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...STRAWBERRY FIELDS! "Strawberry Fields" is a memorial to John Lennon (1940–1980), located in Central Park in New York City. It is named after “Strawberry Fields Forever,” the song Lennon wrote and recorded with The Beatles in 1967. During a visit in early June, I experienced something unexpected. Although I arrived relatively early (before 8 a.m.), there were already two men playing Beatles songs — a guitarist and a singer. A third man, who seemed to be more than just a listener, was sitting next to them. After they played "Girl", which I partly sang along to, the singer asked whether anyone in the (still rather small) crowd had a song request. I asked for " Day Tripper " and sang the famous guitar riff that opens the song: daaa-da-da-da-da-daaa-da-daa-da-da-da. When the song was over, the "third man" looked at me and said, "You sing better than some of the people who have made a career in music." I smiled and thought to myself, ...
