011 Nothing is Real: Strawberry Fields Forever, take 26

Producing The Beatles by Jason Kruppa

Apr 13, 202000:27:20Music

Recording Strawberry Fields Forever was a complicated, layered process, famously requiring the cutting together of two different takes in two different keys and tempos. Today we put our magnifying glass on the second of...

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