Brilliant, Just Brilliant! Thanks so much for the video. I enjoy listening to music on uTube, but this is The BEST video created I have seen. Extremely informative. I thoroughly enjoyed it.
this song reminds me of my girlfriends and me taking downers for the 1st time, lol... a LONG time ago... of course, our boyfriends gave them to us, Seconal, red pills, like little strawberries, every time i here this song, i remember how much fun we had that day, about 40 years ago.....
I don't understand the ending. What about that part caused "the hairs to stand up on the necks of G. Martin and G. Emerick"? Was it just because it was a good recording or what?
@Gyphia He contradicted himself in stating his own tastes, and i pointed that out. and i guess you are someone to accurately point out that my comments show feelings of being "uptight" and "upset." you can clearly see how enraged i sound in my posts...if i were one to talk, i'd say the elementary spelling errors you committed in your haste to complete your comment, as well as the use of a curse, indicate the anger and uptightness you accuse me of............btw, it's spelled "hypocrite."
Love the Beatles and thankful people like you have that otherwise not widely known info to share. Thanks for the great work. This is definately one to keep.
they captured a magic and a spirit of the supernatural , that has rarely been rivaled by anyone else, cept Zeppelin , but even they tried to mimic them in some ways, but had their own real spirit also, dont bicker about politics and goings on within their recordings people, just enjoy them, that's what George and John would like.
In regard to the 'Cranberry Sauce' comment (not about the song but of the (Thanks Giving comment) I think that might be stretching a point,'Thanks Giving' is not something taked about in the UK per say. I think you may have been 'matching' the comment with the incident rather than 'Cranberry Sauce' comment in isolation.
No Beatles writer has referred to it that I have read, if so please let me know l would be glad to see it!!
@Beatgeneration2010 I'm starting to get tired of people arguing this point. The Beatles writer who wrote about it was Geoff Emerick, who was assistant engineer and then full engineer for the Beatles for many of their recordings. That means he was there at the time during recording and heard / saw everything that went on. So if you think I'm stretching the point, then you're also saying Geoff Emerick is stretching the point. Why on earth would he lie about this?
@Vpmatt Theres are fantastic mate, really brilliant. I 'm studying the Beatles for my AS Performance Studies exam and you have no idea how much these videos are helping me. I know your more of John Lennon fan but anycahcne you cud upload sum Paul McCartney songs ? Thanks and keep it up :)
This is an incredible video, well done. The Beatles themselves were like other men, but the music and lyrics channeled through them contained magic and messages from beyond the mind. To learn the hidden messages in their songs, search "Truth Contest" in Google and click the 1st result, then on the main page of the contest, open The Present and read the section about The Beatles. Show this to every Beatles fan you know.
Check out the Youtube vids of Lennon singing the 'skeleton' of Strawberry Fields. Quite creepy actually. Lennon only mumbling the words and not even mentioning Strawberry Fields until his later workings in his personal studio. Keep digging, it's there.
enough of these comments saying to get rid of today's music and bring back artists from the dead. It's your fault for letting today's music become popular.
@TheTrollKing123 Ironically Justen Bieber is repetitive and untalented! Why don't people listen to real music like Jimi Hendrix, Metalica, Led Zeppelin, The Who, AC/DC, The Beatles, Kraftwerk, Bon Jovi, The Police, Rush, Queen, b.b king, Nirvana, Dire Straights, Lois Armstrong, The doors, Deep Purple, Abba, Muddy Waters, and George Gershwin? it's songs like those that formed real music not Justen Bieber or any other untalented idiot artist for that matter.
@Vim281 abba? really? the 70s version of today's crappy pop.....metallica..well......what can i say....and bon jovi is cheesy glossy purposeless hair metal at its finest so........everything else you mentioned is fine. i just dont know how you could mention musical and artistic geniuses like muddy waters and jimi hendrix alongside metallica and abba...
@YanksFan162 If you don't like some of my music, then you go complain about it all over the internet but, don't argue with me, please I just posted a comment on YouTube you don't have to go pull out your hair because of a comment that I posted.
@Vim281 Don't post on YouTube if you're too insecure to have people comment negatively. and don't be a hypocrite by putting down modern artists and recommending older ones that are just as untalented.
@TheTrollKing123 Justin Bieber repetitive and untalented! Why don't people listen to real music like Jimi Hendrix, Metalica, Led Zeppelin, The Who, AC/DC, The Beatles, Kraftwerk, Bon Jovi, The Police, Rush, Queen, b.b king, Nirvana, Dire Straights, Lois Armstrong, The doors, Deep Purple, Abba, Muddy Waters, and George Gershwin? it's songs like those that formed real music not Justen Bieber or any other untalented idiot artist for that matter!
I was a youngster of around 13 at the time that the story broke about Paul being dead and that the facts of the matter were contained in the 'Backwards Playing' of Strawberry Fields Forever.
I heard it with my own ears back then, the British ambulance sirens wailing and the exclamation that Paul is Dead.............Paul is Dead.
