<Tr> <Td_colspan="2"> <Ul> <Li> file </Li> <Li> help </Li> </Ul> </Td> </Tr> <Ul> <Li> file </Li> <Li> help </Li> </Ul> <P> "Strawberry Fields Forever" is a song by the English rock band the Beatles . It was released in February 1967 as a double A-side single with "Penny Lane". The song was written by John Lennon and credited to the Lennon--McCartney songwriting partnership . Lennon wrote the song in Almería, Spain, where he was filming a role in the anti-war comedy How I Won the War . He drew inspiration from his childhood memories of playing in the garden of Strawberry Field, a Salvation Army children's home near to where he grew up in Liverpool . </P> <P> The song was the first track recorded during the sessions for the Beatles' Sgt . Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, starting in November 1966, and was intended for inclusion on the album . Instead, with pressure from their record company and management for new product, the group were forced to issue the single, and then adhered to their philosophy of omitting previously released singles from their albums . The double A-side peaked at number 2 on the Record Retailer chart, behind Engelbert Humperdinck's "Release Me", thereby breaking the band's four - year run of chart - topping singles in the UK . In the United States, "Strawberry Fields Forever" peaked at number 8 on the Billboard Hot 100 . To the Beatles' displeasure, the song was later included on the US Magical Mystery Tour LP . </P>

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