~ Eff me, right you are; edit-corrected.
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Take a listen to Something About the Beatles podcast!
Strawberry Fields is a great song.
On the site now is a shop and cafe called Strawberry Field I had a coffee and a meal there two weeks ago! Interestingly there are a few theories about the term nothing to get hung about came from! One is that John used to climb over the gates there and hanging was at the time still legal so his Aunt Mimi would warn John of it to put him off entering at least that's one version I've heard?
Even more telling, and fascinating, the Dakota building, where John lived in New York, is a virtual twin of the original Salvation Army orphanage in Strawberry Field. Did Lennon see it and subconsiously relatie it to his childhood refuge?
Good one. I like this song as a kid despite with preference to hip-hop back then.
I found out, too. Thanks
Thank you.
Have a good day TIFO !
Ringo was with John in Almeria, Spain when he wrote it.
Simon, I love you narratives, perfect diction and zero hyperbole, compared to the American commentary’s which are peppered with constant repetition, mispronunciations and over the top and incomprehensible jargon.
Simon you a pleasure to listen too.
I like these videos, but I'm left wanting more. There are some facts about the production process for this track that are well worthy of a video as well
Great visitor centre there now with some great info on Lennon.
Interestingly one of the young girls that was placed in the orphanage as a toddler, ‘Melvis White’ grew up to be a singer and had performance with the Beatles in the early years.
She was best pals with Paul’s ex girlfriend Iris, Rory Storms sister.
There’s some great video footage of her telling some old stories.
We’ll worth a visit to any Beatles fan, very relaxing and tranquil in the gardens. Helps youngsters with learning difficulties get into the workplace. Fortunately too, the real gates are in the gardens there, with the replicas hanging outside for the bus tourists.
Funny to see a Beatles photo with Jimmie Nicol on drums 0:48
Wow what a wonderful yet sad story......Amazing song.....Such a shame Strawberry field isn’t memorialised for the children of Liverpool today! ❤️
0:48 Shout out to Jimmy Nichols on the drums! (This picture was taken in Australia.)
Sorry, hearing about where I’ve lived for thirty years ‘Woolton’ is a bit funny. I walk to Strawberry Field most days
Robin Taberner lucky
@Kris Nicholson lmao damn.
That is unfortunate.
Kris Nicholson I’m not commenting as if I live a life of Beatles nostalgia. I said something because Strawberry Fields, Woolton, even Aunt Miami’s house are part of my daily life. It seems strange to me for them to be treated as some sort of shrines to someone and his music. It’s where I live. I will be driving into Woolton today to take my dog to the vet. It’s part of my ordinary life and it seems odd to see this video about a, yes derelict site. Have my local shopping area mentioned in revered tones. And a non descriptive semi detached house treated as some sort of monument.
Did I mention I mention I was driven up Penny Lane to school every day, as a child? 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
@Kris Nicholson You read like a "bad guy" character in one of their movies.
I'd have loved to tour the place when I was young. Now I'd sit somewhere and think "Gone, all gone", like I watched old people do when I was young. That's hardly the spirit of that age though, is it?
John Lennon preformed with Michael Crawford in How I Won The War. Michael Crawford played Lt. Goodbody. If he sounds familiar Michael Crawford was the FIRST Phantom of the Opera on the Stage.
I always thought it was a fantasy place of Lennon's, didn't know it was real till today o'clock.
love the new intro
Living is easy with eyes closed. That in itself is a masterpiece !
absolutely right
This song in my subconscious
My favourite and a day in the life. Xxx✌💙💜
I live smile away from strawberry fields. I love the history around here x
A mile not smile lol
😏 Had a dream about being in A strawberry field 🤐 Was an orphan myself so what an awesome story!
i when't to liverpool in 2000 and when't to Strawberry field, cause for me i had a place in my naborhood in texas with out the red gate had the same look and feel and was where my band of 3 took photos and in 2000 when to Strawberry field . glade i did more even know i know i stood at the real gates. and singing the song was how i got my 1st music manger. and start my new 20 years in music.
At time 0.46 you have a photo of Jimmie Nicol playing with The Beatles-not Ringo, which would make the The Beatles. How could you have possibly not noticed this?
And yet once again, Ringo is forgotten.
Who cares it’s ringo
I dig Richie Havens cover as well.