I don't have the technical skills to post Strawberry Fields backwards here on Youtube, but I am challenging someone out there to do it so you too can listen and learn.
@mejasourus I know Paul is alive, but at that time when the story broke, Paul was making no public appearances, and for a 13 year old, it seemed possible, especially when I heard that song backwards at a certain 5-second moment. Any chance you could post it on You-Tube to hear backwards?
The Whole Damn Worlds Wrong LOL , Let Me Take You Down Coz Im Going Too Strawberry FIELD , Nothing Is Real , Strawberry FIELD'S ( Field Is ) Forever ........... FIELD At 4.41 , Yet All References Lyrics State Otherwise
This song is my favorite. It has such a melancholy tune to it. Maybe because it was written about a orphanage if I am correct. But yeah such a lovely song and very deep.
Vpmatt....thank you. This is a brilliant, informative and engaging video. I thought I was a Beatles buff, but apparently there is still much more I don't know about them. In fact, when I visited UK the first time, travelling on a meager budget, I went to Liverpool, Penny Lane and several other places. It felt like I had been there before. Thanks for the video again. Kindly, keep them coming.
You say Hannah Montana, I say The Rolling Stones
You say Owl City, I say Led Zeppelin
You say Jonas Brothers, I say The Beatles
You say Justin Bieber, I say Queen
You say Taylor Swift, I say AC/DC
95% of teens these days listen to the same crappy pop over and over again. If you're one of the 5% who still listens to real music, thumb this up, then copy & paste it to at least five videos. Don't let the spirit of rock and roll die
little compositional details make this song great:
The verse starts with "living is easy with eyes closed," sung all on the same note to reinforce this close-mindedness. Then the melody expands. By measure 6 the pressure has built up and gets released with a descending line in the bass. Finally, it's wrapped up with the lyrics reaching a conclusion: "it doesn't matter much to me," while the melody comes to rest on the root note of the final chord.
@Vpmatt My music teacher has alot of beatle's albums. He showed the class how the cover of the albums all signify that Paul is dying. Such as the one where Paul sits before a case. He rotated it and it looks like Paul is put into a coffin
Excellent video. I think the second half sounds busier and noisier for some reason, but the verses were respaced by a half bar to give them more room, which is an imporvement from the demo. The mellotron and the slide guitar are paired rather than separated, also an improvement IMO. Yup, at 30 ips tape speed it is much harder to hear a splice.
But that kind of stuff was the engineer's job, so it wasn't too miraculous.
Wait, they started this song on November 24? That's the day before Thanksgiving this year! And the day of Thanksgiving next year! And the first time I discovered this song was in November! And the first time I watched this video is November! And the current number of comments is 420! And . . . and . . . and . . . okay, I'll stop now. Nice video. *faints*
For what it's worth, the Mellotron uses recordings of real instruments or singers so it's the ancestor of the sampler, not the synthesizer. Also it does not play loops. The note stops in 7 seconds and you have to wait a tiny bit to play the same note again because the tape goes back to the starting point. People still try to make clones or variations of a Mellotron with tape loops but real instruments often sound different when they start playing than when they hold a note
I have some difficulty with the lyrics. I understand John is talking about himself, he knows he's different, maybe a genius, has experienced hallucinations in the past, sees things differently from others and can either hide it or cope with it- I can pick up where he is describing that- "in his tree" (or out of his tree). But what is "I think I know I mean a Yes but it's all wrong, that is I think I disagree"? Some of the lyrics are choppy, maybe deliberately.
@brianallancobb On his handwritten lyrics here it's " I think I know I mean -er- yes but it's all wrong". Different lyric sites will give you different answers. Maybe he's mimicking a debate with someone.
Watched a film of The Beatles' first America tour (1964). The Boys are in a hotel room in New York and John is noodling around on an instrument with a keyboard except you blow into it.
Two-and-a-half years before they recorded it, he's blowing the opening bars of Strawberry Fields Forever.
@brianallancobb It's the opening bars if you allow a fair bit of a leap of imagination. I'd say he's playing a three chord progression - a major, major 7th and a 7th. That's also the same prog in Harrison's "Something" but I don't think he's playing that either.
This freak -- I use the term affectionately -- named Alan W. Pollack has analyzed the harmony, melody, lyrics, and structure of every Beatles song they wrote and recorded.
I invite you google "Alan W. Parker" and start the magical mystery tour. :-)
@Vpmatt Yes, it's the same chord change (only twice as fast and in E instead of C) same as George's Give Me Peace on Earth - which is in E, good ear...
I love the whole Mellotron debate. LMAO It even says they used it on the song in wikipedia. I got to see the inside of one when the Moody Blues came to Kansas City. I was a stagehand. It had been shipped (flown) upside down(The container had huge arrows on it). A small screw had lodged in the tape drive and it took about an hour and a half to repair. Resulting in the show being late and a few POed musicians and roadies. Like it says in wiki...heavy and fragile.
if you watch the you tube beatles first visit to the usa ,At one point Paul is playing the intro for strawberry fields on a melodion or something like that and that was in 1963.When they were singing she loves you ,yeah ,yeah.
