Taking a Closer Look at The Beatles Perfect Single by Theresa Gauthier
Let Me Take You Down: Penny Lane and Strawberry Fields Forever by Jonathan Cott Jonathan Cott’s Let Me Take You Down: Penny Lane and Strawberry Fields Forever is a slim yet detailed look at two iconic Beatles songs, how they were written and recorded and their impact on the world at large. The songs should be familiar to even the most casual of fans. Recorded as part of the Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band sessions, and intended for inclusion on that album, the songs were released early as the Powers That Be at the Record Label were reluctant to wait for the album to be finished. The theory then was that you couldn’t wait too long between releases or you’d be forgotten. It’s ludicrous to think that even by this time people in the business side of music still thought The Beatles might be a flash in the pan, might disappear before they had time to record their masterpiece, and might so alienate their fans by a long stretch of time between official releases that they would ne
