What is Strawberry Fields?
It’s a name, it’s a nice name. When I was writing “In My Life” — I was trying “Penny Lane” at that time — we were trying to write about Liverpool, and I just listed all the nice sounding names just arbitrarily. Strawberry Fields was a place near us that happened to be a Salvation Army home. But Strawberry Fields — I mean I have visions of Strawberry Fields. And there was Penny Lane, the Cast Iron Shore which I’ve just got in some song now, and they were just good names, just groovy names. Just good sounding. Because Strawberry Fields is anywhere you want to go. Actually I’ve just written a song which goes “I told you about Strawberry Fields/And you heard about the Walrus and me/Told you about the Fool on the Hill…,” it’s amazing.
