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It wasn't the craziest edit back in the 70's because it was actually 1967 😊
"Life is easy with eyes closed, misunderstanding all you see." People think John talks in gibberish, but this line couldn't be more clear
Living is easy.
Meditação transcendental
This is the most un-gibberish line in the whole song. John knew how to captivate people through speech and song
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@@joaovitorazevedo7486 Not here. It overlaps with Nowhere Man. Recalling his time as a child playing in the nearby Salvation Army children's home grounds. More about the eternal sunshine of the empty mind recalling childhood bliss, eg before his mother was killed not very long after reconnecting with him as a teenager. Ignorance is bliss. Don't worry about what's going on.
So many comments on video clips of old time TV shows of British countryside talk about happier times... because commentator was a child when programme aired and was shielded from cold war, heavy racism, corrupt London police, bashing homosexuals and people from Indian subcontinent, student unrest, Vietnam, lung disease from mining, dangers of construction sites, etc. The song was part of the Sgt Pepper project but released as a single before the LP was finished. It bookends with A Day In The Life as the character is now reading the papers but skims what matters and notices on the death of a rich young acquaintance and potholes in Blackburn. It was released as double A-side with Penny Lane, also about a real place in Liverpool remembered from childhood by McCartney which maps to the McCartney section of ADITL
For many people, this is the best Beatles song, which means it's the best of the best. I would never disagree with this.
One of the two greatest recordings in history. The other is the single "Please Please Me".
Because...... here comes the sun?
For me its between A Day in the Life, I Want You and this one
@@alrivers2297 Listen to "Because".
@jnagarya519 Lol, I have many many times. It's great
John Lennon had something of a tough childhood. His aunt legally took custody of him from his mother and he had an absentee father who was a merchant seaman. The song is about his childhood anxiety and thoughts viewed through a dream. Strawberry Field, a Salvation Army Orphanage near his aunts home, had a large wooded garden behind the home. Lennon would climb the wall and sometimes play in the woods with friends, or just go to sit and think. It was something of a retreat or sanctuary for him.
Beautiful Thank YOU!
Don’t forget that John was also illegitimate in an era where the child was looked down upon because of it. People born after the 1960s might find it difficult to understand, but if a girl got pregnant and wasn’t married, she was forced to quit school. Parents often wouldn’t let their children play with or associate with illegitimate children. I think that those of us who were part of that generation greatly resented how hypocritical our parents’ age groups could be and wanted things to change. Don’t underestimate how devastating illegitimacy could be to both the mother and child though, and that was probably a huge factor in John’s psyche.
@@macgrad1 Actually, John's parents, Julia and Alfred *were* married at the time of his birth (they married in 1938 and John was born in 1940). But it was wartime and Alfred was away at sea, and Julia soon took up with other men, and had more children with them. She was never officially divorced from John's father. Mimi thoroughly disapproved of the situation, and was kind enough to take John in and gave him the best upbringing she could, with her husband George playing the surrogate father role in John's life, until he died suddenly, right in front of John. A few years later his mother also died suddenly, on her way between her and Mimi's houses. It was a very complicated and emotionally traumatic childhood and teenage time for John; this really only skims the surface.. Mark Lewisohn goes into a lot of the detail in his book.
@@papercup2517 , sorry I saw another article that said he was illegitimate. My bad. Thanks for correcting me.
@@macgrad1 No problem...
The Beatles didn't shy away from surreal lyrics and experimental music.
John's lyrics & voice
Don't overlook how great Ringo's drumming is in this song, and the genius of George Martin in the orchestral score/use in this song.
And George Harrison's perfect lead guitar licks
Honestly, I think this is the song where the whole band came together in perfect harmony. Which is funny considering the song is so difficult to pin down harmonically. But yeah, Paul with the classic mellotron intro, Ringo with the absolutely perfect drumming, George’s perfect licks, George Martin’s off the charts arrangement and John with what is arguably his masterpiece as a songwriter, both melodically and lyrically. It was the perfect storm.
Strawberry Field was the name of a Salvation Army children's home close to John Lennon's childhood home in Woolton, a suburb of Liverpool. Lennon and his friends used to play in the wooded garden behind the home. One of Lennon's childhood treats was the garden party held each summer in Calderstones Park, near the home, where a Salvation Army brass band played. Lennon's aunt Mimi Smith recalled: "There was something about the place that always fascinated John. He could see it from his window … He used to hear the Salvation Army band [playing at the garden party], and he would pull me along, saying, 'Hurry up, Mimi - we're going to be late.
