9 Hidden Details In Beatles Tracks You Never Noticed
2. Strawberry Fields Forever
Strawberry Fields might actually be my favourite Beatles song. Not that you really care, you’re here for the article, not my life story. The thing is though when I was little, the outro to the track, which was released as a double A-side with Penny Lane, used to freak me the heck out.
With it’s swirling, droning, unhinged cacophony, and some syncopated, madcap tub-bashing from Ringo, it felt like an acid trip gone bad. But in amongst the racket, John Lennon - that ruddy bespectacled genius - can be heard saying something ponderous and distinct.
He swore that he was simply saying ‘Cranberry sauce’. Yeah, that makes perfect sense, mate. The other school of thought on this oddball detail, and one that I - as a fully-subscribed Paul McCartney Death Conspiracy Truther - have bought into is that he’s actually saying ‘I buried Paul’.
Have a listen, and if you tell me that you can hear Lennon chuntering on about a festive condiment then I will come to your house, knock on your front door - if your significant other answers I will ask them to go and get you, waiting politely on the doorstep - and then when you finally get to the porch, I WILL CALL YOU A LIAR.