Paul McCartney singing JOHN LENNON's song - STRAWBERRY FIELDS FOREVER

Paul McCartney singing strawberry fields forever in the studio, during the Get Back Sessions..

🎥 Video excerpt from the documentary
"The Beatles: Get Back"®

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[thethbeatle]

The small guitar parts lennon is putting in here sound amazing

[bakerstreet]

This is amazing. The Beatles admitted that none of them could read or write music, yet they can play and compose with transcendental ability. Talk about being able to think outside of the box!

[Valientlink]

A song they recorded just 2 years earlier and yet it was a lifetime of change for all 4 of them.

[Stevesk]

Paul watching John. John not looking back; but playing music along with Paul, to show he's listening.

This is indicative of their entire relationship.

[BugRib]

It's like he's trying to get his friend to _see_ him again. There's a sadness to it. McLennon is no more. 😞😢😭

[Vas]

This is really Paul trying to call out for John, trying to get his attention, and show that he’s there. That he feels sort of empty with yoko being with John all the time. I can just feel the yearning through the screen

[iltubodimichele]

The best thing I’ve ever seen on a screen, no doubts.
Paul singing John’s best song (imho) looking at him.
I really didn’t expect that.
Wonderful moment.

[wilsonking]

Would love to hear a full song version with Paul McCartney - his voice and the piano!

[cullencochran]

such a profound moment. They loved each other

[ricochet]

This is such a beautiful and intimate moment. The breakdown of a relationship, no eye contact from John, Paul knows he’s lost him but is reminding him of when they were back in Liverpool as boys and telling him that he’ll always love him “forever”.

[asgo]

Oh John, just turn around and look at him! He's trying to tell you something..

[martian_chan]

Love how they just jam out there older songs like that, especially considering they weren't ever planning to play these songs in front of an audience at the time. It makes sense how they became so talented in those short few years by just constantly jamming.

[Larrymh]

This is what great bands do: support and celebrate each other's talents.

[BullToTheShit]

Great variation on the original. Paul's voice fits it perfectly.

[ChucksAstrophotography]

I can hear possibly the birth of 'Maybe I'm Amazed' in the way he's playing the piano.

[maruzencentral]

Wow this quality is so clean it doesn't even feel that old

[nogunnofear]

I too would like to hear a full version of that from Paul. The first time I heard that song I was lying on the flight deck of the USS Princeton off the coast of California. It was night time I was looking at the stars and listening to a San Francisco radio station when they played it. Magic. I miss John

[paulshotter]

Paul McCartney singing strawberries field's forever in the studio good to watch them at work having a laugh with each other good stuff

[leejohnson]

One of the greatest songs ever recorded. Very difficult to do it justice live, especially with the technology available to them at the time. McCartney found some nice piano chords that worked here. They were just a great team, and George Martin was so good at helping them realise their ideas.

ps there is some misunderstanding (no pun intended) in the comment section. This wasn't a recording session for the song. They were just jamming it. Strawberry Fields Forever had been released a year earlier in 67. The song was so heavily produced and reliant on unique recording processes, such as backward loops and slowed down tape it was almost impossible to recreate live, which is why it sounds like they are in the writing stage here.

[mozartsbaby]

John was never happy about the way Strawberry Fields was arranged, and he's on record saying that Paul took an experimental approach to the song which John wouldn't have done and in hindsight didn't like.

To me, this clip is Paul giving John a glimpse of what the song could/should have been, sensitively done, full of emotion and longing.