Editing Strawberry Fields Forever (section)

===Strawberry Field, accolades and cultural depictions===
[[Image:Strawberry fields liverpool.jpg|thumb|right|Heavily graffiti-ed gatepost sign at Strawberry Field – with the word "Forever" added in acknowledgement of the Beatles song]]

Strawberry Field became a popular visiting place for fans of Lennon and the Beatles as a result of the song.<ref name="BBC News">{{cite news|author=BBC News staff|title=Beatles' Strawberry Fields gates removed |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-merseyside-13344102 |publisher=[[BBC News]]|date=10 May 2011|access-date=15 December 2017}}</ref><ref name="DT">{{cite news|author=Telegraph staff|title=Not even Strawberry Field's forever|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/1481076/Not-even-Strawberry-Fields-forever.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220112/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/1481076/Not-even-Strawberry-Fields-forever.html |archive-date=12 January 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live |newspaper=[[The Daily Telegraph]]|date=13 January 2005|access-date=15 December 2017}}{{cbignore}}</ref> In 1975, the Liverpool Public Relations Office published a tourism media package titled ''Nothing to Get Hung About'', which contained Beatles-related postcards and history, and a map of Liverpool.{{sfn|Schaffner|1978|p=219}} By 2011, the level of graffiti left by visitors at Strawberry Field had forced the Salvation Army to have the entrance gates removed<ref name="BBC News" /> and later relocated to the Beatles Experience centre in Liverpool.<ref name="Arnold/Times" />{{refn|group=nb|The children's home closed in January 2005. On his death in December 1980, Lennon left money to Strawberry Field in his will,<ref name="Fontenot/About2" /> and in 1984 his widow, [[Yoko Ono]], donated £50,000 to help maintain the home.<ref name="DT" />}} In July 2017, the Salvation Army began raising funds – through the sale of T-shirts and mugs emblazoned with "Nothing is real" and other lines from Lennon's lyrics – to help finance the construction of a new building at Strawberry Field. The purpose of the building is to help provide job opportunities for young adults with learning difficulties, and to commemorate Lennon, in both an indoor exhibition and a "garden of spiritual reflection".<ref name="Arnold/Times">{{cite news|first=Damian|last=Arnold|title=Salvation Army unlocks spirituality of John Lennon's Strawberry Field|url=https://www.thetimes.com/uk/article/salvation-army-unlocks-spirituality-of-john-lennons-strawberry-field-ppnlhmv7f |newspaper=[[The Times]]|date=8 July 2017|access-date=13 December 2017}}</ref>

The [[Strawberry Fields (memorial)|Strawberry Fields memorial]] in New York's [[Central Park]] is named after the song.<ref name="nycdpr">{{cite web |url=https://www.nycgovparks.org/sub_your_park/historical_signs/hs_historical_sign.php?id=12890 |title=Strawberry Fields |publisher=New York City Department of Parks & Recreation |access-date=16 December 2007}}</ref> The memorial and the Strawberry Fields area of the park, spanning 3.5 acres, was officially dedicated by [[Yoko Ono]] in Lennon's memory in October 1985.{{sfn|Badman|2001|p=359}}{{refn|group=nb|The song also inspired the title of the most widely known of the Beatles' many US [[fanzines]], ''Strawberry Fields Forever''. Its publisher, Joe Pope, organised the prototype for the official Beatles fan conventions (such as [[Beatlefest]]) with an event held in [[Boston, Massachusetts]] in July 1974.{{sfn|Rodriguez|2010|pp=299–300, 303}}}} In addition to referencing "Strawberry Fields Forever" in its title, the 2013 Spanish film ''[[Living Is Easy with Eyes Closed]]'' is a fictional account based on real-life events when a 41-year-old teacher from [[Cartagena, Spain|Cartagena]] visited Lennon in Almería when he was writing the song.{{sfn|Turner|2016|pp=524–26}}

"Strawberry Fields Forever" is one of the [[Rock and Roll Hall of Fame]]'s "500 Songs That Shaped Rock and Roll" and in 1999 was inducted into the [[The Recording Academy|National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences]]' [[Grammy Hall of Fame]].{{sfn|Womack|2014|p=874}} In the June 1997 issue of ''[[Mojo (magazine)|Mojo]]'' magazine, [[Jon Savage]] included "Strawberry Fields Forever" in his list "Psychedelia: The 100 Greatest Classics" and wrote: "When this first came on radio in early 1967, it sounded like nothing else, with its wracked vocal, out-of-tune brass section and queasy strings."<ref>{{cite magazine|first=Jon|last=Savage|title=Psychedelia: The 100 Greatest Classics|magazine=[[Mojo (magazine)|Mojo]]|date=June 1997|pages=61–62}} Available at [https://www.rocksbackpages.com/Library/Article/psychedelia-the-100-greatest-classics Rock's Backpages] (subscription required).</ref> In 2004, ''[[Rolling Stone]]'' ranked the track at number 76 on its list of the "[[Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Songs of All Time|500 Greatest Songs of All Time]]",{{sfn|Womack|2014|p=874}} a placing the song retained in the magazine's 2011 list,<ref name="rs500s">{{cite web|url=https://www.rollingstone.com/news/coverstory/500songs|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070225151511/http://www.rollingstone.com/news/coverstory/500songs|author=Rolling Stone staff|title=500 Greatest Songs of All Time: 76. The Beatles, 'Strawberry Fields Forever'|publisher=[[Rolling Stone|rollingstone.com]]|date=7 April 2011|archive-date=25 February 2007|url-status=dead|access-date=21 December 2017}}</ref> then was re-ranked at number 7 on its 2021 list, the band's highest placement.<ref>{{Cite magazine|url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-lists/best-songs-of-all-time-1224767/the-beatles-strawberry-fields-forever-2-1225331/|title=Strawberry Fields Forever ranked #7 on Rolling Stone 500 Greatest Songs List|magazine=Rolling Stone|date=15 September 2021|access-date=16 September 2021}}</ref> On a similar list compiled by ''[[Q (magazine)|Q]]'' in 2006, it appeared at number 31.{{sfn|Womack|2014|p=874}} In 2010, ''Rolling Stone'' placed "Strawberry Fields Forever" at number 3 on its list of the "100 Greatest Beatles Songs".{{sfn|Womack|2014|p=875}}<ref name=RollingStone100>{{cite web|author=Rolling Stone staff|title=100 Greatest Beatles Songs: 3. Strawberry Fields Forever |url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/lists/100-greatest-beatles-songs-20110919/strawberry-fields-forever-19691231|publisher=[[Rolling Stone|rollingstone.com]]|access-date=21 May 2013}}</ref> It was ranked as the second-best Beatles song by ''Mojo'' in 2006, after "[[A Day in the Life]]".<ref name="MojoList">{{cite magazine|last=Alexander|first=Phil|title=The 101 Greatest Beatles Songs|magazine=[[Mojo (magazine)|Mojo]]|date=July 2006|page=83|display-authors=etal}}</ref>