Previously: Rolling Stone placed "Strawberry Fields Forever" at number 3 on its list of the "100 Greatest Beatles Songs"
Just one thing. In those days nobody did make films of their songs. These four guys were really pioneers of what we all know now as video-clips.
Probably more accurate to say that few artists made promotional films for their songs. The Beatles weren’t the only ones nor were they the first. Herb Alpert is probably more of a pioneer in that area.
There were movie clips in the 1940s. And the 50s. This is not new. Just more popular because it's The BEATLES
@@netzahuacoyotl Would you please send a link? I’d love to watch some examples
@@jimfritz2087 Would you please send a link? I’d love to watch some examples
more accurately it was Epstein who moulded the beatles and sold them to the world.
John Lennon based the song on his childhood memories of playing in the garden of Strawberry Field, a Salvation Army children's home in Liverpool. A really trippy song, some of it was filmed and then played backwards which is why some of their movements are so odd. It reminds me of being a teenager more than any other Beatles song. My favourite Beatles LP is 'Rubber Soul'.
Exactly what I was going to say.
Well put, its also just a few minutes Away from where John lived on menlove Ave, i often pass there in my van.
This and Penny Lane were both songs that are on the surface about childhood memories of where Paul and John lived in Liverpool. Penny Lane, primarily written by Paul reflects his personality and is more lighthearted. Strawberry Fields was written mostly by John and therefore is more brooding and introspective. Strawberry Fields is the place John played. The tree is an actual tree John played in that involves his mother Julia and Aunt Mimi. Every reference is concrete and personal but John’s genius is that the lyrics and music are also ambiguous and universal hinting at hidden meanings that make the song mysterious.
Beautiful Thank YOU!
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I've never tried to understand the lyrics, I've always just enjoyed the experience of listening to this wonderful song. One of their best. Revolver is my favorite album, Tomorrow Never Knows is my favorite song from it, it's the trippiest Beatles song ever!
When I was visiting New York my son and I went to the area of Central Park which is called Strawberry Fields. There is also a large mosaic there with the word IMAGINE on it. I was surprised how moved I was just being there. It brought unexpected tears to my eyes. It’s impressive.
John wrote I Am the Walrus for everyone trying to always decipher his lyrics. He said 'let the fu*ker figure this out' as a response to some teacher who'd been dissecting their lyrics. An exact quote about the song came in an interview in 1969: “’Walrus’ is just saying a dream - the words don’t mean a lot. People draw so many conclusions and it’s ridiculous.”adding in 1980: “I’ve had tongue in cheek all along - all of them had tongue in cheek. Just because other people see depths of whatever in it…What does it really mean, ‘I am the eggman’? It could have been ‘the pudding basin,’ for all I care. It’s not that serious.”
I was 12 in '68....I knew the words but didn't go deep what they meant. Used to laugh at"you say hi, I say hello, "etc.
They had some amusing lyrics!@@TLL999
I think it was even more pointed than that. A teacher who taught John but who had not got on with John had started analysing Beatles lyrics in class. He wasn't the only one. Other teachers wanted to appear 'with it' by doing so but Lennon was annoyed by his ex-teacher doing it after disparaging John when he was a pupil at the school
Ah, yes, I remember that detail now! Thanks for the memory jog :) @@cuebj
They were wizzards and warlocks.....just magic musicians
What I don't understand is the Mayonnaise jar perched on the sofa. That's real confusing.
Is just his trademark
Ikr - mayonnaise guy trying to understand the Beatles
Eleanor Rigby
Talking about the illusion of the universe
This is a stream of consciousness about the underdog, the confused, the disadvantaged, the put-upon of this world, Strawberry Fields was a children's home in Liverpool run by a charity; a well-meaning but dark place for waifs and strays, abandoned children. If you listen to the lyrics in that light, the stuttering, the doubt, the uncertainty... it all makes sense. And it seems those emotions touch the lives of everyone who listens to this great song.
'Lennon said the song reflected how he had felt "different all my life"; he called it "psychoanalysis set to music" and one of his most honest songs. In McCartney's view, the lyrics reflect Lennon's admiration of the nineteenth-century English writer Lewis Carroll, particularly his poem "Jabberwocky".' Strawberry Field was in reference to a garden behind the children's home where John and his friends often played
"She Loves You" was from 1963 when they were doing pop/rock songs for teenage girls. They became uber famous and evolved with the changing times of the 60s. You can't compare these two eras of their music. This is from 1967 when psychedelic music was big. Some of the scenes are edited backwards on purpose. Strawberry Fields is a Salvation Army childrens home. It was close to where John grew up in Liverpool. Paul did "Penny Lane" about a particular street in Liverpool. The songs were released as singles together. Ive seen you have done many Beatles reactions but don't know any more about them than your first reaction. They are a great band to study up on.