@ rowania the acoustic version waz just an excerpt from the song that he was playing for the group, manager, etc., so there is no full version, sorry. The Beatles are
Wow, just wow. I had always thought that fidelity change to be deliberate and, may I add, a master stroke which simply added to all the wonderful changes in the song. Now to find out it was simply a side effect of a clever bit of editing and may never have happened is a bit freaky. I'm very glad it did happen though. Love this song. This and A Day in the Life.
Terrific work, interesting about that splice. It really makes the song. Ah a key change! That explains a lot. Quite amazing they must have been trying a different key out and then thought I like two bits but in different keys. Emerick must have been pleased.
What is truly amazing is the amount of progress and sophistication they developed in such a incredibly short period of time. From I wanna Hold Your Hand to this in only 2+ years. Remarkable. Truly remarkable.
No matter what, I always marvel at the beauty of this song. How trippy and how wonderful it is, thank you for sharing this information to this world. (:
I have to say, my mind is blown; not only by the beatles in itself, but by your general knowledge of the beatles, you're clearly an enthusiast; but i can't help but wonder, where did yuo get all this information? Just collective knowledge built over the years, or heavy research?
I'll never understand why this song scares some people, nor do I get why it is sometimes called psychedelic. Vpmatt, Inside a Beatles records are fun and informative. Do not listen to the naysayers.
Also, a double A side means that both songs are "featured", i.e. they are from an album. An A side was usually the "hit", and the B side was usually an unreleased song.
@dadslbm I think the A side is what was promoted for play on the radio. This was a double A, which means they wanted both songs to be played. Neither song was from an album at the time of its release. Pepper was released soon after this double single.
Nice informative vid, you're obviously a fan and Beatles enthusiast. Just a point of correction though, the indian harp is called a swarmandal, not a swordmandel.
"Brilliant. Just Brilliant". That applies to the tune and what you've done here. Actually,I'd love to hear the entire original version that's played at the end there.
@tdouglaspainting No, mate it's a mellotron. It has tape loops in it as opposed to reeds which a harmonium has. If you look at the wikipedia mellotron page you will se the exact same mellotron that I have pictured here. You should get your facts right before you go insulting people pal.
@Vpmatt. Yes it is a mellotron. Any Beatles fan with even basic knowledge knows that. Your feature is excellent - accurate and very informative (tho I knw all of that anyway, being a Beatles obsessive of over 30 yrs). And undeserving of insult, esp those who are il-informed.
Brilliant, Just Brilliant! Thanks so much for the video. I enjoy listening to music on uTube, but this is The BEST video created I have seen. Extremely informative. I thoroughly enjoyed it.
jrachelle13 2 weeks ago in playlist The Beatles Sgt.Pepper
i don't really like The Beatels but it is nice to hear one of their songs from time to time...
levyaviv1993 2 months ago
this song reminds me of my girlfriends and me taking downers for the 1st time, lol... a LONG time ago... of course, our boyfriends gave them to us, Seconal, red pills, like little strawberries, every time i here this song, i remember how much fun we had that day, about 40 years ago.....
stevinks54 3 months ago
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Transfixion 4 months ago
the beatles forever!!!
maggi42g 5 months ago
wow
thx
David44763 5 months ago
This, A Day In The Life, and Tomorrow Never Knows
CardingtonLZF 5 months ago
He says both I Buried Paul and Cranberry Sauce, one after another, its not heard well on the record version...
kingfunkyjunky 5 months ago
You've done a great job for a great record. Thanks for clearing up the cranberry sauce cause i didn't want Paul to be dead. I feel so educated now.
jesstjazz 6 months ago
LSD
franzken 6 months ago
I don't understand the ending. What about that part caused "the hairs to stand up on the necks of G. Martin and G. Emerick"? Was it just because it was a good recording or what?
NicLou23 6 months ago
@NicLou23 The haunting sound of his voice, the brilliant lyrics and chords etc
Vpmatt 6 months ago 3
Where is the part which John sings 'cranberry sauce'? Or, 'I buried Paul'? Couldn't hear it :(
NicLou23 6 months ago
@NicLou23 at exactly 4:00
Vpmatt 6 months ago
@Gyphia He contradicted himself in stating his own tastes, and i pointed that out. and i guess you are someone to accurately point out that my comments show feelings of being "uptight" and "upset." you can clearly see how enraged i sound in my posts...if i were one to talk, i'd say the elementary spelling errors you committed in your haste to complete your comment, as well as the use of a curse, indicate the anger and uptightness you accuse me of............btw, it's spelled "hypocrite."
YanksFan162 7 months ago
Love the Beatles and thankful people like you have that otherwise not widely known info to share. Thanks for the great work. This is definately one to keep.
