My post about
Strawberry Fields Forever earlier this morning reminds me of this, from when I was watching the
Get Back documentary
back in 2022:The paradox of Get Back is that as much as I love Let it Be, it's by far the simplest Beatles album musically, of course by design. So as much of a thrill as it is watching them create these songs throughout the documentary, how much would you love watching them discover and work through all the crazy shit they did on Revolver, or Sgt. Pepper? How much would you love to witness them recording Tomorrow Never Knows, or George Martin convincing Paul McCartney to add strings to Yesterday?
I mean, how off the charts incredible would it be if we had actual footage of Lennon introducing
Strawberry Fields Forever to the band in real time, as I wrote earlier from the Geoff Emerick book? Crazy. CRAZY!
PS - the picture below was supposedly taken as he was writing it, which I take to be about 95% plausible since it's obvious it's from when he was in Spain so
the time frame is correct:Lennon wrote the song in Almería, Spain in autumn 1966, while filming his role as Private Gripweed in the Richard Lester movie How I Won The War.
"Dick Lester offered me the part in this movie, which gave me time to think without going home. We were in Almería, 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."
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