I used to walk past here everyday in my way to work which was on penny lane.
I live right by there
I think only A Day In The Life and Hey Jude are the two other Beatles songs that just exceed it in greatness.
Cool intro
Wow ,I'm india , kerala.nice video.thanks
The map shown at 5:43 shows "Strawberry Fields" (plural). So I guess both names were used. I knew John lived with his Aunt Mimi, but I had no idea she was such an authoritarian, or that she actually called Social Services on Julia, his mom.
I think you mean 2:40. Vid is 5:43 long.
John Lennon did see things in ways other people didn't see. That's what made him a genius, writing tracks like, Rain, She Said She Said, Tomorrow Never Knows, Strawberry Fields Forever, co-wrote A Day in the Life, I am the Walrus, Happiness is a warm gun, Come Together. All songs only Lennon could write. Syd Barrett saw things in a different way, but lost his mind, drugs and mental health issues. Arthur Lee from the band Love was another, Captain Beefheart is definitely in there, Trout Mask Replica, Lennon was a fan, obviously, of Beefheart, he loved his first album Safe as Milk. Also the man who produced Trout Mask Replica, Frank Zappa has a different way of looking at life.
Wasn’t sure if you all were aware you used a photo of the beatles w/out ringo as the drummer. Jimmy?? was a temporary drummer while ringo was in the hospital.
Lennon's "rosebud"
Kitana Kojima what's the rosebud thing about? I must know
Its from the movie Citizen Kane. I wont give away the ending.
@Davvy Jannes Ohh, gotcha. Thanks man.
@Davvy Jannes um, Kane is a movie, not a book!
@Davvy Jannes Never knew it was novelized?
That’s my favorite song
I heard this song for the first time when I was 25, I shit you not. Fucking blown away I was.
Aww, Strawberry Fields, would that some Beatles admirers would tend your ruin & bring you back blossoming!🐦
Lennon told Martin that he liked both the "original, lighter" take 7 and "the intense, scored version" from take 26, and wanted to combine the two. Martin had to tell Lennon that the orchestral score was at a faster tempo and in a higher key (B major) than the earlier recording (A major). Lennon assured him: "You can fix it, George." Martin and Emerick carried out the difficult task of joining takes 7 and 26 together. With only a pair of editing scissors, two tape machines and a vari-speed control, Emerick compensated for the differences in key and speed by increasing the speed of the first version and decreasing the speed of the second. He then spliced the versions, starting the orchestral score in the middle of the second chorus. Since take 7 did not include a chorus after the first verse, he also spliced in the first seven words of the second chorus from that take. The pitch-shifting in joining the versions gave Lennon's lead vocal an otherworldly, "swimming" quality.
It happens about 1 minute in th-cam.com/video/HtUH9z_Oey8/w-d-xo.html
thats just phasing wiki is shit go watch the studio sessions and stuff they wicked . e.g The band's promotional film clip for the track, featuring experimental techniques such as reverse effects, stop motion animation, jump-cuts and superimposition, incorporates reverse-recorded instrumentation, tape loops and a fade-out/fade-in coda. The finished recording also includes Mellotron flute sounds, a cello and brass arrangement by producer George Martin, and an Indian swarmandal.
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What is also interesting is this is William Shears' early foray into playing the Paul character of the Beatles post-66.
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YAWN…zzz. Why don’t you just shut up. You’re such a bore.
@@MsAppassionata 😎👍
Strawberries are a common acid tab design with a field being a term for a full sheet.
If it does ever get turned into a school for children with learning differences then that would be rather fitting I think since there is a very good chance that Lennon was Aspergers/High Functioning Autistic
David Jensen What are the indications for that?
@@adolphhitler9128 inability to make friends, hyper focused, inappropriate behavior at social situations (ie the joke about the Beatles being bigger than Jesus), not understanding social situations (again the joke being made about Beatles being bigger than Jesus and not understanding why everyone was offended by it),
@@daRiddler32 bullshit. revisionist nonsense.
@@mj.l no. Look at the man's personal life and his history. Like Einstein before him he exhibited A LOT of the traits of someone who has Asperger's/High Functioning Autism.