MsAlone4now 7 months ago
i love them
Paulasaucedo1 7 months ago
i went to strawberry fields and i saw graffiti every where and i saw names on rocks
dragonsteven128 8 months ago
No, actually, the Mellotron was the predecessor to the Emulator. Synthesizers were around at least as far back as the `50's.
RedVynil 8 months ago
they captured a magic and a spirit of the supernatural , that has rarely been rivaled by anyone else, cept Zeppelin , but even they tried to mimic them in some ways, but had their own real spirit also, dont bicker about politics and goings on within their recordings people, just enjoy them, that's what George and John would like.
frankenboston 8 months ago
the acoustic version is beautiful :)
doglover52 8 months ago
"I buried Paul!" lol. cool :D this song is my alltime fav, song..always will be.
kaliberr021 8 months ago
In regard to the 'Cranberry Sauce' comment (not about the song but of the (Thanks Giving comment) I think that might be stretching a point,'Thanks Giving' is not something taked about in the UK per say. I think you may have been 'matching' the comment with the incident rather than 'Cranberry Sauce' comment in isolation.
No Beatles writer has referred to it that I have read, if so please let me know l would be glad to see it!!
Other wise a very informative piece of video.
Beatgeneration2010 8 months ago
@Beatgeneration2010 I'm starting to get tired of people arguing this point. The Beatles writer who wrote about it was Geoff Emerick, who was assistant engineer and then full engineer for the Beatles for many of their recordings. That means he was there at the time during recording and heard / saw everything that went on. So if you think I'm stretching the point, then you're also saying Geoff Emerick is stretching the point. Why on earth would he lie about this?
Vpmatt 8 months ago
15 people like blueberries and justin beiber
TheScarfaceJoker 8 months ago 5
@TheScarfaceJoker lol
Vpmatt 8 months ago
@Vpmatt Theres are fantastic mate, really brilliant. I 'm studying the Beatles for my AS Performance Studies exam and you have no idea how much these videos are helping me. I know your more of John Lennon fan but anycahcne you cud upload sum Paul McCartney songs ? Thanks and keep it up :)
MasterLiam 9 months ago
@MasterLiam You're right about me and Lennon. Was planning to do Penny Lane next though, if I ever get around to it. Glad to be of help too!
Vpmatt 8 months ago 6
lol...i've never seen anybody who has a worse penmanship than me....
tabotabojayar 9 months ago
@tabotabojayar thats what i though. I thought right handed people had good hand writing
doglover52 8 months ago
This is an incredible video, well done. The Beatles themselves were like other men, but the music and lyrics channeled through them contained magic and messages from beyond the mind. To learn the hidden messages in their songs, search "Truth Contest" in Google and click the 1st result, then on the main page of the contest, open The Present and read the section about The Beatles. Show this to every Beatles fan you know.
vividDC 9 months ago
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vividDC 9 months ago
Dude you're videos are awesome! Great info about these iconic songs. Make more please!!!
6swimstar 9 months ago
God damn, this is good.
And also, this whole video is pretty groovy, dude.
Really, good job.
SaraShayne 9 months ago
i think he says something about puff pastry / steamed steak and kidney pudding a propper one mind not 1 bit of fat that's what i think anyway
sg2massive 10 months ago
Love this song!
AirsoftFTW98 10 months ago
Check out the Youtube vids of Lennon singing the 'skeleton' of Strawberry Fields. Quite creepy actually. Lennon only mumbling the words and not even mentioning Strawberry Fields until his later workings in his personal studio. Keep digging, it's there.
classicconnexionband 10 months ago
@classicconnexionband
Link?
NicLou23 6 months ago
brilliant!
25and6 10 months ago
john definitely says I buried Paul. Paul is the walrus and was the first one to go.
BigDtootall 10 months ago
Strawberry Fields Forever.
The Beatles Forever.
Tastynukacola 10 months ago
It might very well be cranberry sauce, but they don't have Thanksgiving in England. It was probably related to Christmas.
tedwilson79 11 months ago
@tedwilson79 Wrong it was thanksgiving. See my recent comment to another viewer.
Vpmatt 7 months ago
First heard this with Bobby Schmidt in a Bunker while stationed at Con Thien, Vietnam. This is for you Bobby!!
Micelli1947 11 months ago 2
I would say it was more like a sampler, than a synthesiser.
derekrevell 11 months ago
John Lennon actually thought the final recording of Strawberry Fields sounded like shit. It's revealed in a 1980 interview sometime before his death.
Matrix803 11 months ago
SOMEONE PLEASE TELL ME WHAT VERSION IS PLAYING AT THE END!!!
nawanilakgaP 11 months ago
@nawanilakgaP It's the original version which I took from the Love remix album.
Vpmatt 11 months ago
@Vpmatt awesome! thanks!
nawanilakgaP 11 months ago
SOMEONE PLEASE TELL ME WHAT VERSION IS PLAYING AT THE END?!!
nawanilakgaP 11 months ago
I am in love with the Beatles.