Perhaps laziness, or a charade pretending to be ignorant, or an illustration of the postmodern world without context in which ignorance is shared and, even, applauded.
The massive sales from their earlier records which subsided EMI's serious classical and jazz businesses gave them the power to do whatever they wanted in later years. No pop... no style. And, before becoming the world's greatest boy band (a term that didn't exist back then) who wrote, played, sang, arranged their own material, they had been the toughest, hardest punky grungy garage band from their late teens slumming it while doing 8-hour all-night sets in red light scummiest, gangster Indra and Kaiserkeller clubs in post-war German port city of Hamburg
This video was ahead of its time (well it is The Beatles) and it tends to draw focus and sometimes the actual recording gets overlooked. This is a masterpiece. As a kid, John used to play in the garden of Strawberry Field, an orphanage and the song is mostly a reflection of his childhood. Yeah there are some abstract lines like. 'No-one else is in my tree, I mean it must be high or low' - John felt his mind worked differently and wondered if he was a genius or insane.
This song was so unlike anything before it. As a huge Beatles fan (and a teen) at the time, on first hearing I thought Lennon just may have gone insane. (local radio kept playing Penny Lane because they too didn't get this song, until I rang them and hassled them to play it). It is my favourite Beatles track
The music of The Beatles was so expansive when it came to lyrics that really made you think. Strawberry Fields Forever's psychedelia is a perfect example. Also you should react to, if you haven't already, I Am The Walrus, which is another example.
If push comes to shove, this is my favorite song by anybody in any genre, ever. I know that's saying a mouthful, but it's true. Released in 1967, it's sort of an aural version of an acid trip, with the name being derived, as others have said, from a Liverpool children's home called Strawberry Field. This period was a great one for Lennon as a songwriter.
John didn't say it was about an acid trip though.
'Lennon said the song reflected how he had felt "different all my life"; he called it "psychoanalysis set to music" and one of his most honest songs. In McCartney's view, the lyrics reflect Lennon's admiration of the nineteenth-century English writer Lewis Carroll, particularly his poem "Jabberwocky".
Except not an acid trip. Strongly rooted in childhood experience, as you mention, and his perpetual reading of Lewis Carroll's stories and poems: Alice In Wonderland, Alice Through The Looking Glass, Hunting of The Snark...
probably my favourite Beatles song
Drug& culture, rebellion, peace, love, standards " we got something to say as the young generation
Those drum licks. Those damn guitar bits.
Lennon wrote this tune about a real place in his childhood, and the lyrics are quite straightforward. Take them literally.
It was shot at dusk
They speak the truth though. Nothing we worry about really matters in the end…and in the end, we are here to experience, and hopefully have nothing to get hung about… ☮️
John used to climb over the wall of Strawberry Field, a charity home for children, where there are large grounds and many trees. He would climb a tree and sit there thinking, dreaming and watching the activities of the home. Strawberry Field still exists in Liverpool today and Beatles fans from all over the world visit it. John considered this song to be one of his favourites.
Just listening to Ringo's shuffle. Bloody hell.
One of if not THE best songs from john
I believe it's called psychodelia babble but I love it!
It doesn't sound like babble to me
"Strawberry Fields" is a place in Liverpool -- do a Goggle search and you'll find it.
The video doesn't necessarily have anything to do with the song. John was an artist who attended art school. And while in Hamburg they hung out with college kids who were into existentialism, DADA -- "found art" -- and surrealism.
Again, Ringo's drumming.
I only recently learned that the "nothing to get hung about" line came from an interaction he had with his aunt. She was telling him not to play at the Salvation Army place, to which he replied, "They can't hang you for it."
I like watching these reaction videos for the music videos. because 55 years ago, we didn't have video. Just radio (am at that) and records.
No that's not what he said, living is easy with eyes closed misunderstanding all you see.
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Strawberry Fields is an actual place in Liverpool. John played there as a kid,even though it wasn't allowed. He said they can't hang you for it, hence the line in the song nothing to get hung about.Ive been there very near Penny Lane the other side of the record, double A.
we visited liverpool and saw strawberryfields once a private garden near where john lennon lived a magical visit!
This is considered the first music video.
Help! was the first Beatles' music video, though.
That was made way before the 70s. And I think that was the first music video.
The first Beatles music video was Help! but this wasn't too far behind. :)
Actually, there were videos featuring Rock n Roll artists all the way back in the 1950’s, but they were usually as part of a movie.
@@lauraallen55 What about I Feel Fine which predates Help
There were tons of music videos before this. Look up Scopitones. It was a jukebox with 16mm films made to promote singles, dating back to 1959.