Despite what the idiots online will say that isn't a bad thing. It would mean that he was exceptionally brilliant but had very poor social skills and understanding (think Data, Spock, Dr. House, or Sheldon Cooper)
@@daRiddler32 I agree with you. The fact that he thought it was ok to make fun of the disabled fans at his shows, the fact that he often appeared to not make eye contact with interviewers. These are both strong indicators that he was on the spectrum. The man was brilliant, it doesn't have to do with I.Q. This May even show why he preferred Yoko to Cynthia.
Woolton is not a town, it is a district of Liverpool.
Interesting
I just did (15/12/2019) a google maps street view of Strawberry Field and at the time of the Google view, it was a construction site with the name of the construction company displayed on the hoardings.
I looked up the construction company's website and according to their current projects, they are building a training centre for the Sally Army, which is due for completion in February 2019.
Does anyone know if they’ve covered the Beatles rooftop show, yet? I’ve always loved that story!
🍓feilds forever❤
2:46 Ahh great! trust Antonio to have got there first with slick lass with a stick of Yardley’s Lip Slickers pink. . . such a showoff.
Not my favourite Beatles tune, that would be Octopuses Garden, but still a pretty fascinating little bit of information right here.
Aunt Mimi did NOT rule John "with an iron fist", she was just a good old fashioned carer/parent putting limits on unruly children as all our parents were back then. Julia was this slightly-crazy Bohemian woman who even admitted that her sister could look after John much better than she could.
Lennon's childhood wasn't easy: his father played the banjo.
Been there and penny lane
Please do more Beatles/John lennon related episodes!
No please don't. While I respect the influence they had I find them overrated, give me Hendrix, Bob Dylan, pink Floyd, the Kinks, or led zeppelin over the beatles any day (im just sticking to that tine frame as its only fair-id rather hear about many newer bands)
@brian george care to finish that sentence?
@brian george fair enough but that's why I made a point of saying I personally find them overrated yet I understand their influence-but thats the beauty of music I think, everyone finds their own likes and dislikes and (hopefully/usually) respects others likes and dislikes
@brian george well im 35 so I'm not sure if you class that as old or not but I agree, it doesn't mean that music newer than the 60s or 70s isn't good though-sonic youth for example is excellent in my opinion, same with Skint, Mogwai and Tortoise-all excellent post-rock bands. I could go on but I know ill quickly become boring lol all im saying is to me personally (since music is a personal experience) I find The Beatals overrated that's all. I'd rather listen to The Doors than The Beatles, but that's the beauty of music-there is something for everyone
@brian george haha sorry but i find it funny in the best possible way that we are talking about music and age nearly exactly half the age of each other lol anyway I've never heard of Pentatonix but ill certainly check them out. See this is why love music-its possible to not enjoy a lot of someone's music library yet still find a gem in there
Strawberry field the Liverpool council has just announced its to be renovated it's been on the local news ! I'll keep you updated as it's definitely going to happen when I don't know
Hilarious to quote Lennon using a posh upper class accent!
It's not abandoned. I was there two months ago. The development is well underway.
Wow, that explains a lot. I was taken from an Ireland Mothers and Babies home at 4 weeks old and went to Liverpool Orphanage in George street, I was Fostered out, but my Foster died when I was 5 years old, in 1963. U was back in Liverpool Orphanage. I was kicking my football outside the front of the Orphanage one day, and these 4 blokes came along, took my ball and were playing around. After a while, they gave it back to me, and asked, do you know who we are. I said yeah, seen you on tv. So this guy bloke says I'm Paul, that's John, he's George and that there is Ringo who has just joined us. John asked, what's your name? I said Jimmy, it is James really. See ya Jimmy, they walked off. A couple of weeks later John came back to the Orphanage, and he asked for me. I went outside, and it was bloody cold. So John said I have a present for you. He gives a Matchbox toy, a black American Police car. I think it was a Pontiac. So I thank him, and we sit on the curb talking. He was asking lots of questions, and then he had to go. I'll come back Jimmy, promise I will. Aye, John came back to see me but I was fostered out again to a rotten family in London. I was hoping that John wanted to Foster me, it dreamt about living with John for years, that he would find me, take me away from the beatings I got. I have only recently started telling my story as people think you're weird, or a liar. I did tell Theresa McCartney, Paul sister when I sent her a friend request. Don't know if she asked Paul or not.