HadeaNadea 1 year ago
whats the version at the end???????
sflowmusic 1 year ago
january 31 is my birthday
manolitomulat 1 year ago
Yay work on the song began on my birthday!
mejasourus 1 year ago
enough of these comments saying to get rid of today's music and bring back artists from the dead. It's your fault for letting today's music become popular.
patyoyo 1 year ago
@TheTrollKing123 Ironically Justen Bieber is repetitive and untalented! Why don't people listen to real music like Jimi Hendrix, Metalica, Led Zeppelin, The Who, AC/DC, The Beatles, Kraftwerk, Bon Jovi, The Police, Rush, Queen, b.b king, Nirvana, Dire Straights, Lois Armstrong, The doors, Deep Purple, Abba, Muddy Waters, and George Gershwin? it's songs like those that formed real music not Justen Bieber or any other untalented idiot artist for that matter.
Vim281 1 year ago
@Vim281 baha bon jovi
SKAisJOY 10 months ago
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Vim281 10 months ago
@SKAisJOY Sorry I forgot.
Vim281 10 months ago
@Vim281 metallica? bon jovi? abba? give me a break...
YanksFan162 7 months ago
@YanksFan162 Give you a break? you need a Kit Kat.
Vim281 7 months ago
@Vim281 and you need to reevaluate what good music is.
YanksFan162 7 months ago
@YanksFan162 So do you.
Vim281 7 months ago
@Vim281 abba? really? the 70s version of today's crappy pop.....metallica..well......what can i say....and bon jovi is cheesy glossy purposeless hair metal at its finest so........everything else you mentioned is fine. i just dont know how you could mention musical and artistic geniuses like muddy waters and jimi hendrix alongside metallica and abba...
YanksFan162 7 months ago
@YanksFan162 If you don't like some of my music, then you go complain about it all over the internet but, don't argue with me, please I just posted a comment on YouTube you don't have to go pull out your hair because of a comment that I posted.
Vim281 7 months ago
@Vim281 Don't post on YouTube if you're too insecure to have people comment negatively. and don't be a hypocrite by putting down modern artists and recommending older ones that are just as untalented.
YanksFan162 7 months ago
@TheTrollKing123 Justin Bieber repetitive and untalented! Why don't people listen to real music like Jimi Hendrix, Metalica, Led Zeppelin, The Who, AC/DC, The Beatles, Kraftwerk, Bon Jovi, The Police, Rush, Queen, b.b king, Nirvana, Dire Straights, Lois Armstrong, The doors, Deep Purple, Abba, Muddy Waters, and George Gershwin? it's songs like those that formed real music not Justen Bieber or any other untalented idiot artist for that matter!
Vim281 1 year ago
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Vim281 1 year ago
Thanks Vpmatt for including these awesome descriptions
classicconnexionband 1 year ago
I was a youngster of around 13 at the time that the story broke about Paul being dead and that the facts of the matter were contained in the 'Backwards Playing' of Strawberry Fields Forever.
I heard it with my own ears back then, the British ambulance sirens wailing and the exclamation that Paul is Dead.............Paul is Dead.
I don't have the technical skills to post Strawberry Fields backwards here on Youtube, but I am challenging someone out there to do it so you too can listen and learn.
beaconmike 1 year ago
@beaconmike I have, sounds like complete gibberish to me. Paul is alive and well.
mejasourus 1 year ago
@mejasourus I know Paul is alive, but at that time when the story broke, Paul was making no public appearances, and for a 13 year old, it seemed possible, especially when I heard that song backwards at a certain 5-second moment. Any chance you could post it on You-Tube to hear backwards?
beaconmike 1 year ago
The Whole Damn Worlds Wrong LOL , Let Me Take You Down Coz Im Going Too Strawberry FIELD , Nothing Is Real , Strawberry FIELD'S ( Field Is ) Forever ........... FIELD At 4.41 , Yet All References Lyrics State Otherwise
jungleandy4 1 year ago
Listen closely to the "1 2 3 4" before the arpeggiated harp and "Always know sometime think it's me"
Who is this?
classicconnexionband 1 year ago
@classicconnexionband It is Lennon.
dakotajoman 1 year ago
@classicconnexionband John Lennon of course. He liked to do silly count ins.
Vpmatt 11 months ago
This song is my favorite. It has such a melancholy tune to it. Maybe because it was written about a orphanage if I am correct. But yeah such a lovely song and very deep.
Rodita1 1 year ago
Vpmatt....thank you. This is a brilliant, informative and engaging video. I thought I was a Beatles buff, but apparently there is still much more I don't know about them. In fact, when I visited UK the first time, travelling on a meager budget, I went to Liverpool, Penny Lane and several other places. It felt like I had been there before. Thanks for the video again. Kindly, keep them coming.
redcom111 1 year ago
@redcom111 Thanks, Penny Lane coming very soon!
