Editing Strawberry Fields Forever (section)

==Cover versions==
===Candy Flip===
{{Infobox song
| name       = Strawberry Fields Forever
| cover      = Candy_Flip-Strawberry_Fields_Forever.jpg
| alt        =
| type       = single
| artist     = [[Candy Flip]]
| album      = [[Madstock...]]
| released   = 1990
| B-side     = "Can You Feel the Love"
| recorded   = 
| studio     =
| venue      =
| genre      = [[Synth-pop]]<ref name="DiGravin/AM">{{cite web|first=Tim|last=DiGravina|title=Candy Flip ''Madstock ...''|url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/madstock-mw0000316182|publisher=[[AllMusic]]|access-date=22 March 2020}}</ref>
| length     = 4:09
| label      = Debut Edge
| writer     = [[Lennon–McCartney]]
| producer   = Dizzie Dee, Ric Peet
| chronology = [[Candy Flip]]
| prev_title = Love Is Life
| prev_year  = 1989
| next_title = This Can Be Real
| next_year  = 1990
| misc       = {{External music video|{{YouTube|Gp6Wc9IQ1w0|"Strawberry Fields Forever"}}}}
}}

"Strawberry Fields Forever" returned to the charts in 1990 when the duo [[Candy Flip]], one of the British acts associated with the [[Madchester]] revival of 1960s psychedelia and fashion,<ref>{{cite news|first=Jon|last=Savage|title=Flaring Up: The Stone Roses at Spike Island|newspaper=[[The Observer]]|date=8 July 1990}} Available at [https://www.rocksbackpages.com/Library/Article/flaring-up-the-stone-roses-at-spike-island Rock's Backpages] (subscription required).</ref> released an [[Electro (music)|electro]]nic version of the track.<ref name="Sutton/AM">{{cite web|first=Michael|last=Sutton|title=Candy Flip |url=https://www.allmusic.com/artist/candy-flip-mn0000652992/biography|publisher=[[AllMusic]]|access-date=22 March 2020}}</ref> It peaked at number three on the UK Singles Chart in March that year,<ref name="CandyFlipUK">{{cite web|url=https://www.officialcharts.com/search/singles/strawberry-fields-forever/|title=Strawberry Fields Forever|publisher=[[Official Charts Company]]|access-date=18 December 2017}}</ref> and number seven in Ireland.<ref name="CandyFlipIRE" />{{refn|group=nb|Following this, McCartney began including the song in his 1990 live performances as part of a "Lennon Medley". He first played it at the Lennon tribute concert organised by Ono and held at Liverpool's [[King's Dock, Port of Liverpool|King's Dock]] on 28 June.{{sfn|Badman|2001|p=449}}}} The recording was also popular on college and indie radio in the US,<ref name="Sutton/AM" /> where it peaked at number 11 on the [[Modern Rock Tracks]] chart.<ref name="BBModernRock" />

Bill Coleman from ''[[Billboard (magazine)|Billboard]]'' commented that the remake was "a stroke of genius", adding: "It's one of those records that make you say to yourself 'how come I didn't think of that' ... An esoteric reading and tasteful production carried by a lazy hip-hop beat. If picked up stateside this could (and deserves to) be massive!"<ref>{{cite magazine|first= Bill |last= Coleman |title= Dance Trax: U.S.-U.K. Buzz On Candy Flip, K Collective |magazine= [[Billboard (magazine)|Billboard]] |date= 28 April 1990 |page= 28 |access-date= 14 October 2020 |url= https://worldradiohistory.com/Archive-Billboard/90s/1990/BB-1990-04-28.pdf}}</ref> In her contemporary review for ''The Network Forty'', Diane Tameecha described the single as "what happens when Liverpool meets Manchester". She said that the track was an "instantly likable cover" on which "Relatively sparse accompaniment, in the form of [[Pet Shop Boys]]' keyboard sounds mixed with that now 'classic' house drum sound, lends a cool flavor to the old [[The Beatles|Fab Four]] workhorse."<ref>{{cite magazine|first=Diane|last=Tameecha|url=https://www.americanradiohistory.com/Archive-Network-40/90/Network-40-1990-08-03.pdf|title=Crossover: Alternative|magazine=The Network Forty|date=3 August 1990|page=60|access-date=21 March 2020}}</ref> Dele Fadele from ''[[New Musical Express|NME]]'' declared it as a "cheeky update", that "shook ''[[Top of the Pops|TOTP]]'' to the rafters".<ref>{{cite magazine|first=Dele|last=Fadele|url=https://www.flickr.com/photos/nothingelseon/52299435546/|title=Long Play|magazine=[[New Musical Express|NME]]|date=23 February 1991|page=31|access-date=5 April 2023}}</ref> In his review of Candy Flip's debut album, ''[[Madstock...]]'', Tim DiGravina of AllMusic describes "Strawberry Fields Forever" as an "extremely successful" reworking of the Beatles' original, and admires it as one of the tracks that convey "the joys of perfect, happy places that simply can't exist".<ref name="DiGravin/AM" />

