Strawberry Fields

Central Park tribute

Strawberry Fields is a memorial in New York City's Central Park honoring John Lennon, named after the Beatles song "Strawberry Fields Forever." The song itself references a Salvation Army children's home in Liverpool where Lennon played as a boy.

The phrase evokes nostalgia, dreamlike innocence, or psychedelic reverie: Nothing is real, and nothing to get hung about.

Opposites
cultural symbolism

Strawberry FieldsGround Zero

September 2001 attack site

Dealey Plaza · Altamont · Kent State · Checkpoint Charlie · Auschwitz

musical mood/aesthetic

Strawberry FieldsPenny Lane

Liverpool street, oft-photographed

God Save the Queen · Helter Skelter · industrial noise · hardcore punk · death metal

musical/artistic style

Strawberry FieldsPlease Please Me

Repeated polite appeal

Family

field, fields, strawberry, strawberries, fielded, fielding, fieldwork, fieldworker, fieldworkers

Familiarity
Top 500,000
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Used worldwide · Timeless · Concrete · Positive · Everyday, not technical · Rated G