Vpmatt 7 months ago
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Deadman00005 1 year ago
little compositional details make this song great:
The verse starts with "living is easy with eyes closed," sung all on the same note to reinforce this close-mindedness. Then the melody expands. By measure 6 the pressure has built up and gets released with a descending line in the bass. Finally, it's wrapped up with the lyrics reaching a conclusion: "it doesn't matter much to me," while the melody comes to rest on the root note of the final chord.
jdsowa 1 year ago
hehe i know all the lyrics to almost all their songs!!!!! please let the Beatles live on forever, not justin b dork face who can't sing.
thebeatlesrock775 1 year ago
John Lennon could have written nothing else but this song and still be considered a genius.
shoesheep 1 year ago
@shoesheep Too right. This is my alltime favourite Beatles track. Its VERY LSD
SalsaAdam 1 year ago
Brilliant!
WeeBobLegend 1 year ago
according to a recent interview with paul hes apparantly saying "Fuck you i'm going to kill a bunch of innocent people."
physic4lgraffiti 1 year ago
Great job!!! Thank you for sharing!!!
Kaya1955 1 year ago
Can You Do Come Together in my life or and i love her?
DanielSimpkinsJPGR 1 year ago
its said to say instead of cranberry sauce it might say "i bured paul"
CodeRedPRODUCTion15 1 year ago
@CodeRedPRODUCTion15
Yes. And it's wrong.
Vpmatt 1 year ago 15
@Vpmatt So very wrong.
leauxbert 1 year ago
@Vpmatt
hey i really like that version at the end, is there a way i can download it? or?
arvind0588 11 months ago
@Vpmatt My music teacher has alot of beatle's albums. He showed the class how the cover of the albums all signify that Paul is dying. Such as the one where Paul sits before a case. He rotated it and it looks like Paul is put into a coffin
MathStringInputOutpu 10 months ago
@MathStringInputOutpu which album?
NicLou23 6 months ago
@CodeRedPRODUCTion15 you can actually hear him say S so it's can't be Paul
0live0wire0 1 year ago
@CodeRedPRODUCTion15 it definitely says i buried paul
TheFutbolpimp2009 9 months ago
Love that mellotron!
100percentgamer 1 year ago
Phenomenal insight, love sharing the magic of The Beatles with my kids
roojunk 1 year ago
i wasnt born when this was released but i love the hell out this song.Beautiful!Music just isnt the same like it was back then
7jakell 1 year ago
Excellent video. I think the second half sounds busier and noisier for some reason, but the verses were respaced by a half bar to give them more room, which is an imporvement from the demo. The mellotron and the slide guitar are paired rather than separated, also an improvement IMO. Yup, at 30 ips tape speed it is much harder to hear a splice.
But that kind of stuff was the engineer's job, so it wasn't too miraculous.
powergirl901 1 year ago
@powergirl901 No miracles, just a bit of luck and good engineering.
Vpmatt 7 months ago
I see what they mean about Lennons first singing of it, haunting.
hales51 1 year ago
i know paul isn't dead, but apperently this was recorded in area of when people say paul died HE IS NOT DEAD, and this video is solid proof
chard6788 1 year ago
It's a really good mork ! Good clip ! I've rediscovered my favourite song thanks to you !!! This song is THE MASTERPIECE !
lucysd1983 1 year ago
Fantastic song, the best ever recorded...
Please checkout my first video upload, with Chris Rea singing, thxxxxxxxxx
MusicMadGuy2010 1 year ago
Wait, they started this song on November 24? That's the day before Thanksgiving this year! And the day of Thanksgiving next year! And the first time I discovered this song was in November! And the first time I watched this video is November! And the current number of comments is 420! And . . . and . . . and . . . okay, I'll stop now. Nice video. *faints*
mario64guy 1 year ago
For what it's worth, the Mellotron uses recordings of real instruments or singers so it's the ancestor of the sampler, not the synthesizer. Also it does not play loops. The note stops in 7 seconds and you have to wait a tiny bit to play the same note again because the tape goes back to the starting point. People still try to make clones or variations of a Mellotron with tape loops but real instruments often sound different when they start playing than when they hold a note
yumeganai 1 year ago
Cool clip.
shelly10538 1 year ago
dont play this around metalheads trust me it doesint go down well
SexPistolsUK94 1 year ago
I have some difficulty with the lyrics. I understand John is talking about himself, he knows he's different, maybe a genius, has experienced hallucinations in the past, sees things differently from others and can either hide it or cope with it- I can pick up where he is describing that- "in his tree" (or out of his tree). But what is "I think I know I mean a Yes but it's all wrong, that is I think I disagree"? Some of the lyrics are choppy, maybe deliberately.
VonFisch1 1 year ago
@VonFisch1
They were doing a hell of a lot of acid right around then.
brianallancobb 1 year ago
@brianallancobb Yeah, but I just wanted to know what the heck he's saying in this line which seems to be written like stammering.
