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Francis Kenny

The untold "Strawberry Fields" backstory

The gates of the former Salvation Army orphanage Strawberry Field, immortalised by the Beatles song 'Strawberry Fields Forever', where John Lennon used to play as a child, in Woolton on March 19, 2011 in Liverpool, England. (Jim Dyson/Getty Images)

As I began researching for my book, "Understanding John Lennon," I discovered that the story for the Beatles' "Strawberry Fields Forever" was not as most people originally thought. The popular story told is about a girls' orphanage with that name, but the true inspiration was to be found elsewhere – within a breakout at a juvenile hall during a dark time in the artist's childhood.

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