@@nudnick You could also add the R&B shorts from the 40s and 50s shown in movie theatres and jukeboxes in black neighborhoods.
Michael, Listen again to Ringo Starr's drumming. It's absolutely amazing.
Strawberry Field is a Salvation Army kid's home. John used to jump over the wall and hang out there as a kid. this is 1967, not the 70's
Probably they enjoyed the idea to film this during the night because of the colored psychedelic lights they wanted to use on them
Nobody can tell you what this song means but you will find what it means to you.
Strawberry Fields was a Liverpool park, that John Lennon used to play in, as a child.
You have to look up the story of this song. Early psychedelia
Is there another story besides the one the songwriter told about it?
'Lennon said the song reflected how he had felt "different all my life"; he called it "psychoanalysis set to music" and one of his most honest songs. In McCartney's view, the lyrics reflect Lennon's admiration of the nineteenth-century English writer Lewis Carroll, particularly his poem "Jabberwocky".
More beatles pls
Strawberry Fields was an orphanage near where John grew up
Songs don't always have to have a meaning. John in particular felt the music more important than the lyrics, particularly earlier in his career.
Strawberry Fields was an orphanage where Lennon would play as a boy. Large grounds, lotta trees.
It was a garden behind the children's home he and his friends played at often.
@lauraallen55 well, it was the grounds of an orphanage, not really a garden.
According to what I've read it was a garden behind the children's home, and a large wooded area beyond that.@@garylee3685
Strawberry Feilds was an orphanage near where John grew up in Liverpoole
1968. Strawberry fields actual place in england
John was a big fan of Dylan & loved his abstract lyrics, he was taking a lot of LSD at the time, he started thinking of his music as art.. as David Bowie said John could would come up with the wackiest insane ideas in songs & make them work. Abstract art, poetry, lyrical imagery.. John said what ever it means to you is what it’s about.. 😵💫
John was a genius artist, he painted mysterious scenery to confound our simple minds. Intended confusion for all to ponder forever. Bravo Johnny. Gibberish mixed with truthful statements.
I don’t think they were “going off into the sunset” Michael. Maybe toward the sunrise. 🤗
imo one of the best beatles songs (i like tomorrow never knows better though )
This is the first actual music video. Not just a clip from a film or a tv show, an actual video.
No, Help! was the Beatles' first music video. :)
@@lauraallen55 Help! was an entire movie, not a music video. Like A Hard Day's Night and Yellow Submarine. The clips you find on UA-cam from these movies are not actual videos that were specifically made to show on their own as just 1 song. They are cuts from a film. But this was intended as a music video, because they had stopped performing live at that time, and they wouldn't do thd Ed Sullivan show and the like anymore.
Help! was made as a music video. Look it up.@@DrStrangelove3891
@@DrStrangelove3891 Help also had a promotional film-features them sitting on a long bench with Ringo holding an umbrella. However, I believe the promotional video was for I Feel Fine where Ringo is on an exercise bike.
It means mayonnaise. 😎
😄😆🤣
One of the songs in the drug Era..... imagine tripping with the music and insinuations...
I love the ambiguity of the words. Lennon admired the indirectness of Bob Dylan's lyrics and emulated him. You never hear this song and think "OK, got it".
That's why it doesn't get old for me. Oh, and also the incredible music!
I believe this to be the first music video.
You're obviously not a Beatles fan but we still appreciate your reaction to the Fab 4 👍! Want to get more confused 😇? Try listening to * I'm The Walrus *, T N K ( Tomorrow Never Knows ) and maybe Lucy in The Skies With Diamonds 😇! Keep up the good work! Thank you.
*Sky, not skies.
If you think this song is weird, try I Am The Walrus.
You should check the cover version by Candy Flip from 1990.
It just came out of nowhere and shot up to Number 3 in the UK Chart.
I thought strawberry fields was referring to the blood shed in Vietnam
You thought that was confusing? Try "I am the Walrus".
G'day, mate. How's the mayo?
As to the video, I think a previous person supplied the necessary knowledge.
I think John wrote this in a very reflective mood while shooting the film How I Won the War in Spain.
There is a great film based upon this, which name thereof I cannot quite recall.
There's a film based on Strawberry Fields?
How can you be as old as you are and not heard this song?
"I buried Paul"
Cranberry sauce.
"Stig has been dead for ages honestly"
He didn't say that.
@@lauraallen55 Oh yes it said that.
ffs it did not. Look it up before running your mouth maybe. lol!@@MrYendor65
Mayonnaise man (lol), what a great psychedelic song by the Beatles.