VonFisch1 1 year ago
@VonFisch1
Googled "lyrics Strawberry Fields" and came up with, "I think I know of thee, ah, yes, but it's all wrong."
As a kid I used a made-up word, "anelome" (ah-nell-ah-me), whenever I heard the song. "I think anelome, ah yes, but it's all wrong."
brianallancobb 1 year ago
@brianallancobb On his handwritten lyrics here it's " I think I know I mean -er- yes but it's all wrong". Different lyric sites will give you different answers. Maybe he's mimicking a debate with someone.
VonFisch1 1 year ago
@VonFisch1
I did so much acid whatever he meant is all right with me. :-)
I didn't blow my mind out in a car, but whatever the Walrus said, Strawberry Fields Forever. :-)
brianallancobb 1 year ago
@VonFisch1 That's the reason this is a Psychedelic masterpiece.
00watcher 1 year ago
Watched a film of The Beatles' first America tour (1964). The Boys are in a hotel room in New York and John is noodling around on an instrument with a keyboard except you blow into it.
Two-and-a-half years before they recorded it, he's blowing the opening bars of Strawberry Fields Forever.
brianallancobb 1 year ago
@brianallancobb It's the opening bars if you allow a fair bit of a leap of imagination. I'd say he's playing a three chord progression - a major, major 7th and a 7th. That's also the same prog in Harrison's "Something" but I don't think he's playing that either.
Vpmatt 1 year ago
@Vpmatt
This freak -- I use the term affectionately -- named Alan W. Pollack has analyzed the harmony, melody, lyrics, and structure of every Beatles song they wrote and recorded.
I invite you google "Alan W. Parker" and start the magical mystery tour. :-)
brianallancobb 1 year ago
@brianallancobb Sounds like a bit of a head trip!
Vpmatt 1 year ago
@Vpmatt Yes, it's the same chord change (only twice as fast and in E instead of C) same as George's Give Me Peace on Earth - which is in E, good ear...
bpanzullo1 1 year ago
give him the Sir
misterpeaky 1 year ago
bye bye member of british empire i would suggest sir john lennon...after winston of course...
misterpeaky 1 year ago
I love the whole Mellotron debate. LMAO It even says they used it on the song in wikipedia. I got to see the inside of one when the Moody Blues came to Kansas City. I was a stagehand. It had been shipped (flown) upside down(The container had huge arrows on it). A small screw had lodged in the tape drive and it took about an hour and a half to repair. Resulting in the show being late and a few POed musicians and roadies. Like it says in wiki...heavy and fragile.
Wonderful work here Vpmatt. TY!
markinkc54 1 year ago
Fascinating ! Thanks so much.
plumedekiwi 1 year ago
thanks for the information, the best song of the beatles GREAT HIT
abeljoro 1 year ago
if you watch the you tube beatles first visit to the usa ,At one point Paul is playing the intro for strawberry fields on a melodion or something like that and that was in 1963.When they were singing she loves you ,yeah ,yeah.
phunkyboy 1 year ago
Thank you so much for the info!
sesamebay 1 year ago
holly shit You are going too fast !!!
onehourago 1 year ago
@onehourago the symbol with the two little lines is a pause button. Use it to stop the video if you are falling behind.
Vpmatt 1 year ago 19
My all-time favorite track from the Fabs....great video!
JLATL1973 1 year ago
this is the best biggest song all thanks to my grandmother
memories.
Mastergenius00 1 year ago
this song touch my soul
malatodiGT 1 year ago
My Homeys. Brings back memories of the cavern and my youth in Liverpool and a great time for us scousers!!!!!
jazyag 1 year ago
like i always say when i hear this song. gives me the taste of sweet strawberries
brainiac554 1 year ago
@ rowania the acoustic version waz just an excerpt from the song that he was playing for the group, manager, etc., so there is no full version, sorry. The Beatles are
Forever
PSNoverkill56 1 year ago
The best part is 2:55-2:59
55810082 1 year ago
Brilliant, Just Brilliant..
Music and descriptions.
I've been listening to The Beatles all my life and I did ignored many of this facts.
It's an Amazing work (with capital a).
Thank you..
J077535 1 year ago
CRANBERRY SAUCE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
IHateEdwardCullen385 1 year ago
And this is why the Fair Use clause exists! Amazing stuff!
ianhawdon 1 year ago
i love the beatles , im like there biggest fan ,
xxemack 1 year ago
Do you have the full version of what is at the end?
The Acoustic guitar sounds sweet.
rowania 1 year ago
@rowania from Beatles Love remix album.
Vpmatt 1 year ago
@rowania Could you do more of these? There very intresting. Full of info! :)
whomad132 1 year ago
@rowania the full take is on the anthology 3
MrJowilson9 1 year ago
Wow, BRILLIANT and wonderful analysis, you're on my hit list.
modspell 1 year ago
Wow! I like it...mi favorita cancion....
quijanov79 1 year ago
Although I disdain Lennon's far left wing politics, Strawberry Fields is one of my favorite songs and clearly his best.
