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Article: Strawberry Fields orphanage, immortalized by Beatles, to close
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- January 13, 2005
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LONDON -- Strawberry Fields is not forever, after all.
The Liverpool children's home that inspired the Beatles' hit song
is to close, officials said Wednesday.
The psychedelic single "Strawberry Fields Forever" was released in
February 1967 with "Penny Lane" on the reverse side and quickly made
it to No. 2 in the British charts.
John Lennon wrote the song's dreamy lyrics about a time in his
childhood when he lived near the Strawberry Fields orphanage. It has
been suggested that Lennon felt a kinship with the orphans after he
was abandoned by his father and his mother, Julia, sent ...