Fact #153926
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Short story:
The Beatles release a new single, Penny Lane/Strawberry Fields Forever, in the UK.
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Paul Weller : It really caught my imagination - it's a very colourful record. I just thought the sound on it was fantastic and I couldn't understand how people had created this sound, and that kind of intrigued me. It does the same thing for me, no matter how many times I hear it.
Richie Havens : Strawberry Fields Forever was a song that was the ideal imagery for this Utopian place where we could all escape to and get out of the mess that the world was in. It was like a movie on a record, a fantasy that we could actually visit through music. So, in effect, it was a fantasy world we could escape to, to get out of what we were into.
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Richie Havens : Strawberry Fields Forever was a song that was the ideal imagery for this Utopian place where we could all escape to and get out of the mess that the world was in. It was like a movie on a record, a fantasy that we could actually visit through music. So, in effect, it was a fantasy world we could escape to, to get out of what we were into.