FaganRoberts 1 year ago
Wait a minute that last "first recording" is the exact intro to the LOVE album's version of this song...
R u lying???
HSAdestroy 1 year ago
@HSAdestroy that's right the LOVE version is not the same as the released version - it's an earlier version.
Vpmatt 1 year ago
Wow, just wow. I had always thought that fidelity change to be deliberate and, may I add, a master stroke which simply added to all the wonderful changes in the song. Now to find out it was simply a side effect of a clever bit of editing and may never have happened is a bit freaky. I'm very glad it did happen though. Love this song. This and A Day in the Life.
Sigoroth 1 year ago
Nice job on the video...
I enjoyed the the read...
JamZorro 1 year ago
Terrific work, interesting about that splice. It really makes the song. Ah a key change! That explains a lot. Quite amazing they must have been trying a different key out and then thought I like two bits but in different keys. Emerick must have been pleased.
Paulxo 1 year ago
What is truly amazing is the amount of progress and sophistication they developed in such a incredibly short period of time. From I wanna Hold Your Hand to this in only 2+ years. Remarkable. Truly remarkable.
kurosawa99999 1 year ago
Great video. As a Lennon fan, a Beatles fan, a singer/songwriter, and a recording engineer, I always appreciate efforts like this.
agilblom 1 year ago
No matter what, I always marvel at the beauty of this song. How trippy and how wonderful it is, thank you for sharing this information to this world. (:
Rawhrz 1 year ago
the acoustic version at the end. wonderful. where can I find the rest (if exists)
giaccomusic 1 year ago
this song make me wanna sleep.. ̿̿̿ ̿' ̿'̵͇̿̿з=(•̪●)=ε̵͇̿̿'̿'̿ ̿
khord11 1 year ago
I have to say, my mind is blown; not only by the beatles in itself, but by your general knowledge of the beatles, you're clearly an enthusiast; but i can't help but wonder, where did yuo get all this information? Just collective knowledge built over the years, or heavy research?
XoNeWiNgEdDeMoNx 1 year ago
@XoNeWiNgEdDeMoNx Books books and more books!
Vpmatt 1 year ago
I'll never understand why this song scares some people, nor do I get why it is sometimes called psychedelic. Vpmatt, Inside a Beatles records are fun and informative. Do not listen to the naysayers.
InstantMagic 1 year ago
3:30 i hear John saying "I buried Paul"
3:59 i hear "Cranberry Sauce"
jpaulobrazil 1 year ago
Wow, the acoustic version at the end is pretty decent! I got to check out the full version! Thanks!
2bin 1 year ago
Fantastic work... goose bumps everytime i hear this masterpiece.
boringvideo 1 year ago
Also, a double A side means that both songs are "featured", i.e. they are from an album. An A side was usually the "hit", and the B side was usually an unreleased song.
dadslbm 1 year ago
@dadslbm I think the A side is what was promoted for play on the radio. This was a double A, which means they wanted both songs to be played. Neither song was from an album at the time of its release. Pepper was released soon after this double single.
VonFisch1 1 year ago
Nice informative vid, you're obviously a fan and Beatles enthusiast. Just a point of correction though, the indian harp is called a swarmandal, not a swordmandel.
dadslbm 1 year ago
@dadslbm Actually it's spelt both ways.
Vpmatt 1 year ago
"Brilliant. Just Brilliant". That applies to the tune and what you've done here. Actually,I'd love to hear the entire original version that's played at the end there.
PaulMountainSageBear 1 year ago
NOT POP!!! THAT IS AN INSULT TO THE BEATLES!!!THEY DO ROCK/REAGGEA
Zankiser 1 year ago
@Zankiser you can't even spell reggea right, and i doubt any of their music could be considered as such.
XoNeWiNgEdDeMoNx 1 year ago
@XoNeWiNgEdDeMoNx that's Reggae
fenyxfury 1 year ago
i love this song and im 13 :L
WhatsThePointe201 1 year ago
@WhatsThePointe201 As am I, but that's not stopping me from loving it. No matter what age you are, you can always love this song.
Rawhrz 1 year ago
happy 70 birthday Ringo!
tomloft2000 1 year ago
Brilliant, Just Brilliant!
Guitarchaeologist 1 year ago 3
That's NOT a mellotron, you nitwit, it's a harmonium.
tdouglaspainting 1 year ago
@tdouglaspainting No, mate it's a mellotron. It has tape loops in it as opposed to reeds which a harmonium has. If you look at the wikipedia mellotron page you will se the exact same mellotron that I have pictured here. You should get your facts right before you go insulting people pal.
Vpmatt 1 year ago 18
@Vpmatt. Yes it is a mellotron. Any Beatles fan with even basic knowledge knows that. Your feature is excellent - accurate and very informative (tho I knw all of that anyway, being a Beatles obsessive of over 30 yrs). And undeserving of insult, esp those who are il-informed.
braybeatles1 1 year ago