Strawberry Fields Forever

4:07 • Studio version • A • Mono

Paul McCartney : Bass, Bongos, Electric guitar, Mellotron, Timpani Ringo Starr : Drums, Percussion John Lennon : Acoustic guitar, Bongos, Mellotron, Piano, Vocals George Harrison : Electric guitar, Maracas, Svarmandal, Timpani George Martin : Producer Geoff Emerick : Recording engineer Mal Evans : Tambourine Derek Simpson : Cello Norman Jones : Cello Neil Aspinall : Guiro Terry Doran : Maracas Tony Fisher : Trumpet Greg Bowen : Trumpet Derek Watkins : Trumpet Stanley Roderick : Trumpet Joy Hall : Cello

SessionRecording Take 7 : Nov 29, 1966 • Studio : EMI Studios, Studio Two, Abbey Road

SessionRecording Take 26 : Dec 08, 1966 • Studio : EMI Studios, Abbey Road

SessionOverdubs : Dec 09, 15 and 21, 1966 • Studio : EMI Studios, Abbey Road

SessionMixing : Dec 22, 1966 • Studio : EMI Studios, Studio Two, Abbey Road

4:07 • Studio version • A • Mono

Paul McCartney : Bass, Bongos, Electric guitar, Mellotron, Timpani Ringo Starr : Drums, Percussion John Lennon : Acoustic guitar, Bongos, Mellotron, Piano, Vocals George Harrison : Electric guitar, Maracas, Svarmandal, Timpani George Martin : Producer Geoff Emerick : Recording engineer Mal Evans : Tambourine Derek Simpson : Cello Norman Jones : Cello Neil Aspinall : Guiro Terry Doran : Maracas Tony Fisher : Trumpet Greg Bowen : Trumpet Derek Watkins : Trumpet Stanley Roderick : Trumpet Joy Hall : Cello

SessionRecording Take 7 : Nov 29, 1966 • Studio : EMI Studios, Studio Two, Abbey Road

SessionRecording Take 26 : Dec 08, 1966 • Studio : EMI Studios, Abbey Road

SessionOverdubs : Dec 09, 15 and 21, 1966 • Studio : EMI Studios, Abbey Road

SessionMixing : Dec 22, 1966 • Studio : EMI Studios, Studio Two, Abbey Road

4:07 • Studio version • A • Mono

Paul McCartney : Bass, Bongos, Electric guitar, Mellotron, Timpani Ringo Starr : Drums, Percussion John Lennon : Acoustic guitar, Bongos, Mellotron, Piano, Vocals George Harrison : Electric guitar, Maracas, Svarmandal, Timpani George Martin : Producer Geoff Emerick : Recording engineer Mal Evans : Tambourine Derek Simpson : Cello Norman Jones : Cello Neil Aspinall : Guiro Terry Doran : Maracas Tony Fisher : Trumpet Greg Bowen : Trumpet Derek Watkins : Trumpet Stanley Roderick : Trumpet Joy Hall : Cello

SessionRecording Take 7 : Nov 29, 1966 • Studio : EMI Studios, Studio Two, Abbey Road

SessionRecording Take 26 : Dec 08, 1966 • Studio : EMI Studios, Abbey Road

SessionOverdubs : Dec 09, 15 and 21, 1966 • Studio : EMI Studios, Abbey Road

SessionMixing : Dec 22, 1966 • Studio : EMI Studios, Studio Two, Abbey Road

3:30 • Outtake • Take 7

3:21 • Outtake • RM3

3:47 • Outtake • Take 25

3:37 • Outtake • Take 26

2:35 • Outtake • D • Take 1. [...] the final master was not completed almost a month after this initial session. As it took shape on 24 November, with an alternative lyric order and arrangement, this recording was considerably different from that master.

