There is ONLY the original Strawberry Fields Forever!

This sounds like the original to me ...... and I was around then as a teen !

This song was always addictive ❤

Strawberry Fields Forever was released in 1967 as a double A side single with Penny Lane.

This is the version guys. John Lennon vocals - 2 takes spliced together. It's a song where the more you listen to it, the more you appreciate it. Released as a Double A with Penny Lane which ultimately cost them as it broke their streak of 12 Number Singles in a row because both songs, both Number 1's in their own right were competing against each other & Engelbert Humperdinck took the No1 spot with Release Me.

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Lennon was singer song writer for this composition. His voice was slowed down to give it a psychedelic tone

The video is from the Magical Mystery Tour film that was on TV in 1968. One of my favorite Beatles songs, but I have a lot of favorites.

One of the most iconic tracks, not only by The Beatles, but by anyone ever. You really need to listen again.

Beautiful song. Absolute masterpiece

That has to be Lennon. His accent and intonation are different from McCartney's.

Years and years ahead of it's time ❤❤❤

Strawberry Fields is a real place in Liverpool and I believe was tge grounds of a children's home where John Lennon used to go and play when he was a child.

At the time this was made, NOBODY was making music like this, except Brian Wilson & The Beach Boys [ Pet Sounds]. The recording techniques were truly innovative, mixing orchestra & band, layering, and the tape loops & reversed sounds. Nowadays, this could be made in about 20 mins in a digital studio, or even in somebody's bedroom with a laptop. Back then, this was the work of DAYS. At the time, I think Abbey Road /EMI were still using 4 track analogue tape, and hence there was continual 'bouncing down' of 4 tracks onto one, to create space for more layers. This wasn't done on 128 track stereo digital.

The Beatles are legendary, the best band with so many beautiful songs. 🎶🎶🎶😍👍

For me this is the greatest song of all time. The video is wonderful too. And yes for maximum affect listen with headphones, an eargasm for the ears.

He should listen to it again to appreciate more

Strawberry Fields - a small city park near John's childhood home

John definitely singing this one boys!

Goodness, that was quite a trippy music video. I'd never seen the video before.

Not a different version, just a stereo remaster of the original. I haven't seen anyone in the comments explain this songs recording story yet, so I'll do that: This song went through 2 major incarnations, those being a very relaxed mellotron and electric guitar based version and a more intense, higher pitched orchestral version. John Lennon's 2 favorite takes were take 7 (the chill version) and take 26 (the orchestral version), and could not decide which one he wanted released, so he told George Martin to try and combine them. What George Martin ended up doing was literally cutting the recording tape of take 7 a minute in, slowing down the recording of take 26 to be at roughly the same key as 7, cutting the first minute _off_ of 26 and taping the first minute of 7 to the rest of 26. Around a minute in when Lennon says "going to" you can here his voice get deeper, and it sounds great. And I do agree that The Beatles do have multiple genres. They're still a rock band, but sort of multi-genre rock. That's kind of the same deal with a modern band I've been obsessed with for over a year now called King Gizzard And The Lizard Wizard. Silly name, I know, but their music can be whatever genre they want it to be. Sometimes its electronic dance music, sometimes its thrash metal, sometimes its psychedelic pop. It really depends on the album, and sometimes depends on what song on said album.

The lead vocals WERE Lennon; from "going..." in the refrain after the first verse onward, they're somewhat slowed down, so they might not be so readily recognizable. After the Beatles had begun to dabble with musical psychedelia in their _Revolver_ a;bum, it was this song, along with "Penny Lane", that PLUNGED them head-on into their "later era"!

Lennon for sure but they were experimenting a lot in the studio post recording at this time especially Lennon which you can hear in much of his stuff. This is where they became the groundbreaking and influential band inventing techniques that is still influencing music 60 years on, they were a great pop + rock n roll group early on but that stuff is very much of its time, this is where for me they earned that special elite status.

This is it…the original

this bit here in the song , man i wish they would have gone on with this 5:30 George's guitar needed to keep going , still a good song but should have made this longer

This is the original version.

This is the original version definitely!

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Lennon on main vox. Insanely good. The first truly weird pop song?

There's only one version, this one, including the psychedelic parts! I was born to young parents in the 60s and guess which albums they had & which I heard from the very beginning!! Yep, the Beatles! I've been listening this since the late 60s/early 70s.

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one of the first first kind of synthesizer ever used in that intro

That's 1967 ooops!!

