Why The Beatles' 'Strawberry Fields Forever' Made Yoko Ono 'Emotional'

The Beatles’ “Strawberry Fields Forever” was the first song by the Fab Four that Yoko Ono heard. Someone showed her the song at a cocktail party. “Strawberry Fields Forever” became a hit once in the United States and twice in the United Kingdom.

You know, it’s like [Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s] A Little Night Music was from that Magritte painting of a black tree with half a silver moon on it,” he said. “It’s irrelevant to the musical, except to know that the guy saw that picture and got this idea or whatever.”

“And it was so funny,” she said. “I was in sort of a cocktail party that was given by an art critic, you know, and then he said, ‘Listen to this,’ and he just put that on. 

“And I said, ‘Can you imagine pop songs coming to this? What do you think … the world’s come to this, pop singers start doing this?'” she added. “I thought, ‘Wow!’ And that’s why even now, I get emotional when I hear this one. That’s the first Beatles song that I’ve heard.”

Source: Matthew Trzcinski/cheatsheet.com

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