===Other artists===
"Strawberry Fields Forever" has been recorded by many other artists. [[Tomorrow (band)|Tomorrow]], a band that, along with Pink Floyd and [[Soft Machine]], spearheaded London's psychedelic scene,<ref>{{cite web|first=Richie|last=Unterberger|url=https://www.allmusic.com/artist/tomorrow-mn0000621185/biography|publisher=[[AllMusic]]|title=Tomorrow|access-date=18 December 2017 }}</ref> drew heavily from the Beatles' work in their February 1968 release ''[[Tomorrow (Tomorrow album)|Tomorrow]]'' and included a cover of the song on that album.{{sfn|DeRogatis|2003|pp=159–60}} The [[Vanilla Fudge (album)|self-titled debut album]] by American rock band [[Vanilla Fudge]], released in August 1967, contained a brief homage to "Strawberry Fields Forever" at the end of their cover of "Eleanor Rigby". (The homage is entitled "ELDS" on CD versions of the album, and CD versions of the album in fact additionally spell out an acrostic of the song as an homage, with portions of preceding tracks entitled "STRA", "WBER" and "RYFI".)<ref>{{cite web |publisher=[[AllMusic]] |url={{AllMusic|class=artist|id=p5744|pure_url=yes}} |title=Vanilla Fudge Songs |access-date=31 December 2009}}</ref> In August 1969, [[Richie Havens]] performed "Strawberry Fields Forever" as part of his set to open the [[Woodstock Festival]].<ref>{{cite web|publisher=woodstock.com|url=https://www.woodstock.com/lineup/ |title=Line Up" > "Day One: Friday, August 15|access-date=18 December 2017}}</ref>

In 1976, a version by [[Todd Rundgren]] was released on his album ''[[Faithful (Todd Rundgren album)|Faithful]]'', and [[Peter Gabriel]] covered the track in the musical documentary ''[[All This and World War II]]''. Highlighting the line "Living is easy with eyes closed", Gabriel's recording accompanies newsreel footage of British prime minister [[Neville Chamberlain]]'s "[[Peace for our time]]" declaration after his meeting with [[Adolf Hitler]] in Munich in 1938.{{sfn|Rodriguez|2010|pp=306–07}} A recording by [[Ben Harper]] was used in the 2001 film ''[[I Am Sam]]'',<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/i-am-sam-mw0000211379 |publisher=[[AllMusic]] |title=Original Soundtrack: I Am Sam|date=20 July 2017 }}</ref> and [[Jim Sturgess]] and [[Joe Anderson (actor)|Joe Anderson]] covered the track for the 2007 film ''[[Across the Universe (film)|Across the Universe]]''. [[Los Fabulosos Cadillacs]] recorded a [[ska]] version of the song<ref>{{cite magazine|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=RsAnJ7Zx_qgC&q=Strawberry+Fields+Forever&pg=RA8-PA15 |first=Leila|last=Cobo|title=Beatles, Latin Style|magazine=[[Billboard (magazine)|Billboard]]|date=7–21 January 2012|access-date=15 December 2017|page=15}}</ref> featuring [[Debbie Harry]] for their 1995 album ''[[Rey Azúcar]]'', which was a hit in Latin America.<ref>{{cite magazine|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Pw0EAAAAMBAJ&q=Strawberry+Fields+Forever&pg=PA67 |first=Marcelo|last=Fernández Bitar|title=Los Fabulosos Cadillacs Riding High in Argentina|magazine=[[Billboard (magazine)|Billboard]]|date=25 November 1995|access-date=15 December 2017|pages=64, 67}}</ref>

The song has also been covered by [[the Bee Gees]], [[the Bobs]], [[Eugene Chadbourne]], [[Sandy Farina]], [[Laurence Juber]], [[David Lanz]], [[Cyndi Lauper]], [[Me First and the Gimme Gimmes]], [[Mother's Finest]], [[Odetta]], [[Andy Partridge]], [[the Shadows]], [[Plastic Penny]], [[the Ventures]] and [[Cassandra Wilson]].<ref name="Fontenot/About2" /> The vocal melody for "Strawberry Fields Forever" provided the piano score of experimental classical composer [[Alvin Lucier]]'s 1990 composition "Nothing Is Real".<ref>{{cite web|first=Blair|last=Sanderson|url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/release/nothing-is-real-music-by-alvin-lucier-mr0002682189 |publisher=[[AllMusic]]|title=Mattias Kaul ''Nothing Is Real ...: Music by Alvin Lucier''|access-date=20 December 2017}}</ref>