This song along with Penny lane was done around the time of Sgt Pepper's.

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It has always been psychedelic. This song rules. That was John Lennon singing all the way through. His voice may sound different because half of the song was sped up and the other half was slowed down to make 2 different "takes" of the song into the same speed and key. In doing so, John's voice sounds a little different.

Definitely Lennon on lead vocals. Part of the song is detuned because it wasnt in the same key as the intro. Therefore, his voice sounds deeper.

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Real and original.

This is definitely John Lennon… I seem to remember hearing they slowed the tape down when mixing, that’s why John’s voice sounds a little different.

Did you notice that the music was reverse recorded also.

Famously released as a double-A side - Lennon’s being Strawberry Fields and McCartney’s being Penny Lane. The pair of them give best exposition of the difference in their two styles, as does the middle vs. start/end of A Day in the Life. It cannot be overstated how influential this was - together with the video - in the look, feel and sound of the psychedelic movement. It’s also the first time Lennon was presented in his trademark round glasses. And the video was shot in January, so yes, it probably was very cold.

This is the original

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The video is really cool but I think for the first time you should just listen to this masterpiece. There’s so much going on. The lyrics are so trippy yet amazing. The strings and horns come in in the second verse and the cello arrangements are awesome. As good as any classical music. They also change through the song. Then there is Ringo’s drumming. The song was recorded in two different keys because the second recording had the horns and strings. Lennon liked both versions and asked George Martin to use the first recording in the beginning and the orchestral version for the rest. Let the George Martin genius begin.The technology was limited at that time but they figured a way to speed up the first recording and slow down the second recording until they matched adding to the trippy sound of the track.

If you want trippy you should watch the yellow submarine animated film which includes a lot of their later songs big up the Blue Meanies

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This IS the original fellas,and John was singing throughout. Sometimes the American label (Capitol) would fuck about with the track order,album titles and sometimes,leave out the British track releases and include the left out tracks on the next album. Maybe they made the version you know a bit more for the American market and toned down the more psychedelic aspects,I don’t know,but this is the original.

John Lennon on vocals.

This is the original. It added to the rumour that Paul McCartney had died. If you listen at the very end, you will hear John say "I buried Paul".

An introduction to psychedelia.

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It's totally psychedelic and John on lead vocal. It's a grower, you should listen to it again. Gabe, Yellow Submarine is a kids song but also has a double meaning, it was also a drug, "barbiturate Nembutal which was sold in yellow capsules, or as a symbol for escapism". As someone else has said below, you should watch the animated film, Yellow Submarine.

This is probably the original. I was around at the time so I don't remember.

February 1067, try to imagine what we felt when this came out. Part of a double A side single with Penny Lane. Either was a worthy #1. The Beatles = Game changers.

Is it from the Magical Mystery Tour movie?

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Pure Beatles, pure John Lennon. Pure music video, that can also be interpreted as an MTV precursor. Great psychedelic classic from early 1967. The tree in the video is often sought out by Beatles fans, but it fell victim to a storm in the 1980s. Personally, I wish some current songs were no longer than an early Beatles track... The "Strawberry Fields" site, an important place in John Lennon's childhood, is one of the pilgrimage destinations for Beatles fans, similar to Penny Lane, the Cavern Club or Abbey Road. And there are many different genres in the discography and not only diverse tones. It's this ease with which the Beatles made these often opposing genres their own. And woe betide anyone, who comes here with the "I buried Paul" nonsense again...😂✋

Revolution - the hard rock version

Yesterday is mid or early Beatles actually, Strawberry mid or later era from the style at least

Imagine is not a Beatles song. They ended with Sgt Pepper’s.

Gabe's ignorance of The Beatles is totally understandable due to him not listening to them before this channel, but how is Nick basically on the same level as him? Dude, at least skim a Wikipedia page before these reactions.

the closest americans get to british bands is to talk about them

Imagine is not a Beatle song.

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it IS Lennon!....Your "definitely not Lennon"...LOL....is definitely wrong!

The song is amazing. The video not so much. It distracts from the attention to the music IMO.

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I have never liked the Beatles i find their music boring, music to sleep by, give me Queen anyday

This is the ONE AND ONLY Strawberry Fields Forever unless you're referring to unreleased versions and even though this was the right one, you still cut it short as after it fades out it then fades back in again. Written and sung by John Lennon. I thought the one guy was a Beatle fan. Apparently not.

This is the original version.