Strawberry Fields Forever is one of the Beatles’ most famous hits, and now a new flight has highlighted how the song forever links Liverpool with a Spanish city. <\/p>\n
John Lennon wrote the earliest version of the 1967 classic while staying at the 19th century Casa de Santa Isabel residence in Almeria, on Spain’s south east coast, in September the previous year.<\/p>\n
The wild garden and ornate gates of the mansion, which is now a museum, was said to have reminded Lennon of his childhood memories playing in the grounds of Strawberry Field Salvation Army Children’s home in Liverpool – the inspiration for the song. <\/p>\n
At the time, Lennon was in Almeria filming the 1967 black comedy film How I Won the War – in which he played the minor character of Gripweed – in his only non-musical acting role. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Strawberry Fields Forever is one of the Beatles’ most famous hits, and now a new flight has highlighted…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":237510,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[96,128,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-237509","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-music","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-music","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237509","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=237509"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237509\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/237510"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=237509"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=237509"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=237509"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}