That tree sadly was brought down by a storm in the eighties. Just the stump remains of it now.
Don’t try to go all Charles Manson on us trying to interpret the lyrics. By the way, that piano they were ruining with paint was bought by George Michael for $3.1 million in 2000.
Strawberry Fields was where John Lennon would play as a kid apparently.
Paul’s sheepdog Martha is in the video at the end.
Strawberry Fields was a popular brand of LSD
It is about his childhood hangout. Sometimes people made up meanings of Beatles songs that never existed. There is a song about absolutely nothing, I Am The Walrus, which Lennon wrote because he heard professors were dissecting his lyrics. So he made one so abstract that it blew their minds. They analyzed it, like you, based on nothing. Google the meaning of it. Learn about the Beatles. They are worth it.
Strawberry Fields is a place in Liverpool that has something to do with kids.
Strawberry Field refers to a garden behind a children's home near where John lived and he played there often.
It's a acid trip.
No.
'Lennon said the song reflected how he had felt "different all my life"; he called it "psychoanalysis set to music" and one of his most honest songs. In McCartney's view, the lyrics reflect Lennon's admiration of the nineteenth-century English writer Lewis Carroll, particularly his poem "Jabberwocky".
I urge you to check out the strangest Beatle track of them all, Revolution #9. No reactors will touch it. I hope you will. Love it or hate it, you’ll see see how experimental The Beatles were.
There's another strange track that the Beatles (John lennon-George Harrison) recorded that was just as bizarre-What A Shame Maryjane Had A Pain At the Party-an unreleased track-one can understand why.
What’s the New Mary Jane was finally released on Anthology 3.
This was the first time the public got to see the Beatles NOT as four like-suited moptops!
My favorite is what is referred to as 'The White Album' because of the number of songs, the sheer amazing diversity, and the way the mood seems to get darker as it progresses.
However, the best would be 'Revolver', IMO, followed by 'Abbey Road'. It's very arguable.
You talked over the most important part of the song. There was a rumor that Paul was dead because he hadn't been seen or heard from publicly for some time. At about the 5:00 mark in the video, just as Ringo is bending down you can hear John faintly say what some believed to be, "I buried Paul". This fueled the belief that Paul was dead. What John actually said was, "I'm very bored".
Actually...
'Part of the “Paul is dead” saga is a familiar claim that John sings “I buried Paul” at the end of Strawberry Fields. Careful attention, confirmed directly by John, shows that John said Cranberry Sauce twice, after which he says, “Calm Down, Ringo,” which brings an end to the recording.'
It was so nice back in the 70s when you didn't have the video to distract you from the music.
Thanks Michael, been waiting for this one!
You're right, a lot of subliminal messages in their music, I can't figure it out...I just enjoy the songs.
I live in Central Florida where Strawberries are a BIG DEAL!
Many fields are planted with them & they are my wife's favorite.
John & Paul are & were the best song writers, in my opinion, to have contributed to the music industry!👍💯😎
Paul wasnt real notice where song started off the grave yard
The videos are interesting - personally tho I’d much prefer first listening to the audio version only to let YOUR mind listen.
I want that mayo!! Can I please have it?? That's a lot of mayo!! Look at how BIG it is!! 😮
Being fellow scousers, they included many parts of Liverpool in songs, some obvious, like Penny Lane, where we'd go to the chippy at midday from school, to West Derby even...
Never mentioned the Pier Head....
Check out "Come Together" - it will also freak you out. And "A Day In The Life."
Strawberry fields is an old age home in their neighborhood and they liked the name. Very Old Beatle fan here :)
Children's home
Salvation Army children's home.
The Rutles version was W. C Fields forever 😅
It’s not a George’s level but it’s ok.
JK it’s a masterpiece
According to my cousin, that tree is still there.
Someone else said the tree was destroyed by a storm in the 80s....
@@lauraallen55 Curious.
A day in the life
Favorite Beatles album? Revolver
I see they have Hellmans Mayonnaise in your country too
Ohh it's lysergic acid stuff. It's incredible.
In my neck of the woods, strawberry field was a type of mescaline psychedelic drug. The Beatles had their experimentation with drugs in them days.
In John's neck of the woods, Strawberry Fields was a children's home near where he lived, and he played in the garden behind it with his friends.
I’m sure that the drug name probably came about as a result of the song.
I'm not sure of it. No way to know that for sure. But, I'm sure it's possible. :)@@MsAppassionata
Probably done in the middle of the night so they didn’t get swarmed
Everything these guys touched became magic....how they pulled that off other than raw talent. .... i dunno.
my favorite album is Abbey Road, you should totally check out the abbey road medley 🫶