The amazing recording story of Strawberry Fields Forever
In 1966, shortly after completing their album Revolver, The Beatles decided to stop touring and focus entirely on their work in the studio. Their first attempt was the song Strawberry Fields Forever, and what followed was some of their most creative work ever.
The book featured in the video is ‘Here, There and Everywhere: My Life Recording the Music of the Beatles’ by Geoff Emerick.
@DavidHunt-q1q
August 4, 2025 at 12:38 pm
MY ABSOLUTELY FAVORITE GROUP,I JUST WISHED I GROWN UP WITH THEM,NO Actually NO,I WOULD BE IN MY 80'S INSTEAD OF 50'S.I LOVE THEM PERIOD 🤟
@ssavaart
August 4, 2025 at 12:38 pm
This was wonderful!
@stephenbirch2432
August 4, 2025 at 12:38 pm
Wonderful vid. Thank you
@bbfan-cm4ub
August 4, 2025 at 12:38 pm
Take that Quincy Jones
@Owenwithee
August 4, 2025 at 12:38 pm
Brilliant commentary. Amazing recording.
@bbbbbbking
August 4, 2025 at 12:38 pm
Nothing is real
@miazaleironev
August 4, 2025 at 12:38 pm
I have a question. What doesn’t add up to me is that Take 7 sounds absolutely like a slowed down tape. That suggests that by then they already played it faster and in the key of C. In that case cutting those two takes together didn’t require tempo and key matching. Am I wrong?
@Jeff_H_the_Guitarist
August 4, 2025 at 12:38 pm
When they bounce down a couple tracks from the 4 tracks, are those new tracks forever married together with the combined instruments? Example. If they combined the drum and bass track toghether onto one track are they never able to solo that drum or bass track? Hopefully that makes sense.
@JH-si9oe
August 4, 2025 at 12:38 pm
It's one of my favourite tracks .
@1952FMS
August 4, 2025 at 12:38 pm
They took our hand, heart & soul & helped recover the Kennedy assassination. Complex different, ahead of their time. I can not thank them enough.
@malachy9400
August 4, 2025 at 12:38 pm
So the best band in the world decides to stop playing live music in 1966 when they were all in their early twenties. Isn't that around the time when it was rumoured that one of them died and was replaced by a lookalike? It makes sense now that they stopped touring and then split up a few years later.
@savannahrogersmusic
August 4, 2025 at 12:38 pm
This was fascinating to learn! Thank you! I love this song and had no idea of the back story.
@casaraku1
August 4, 2025 at 12:38 pm
take26 is the winner
@MichaelBishop-b4r
August 4, 2025 at 12:38 pm
Certainly one of my favorites from them.
@DarrellSt.Blaine
August 4, 2025 at 12:38 pm
I think it's fair to say that their ability to pursue a creative approach to recording would not have been possible without their wealth. No one else was pushing the possibilities of recording because no one else could afford to. I'm not denigrating their talent or creativity, simply pointing out that other producers and artists did not have the privilege that the Beatles had. Well earned, certainly, but privilege never the less.
@JohnDoe-tw8es
August 4, 2025 at 12:38 pm
Always has been my favourite song.
@DailyNihilism
August 4, 2025 at 12:38 pm
George didn't play guitar thru nellotrom , what does that mean anyway
@cromwel1st
August 4, 2025 at 12:38 pm
Only got to number 2 uk top 20
@garysullivan9243
August 4, 2025 at 12:38 pm
I have and read Geoff's book. Brilliant!
@DavidLawuvsU-x5l
August 4, 2025 at 12:38 pm
So to a great extent, the brilliance of the Beatles, was the skills of their recording/arranging crew. Because let's be honest, there's very few, especially in that time period. That would walk into a recording studio, and say, I have an idea for a song, and not have anything for instruments to play or words to sing. And still proceed with gathering up a song, with recording engineers working, and come walking out an hour later. With a song, master recording, and a distribution contract all now in process. Like what the Beatles would do. And in particular, John and Paul would do. Who as they would put it in interviews, would be, we never went into a studio without 7 or 8 songs to work on. And never left without having made something ( as they woul say, having a dry run. Meaning they spent hours in the studio and produced nothing. Which it's known many bands ended up doing( producing nothing) nothing.
But what they ( John and Paul meant when they would say that was, often enough, literally nothing more than ideas they had in mind.
Like a movie writer walking up to a producer and saying, I have an idea for a movie, and it's, A boy and his dog go on an adventure ( maybe adding, in the middle of winter). And the producer would say,..ok.. let's do that..I like that idea. And literally from only a presented idea, start creating a movie from it( basicly from scratch). Which is what the Beatles did, but it was songs, not movies.) Crazy.
@dantedelgado3037
August 4, 2025 at 12:38 pm
What’s the book at the begging?
@christopherlawley1842
August 4, 2025 at 12:38 pm
And now we have the Analogues playing all the non-tour songs
@jasenjahn
August 4, 2025 at 12:38 pm
You’re doing God’s work with your Beatles content. TY
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