Paul McCartney : Mellotron Ringo Starr : Drums John Lennon : Acoustic guitar, Vocals George Martin : Producer Geoff Emerick : Recording engineer

SessionRecording : Nov 24, 1966 • Studio : EMI Studios, Studio Two, Abbey Road

4:14 • Outtake • E • Take 7 and edit piece. Just five days after that initial take of Strawberry Fields Forever the song's arrangement was undergoing dramatic change. The master was a composite of two separate recordings - the first minute came from Take 7 the remainder from Take 26. Presented here, issued for the first time, is the full Take 7, going beyond those first 60 seconds (indeed, including within that first minute a 23-second verse that was later excised). The sound is mono because the recording presented here is an original mono mix - labelled RM3 - made, like Take 7, on 29 November 1966. The conclusion of the original master (embracing Take 26) included sections flown in from a combination of edit piece taped on 9 December featuring backwards cymbals, a "wild drum track" played by Ringo and some extemporal vocalising by John. A much longer section of this edit piece is released here, again for the first time, crossfaded on to the end of RM3. At the conclusion one can hear John twice mutter "cranberry sauce", a phrase which, less clearly audible right at the end of the master mix, has long puzzled listeners.

Paul McCartney : Bass, Electric guitar, Mellotron, Timpani Ringo Starr : Drums John Lennon : Finger cymbals, Gourd, Guitar, Lead vocals, Maracas, Mellotron, Tambourine George Harrison : Bongos, Maracas, Mellotron, Swarmandal George Martin : Mellotron, Producer Geoff Emerick : Recording engineer Mal Evans : Finger cymbals, Gourd, Maracas, Tambourine Neil Aspinall : Finger cymbals, Gourd, Maracas, Tambourine Terry Doran : Maracas

SessionRecording : Nov 29, 1966 • Studio : EMI Studios, Studio Two, Abbey Road

SessionRecording : Dec 09, 1966 • Studio : EMI Studios, Studio Two, Abbey Road

Studio version • Take 26

3:19 • Outtake • RM 3 from Take 7 complete mono mix of take 7

4:08 • Outtake • RM 9 from Take 26 new vocal

1:25 • Outtake • Take 1

1:47 • Outtake • Take 7 & 26

2:55 • Outtake • Take 26

3:10 • Outtake • take 1

6:37 • Outtake • takes 2-4

4:35 • Outtake • takes 5-6

3:29 • Outtake • take 7

3:40 • Outtake • take 25 minus track 2

3:33 • Outtake • take 26 minus beginning vocal

3:43 • Outtake • take 25

3:39 • Outtake • take 26

4:11 • Live

Concert From the concert in Stevenage, UK on Jun 30, 1990

4:11 • Studio version • A2019 • 2019 remaster

Paul McCartney : Bass, Bongos, Electric guitar, Mellotron, Timpani Ringo Starr : Drums, Percussion John Lennon : Acoustic guitar, Bongos, Mellotron, Piano, Vocals George Harrison : Electric guitar, Maracas, Svarmandal, Timpani George Martin : Producer Geoff Emerick : Recording engineer Mal Evans : Tambourine Derek Simpson : Cello Norman Jones : Cello Neil Aspinall : Guiro Terry Doran : Maracas Tony Fisher : Trumpet Greg Bowen : Trumpet Derek Watkins : Trumpet Stanley Roderick : Trumpet Joy Hall : Cello Sean Magee : Remastering

SessionRecording Take 7 : Nov 29, 1966 • Studio : EMI Studios, Studio Two, Abbey Road

SessionRecording Take 26 : Dec 08, 1966 • Studio : EMI Studios, Abbey Road

SessionOverdubs : Dec 09, 15 and 21, 1966 • Studio : EMI Studios, Abbey Road

SessionMixing : Dec 22, 1966 • Studio : EMI Studios, Studio Two, Abbey Road

Live • Medley with "Help!","Give Peace A Chance"

Concert From the concert in East Rutherford, USA on Jul 11, 1990

6:46 • Live • Medley with "Help!","Give Peace A Chance"

Concert From the concert in Stevenage, UK on Jun 30, 1990

4:33 • Live

Concert From the concert in Chicago, USA on Jul 29, 1990

3:07 • Alternate take

6:36 • Alternate take

8:04 • Alternate take

3:43 • Alternate take

3:31 • Alternate take