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Francis Kenny

UNBELIEVABLE: The untold strawberry fields backstory - Caught on Camera

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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