U.S. History
Mr. Boothby
4/19/2017
SP DAY:
REACTION/DISCUSSION
FIRST: The Beatles!
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THE 1960’s: WOODSTOCK IN 1969/ HIPPIES
AP EXAM IN…23 DAYS OF CLASS!!!
GRAB A BOOK GET ON PAGE 941 NO WRITING IF ON-TASK
TONIGHT READ 946-954 + CORNELL NOTES!!!
Get with a partner after reading/ re-reading 941-42
DISCUSS: Why was the counterculture movement
building momentum in the late 1960’s?
Do you feel this lead into the 1969 Woodstock experience?
AFTER…We are going to STRAWBERRY FIELDS!
Can you tell me what in the heck this song
means? Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JBeEPlW7grk
AFTER: USE YOUR DEVICE AND UNLOCK THE SECRET!
OR…SEE BELOW!
JOHN EXPLAINS HIS TAKE ON WHAT THE SONG MEANS!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VAZAdhPXQ2w
NOW…
UNLOCK THE SECRET!
Janis Joplin - Piece of My Heart [live Woodstock] (Caution Language)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vThD7ot9oII&feature=related
Run @1:40min
Joe Cocker - A Little Help From My Friends - Woodstock 1969
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uQYDvQ1HH-E
1967 Hippie Temptation TV documentary (Includes The Dead!)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8zHmi9y-KLo
WARNING: THIS STUFF IS WEIRD!
Reaction: 1 Page MINIMUM…
What does this mean? See if you can explain…
“Strawberry Fields Forever.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z2D-_6lQ9js
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eG8cR4ovD_o
http://www.songfacts.com/detail.php?id=116
OK…NOT REALLY THAT WEIRD!
OR IS IT A “COVER-UP”???
Strawberry Field was a Salvation Army home in Liverpool where John Lennon used to go. He
had fond memories of the place that inspired this. In 1984, Lennon's widow Yoko Ono
donated $375,000 to the home. (thanks, Bertrand - Paris, France)
John's aunt Mimi did not like John going to Strawberry Fields, as it was basically an
orphanage and she thought they would lead John astray. John liked going there because
having lost his father and later his mother he felt a kinship to the lads. When John and his
aunt would argue about his going he would often reply, "What are they going to do, hang
me?" Thus the line "Nothing to get hung about." In America, to be "hung up" is to worry
about something, so many US listeners thought the line meant that it was nothing to get "hung
up about." (thanks, Ken - Hartland, MI)
THE TRUTH SHALL SET YOU FREE!
THE BLUE or RED PILL???
Lennon (from his 1980 interview with Playboy magazine): "Strawberry Fields is a real place.
After I stopped living at Penny Lane, I moved in with my auntie who lived in the suburbs in a nice
semidetached place with a small garden and doctors and lawyers and that ilk living around... not the
poor slummy kind of image that was projected in all the Beatles stories. In the class system, it was
about half a class higher than Paul, George and Ringo, who lived in government-subsidized housing.
We owned our house and had a garden. They didn't have anything like that. Near that home was
Strawberry Fields, a house near a boys' reformatory where I used to go to garden parties as a kid
with my friends Nigel and Pete we would go there and hang out and sell lemonade bottles for a
penny. We always had fun at Strawberry Fields. So that's where I got the name. But I used it as an
image. Strawberry Fields forever."
Some of the lyrics reflect being misunderstood. Lennon added: "The second line goes, 'No one I
think is in my tree.' Well, what I was trying to say in that line is, 'Nobody seems to be as hip as me,
therefore I must be crazy or a genius.'" (thanks, Conrad - Los Angeles, CA)
Lennon wrote this while he was in Spain working on a movie called How I Won The War. He
house where he stayed was in Almeria, which is in the southeast corner of the country. (thanks,
Michelle Hardman - Leeds, England)
A distorted voice at the end sounds like "I buried Paul," which fueled rumors that Paul
McCartney was dead. The voice is actually Lennon saying, "Cranberry sauce." Over the end credits
of the Simpsons episode "D'oh-in In The Wind," you can hear Homer saying "I buried Flanders" in
reference to this. (thanks, Tommy - Flower Mound, TX)
There is a memorial to Lennon in Central Park called "Strawberry Fields." It is located across
from The Dakota, the building in New York City where Lennon lived.
John donated money to Strawberry Fields before his death. One of its buildings is named "Lennon
Hall."
This was released as the flip side of "Penny Lane." The Beatles often released singles that
contained a song written by Lennon on one side, and a song written by McCartney on the other.
Which single was considered the A-side was sometimes a point of contention.
This was the first Beatles single to break their long-running streak of #1 hits in the UK. If they
had not released it with "Penny Lane," they would have beaten the existing #1 by a large margin, but
stores recorded sales for one side of the single or the other, which hurt the chart position for this
song.