Strawberry Fields Forever
Song by The Beatles
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Sep 18, 2026
Charles AustinHOST
The Beatles' diet wasn't just important offstage either.
Charles AustinHOST
References to food and drink peppered many of the Fab Four's song titles, including Strawberry Fields Forever, A Taste of Honey, and Honey Pie.
Charles AustinHOST
Well, they skipped Wild Honey Pie, but...
Charles AustinHOST
These songs tended to be about women, though, so that's metaphorical, honey.
Claude ColeHOST
Now, if you're an older guy like me, you remember this as a huge hit from 1975.
Claude ColeHOST
And if you're a little bit younger, you probably remember it as the song that opens up the movie Guardians of the Galaxy as one of the songs that Chris Pratt's character is listening to as part of his awesome Mixed Volume 1 tape.
Claude ColeHOST
The band 10CC originally consisted of four musicians, Graham Goldman, Eric Stewart, Kevin Godley, and Lal Crane.
Claude ColeHOST
Goldman and Stewart were mostly pop-style songwriters, while Godley and Cream were a little bit more artistic and experimental in their writing style.
Claude ColeHOST
That said, they did manage to mix it up from time to time, so that if you look at the writing credits on the albums, you'll see some Godley-Goldman or Stewart-Cream compositions as well.
Claude ColeHOST
Now, Eric Stewart and Graham Goldman were members of the Mindbenders.
Claude ColeHOST
That was Wayne Fontana's old group.
Claude ColeHOST
And as that band started to move into its ending days, Stewart began recording some demos in a studio called Inner City Studios, which was owned by Peter Tattersall.
Greig WattsGUEST
Would you help me record it?" And his eyes lit up, and he's like, "Ah, someone wants to use the equipment with me." And he was probably my parents' age, so probably was highly into The Beatles.
Greig WattsGUEST
And when I said, "Can we do Strawberry Fields Forever?" Because Candyflip had come, um, again, lit up.
Greig WattsGUEST
So we recorded it.
Greig WattsGUEST
Um, did the-
Bob LamentHOST
All right.
Bob LamentHOST
Among all the audio clues unearthed during the height of the frenzy, the closing seconds of the 1967 single Strawberry Fields Forever emerged as the most widely debated vocal fragment in rock history.
Bob LamentHOST
As the song finishes, its second fade-out amidst dissonant horns, clattering percussion, and ambient studio chatter, John's voice cuts through the mix in a low, slurred monotone.
Bob LamentHOST
To millions of listeners across America in October 1969, the muffled words were unmistakably linen with solemnly intoning, "'I buried Paul.'" When broadcast repeatedly over college radio station, the single audio snippet convinced thousands of skeptical fans that there was genuine substance to the rumors.
Steve TaylorGUEST
I think part of it was perhaps conscious, and I think the Beatles made a conscious effort not to be too specific about in their songs.
Steve TaylorGUEST
Correct me if I'm wrong, but I think there are only two Beatles songs which refer to places in Liverpool, obviously Penny Lane and Strawberry Fields.
Steve TaylorGUEST
But beyond that, there was a kind of transpersonal element to the Beatles music in that it came from beyond their individual minds.
Steve TaylorGUEST
That's literally what transpersonal means, beyond the personal.
TimHOST
Question number one.
TimHOST
Which Beatles song inspired Manson's delusional race war? Is it a let it be? B, Yellow Submarine, C, Helter Skelter, or D, Strawberry Fields.
TimHOST
What are we laughing at? Yellow Submarine.
ChrisHOST
What David said, actually.
TimHOST
Which Beatles song inspired Manson's Delusional Race War? Let it be Yellow Submarine, Helter Skelter, or Strawberry Fields.
speaker_4UNKNOWN
Forever.
speaker_0UNKNOWN
Spilled my water under my desk.
TimHOST
Unsafe says B. David says C. That's right.
speaker_3HOST
They came back re-energized.
speaker_2HOST
I mean, can you imagine writing Strawberry Fields Forever after such a hiatus? That song is pure magic.
speaker_3HOST
It really is.
speaker_3HOST
And it shows how much they needed that time apart to recharge their creative batteries.
speaker_1SOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
So I'm standing on its feet.
Douglas VivianiHOST
All right, so we got a little something there of Strawberry Fields was very cool, and then we'll talk about this in a moment, but then the last thing that we heard from McCartney, and again, these sound like the news recordings because it was almost the same device, but okay.
Douglas VivianiHOST
Little did I know I'd be using them, you know, umpteen years, 34 years later on the radio, but here we go.
Douglas VivianiHOST
This one was for the YouTube.
Andrew LubyHOST
The Beatles is in there.
Andrew LubyHOST
Strawberry Fields Forever.
Andrew LubyHOST
I know.
Andrew LubyHOST
I would say the same.
Andrew LubyHOST
The Beatles is in there.
Andrew LubyHOST
Strawberry Fields Forever.
Andrew LubyHOST
I know.
Andrew LubyHOST
I would say the same.
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