{"id":2448726,"date":"2019-09-14T13:05:54","date_gmt":"2019-09-14T19:05:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=884532"},"modified":"2019-09-14T13:05:54","modified_gmt":"2019-09-14T19:05:54","slug":"liverpools-strawberry-field-inspiration-for-beatles-classic-opens-to-public-for-first-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/music-news\/liverpools-strawberry-field-inspiration-for-beatles-classic-opens-to-public-for-first-time\/","title":{"rendered":"Liverpool\u2019s Strawberry Field, Inspiration for Beatles\u2019 Classic, Opens to Public for First Time"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/GettyImages-1167699428.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p>Strawberry Field, the Salvation Army children\u2019s home in Liverpool near John Lennon\u2019s childhood home that inspired <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/the-beatles\/\" id=\"auto-tag_the-beatles\" data-tag=\"the-beatles\">the Beatles<\/a>\u2019 1967 classic \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/strawberry-fields-forever\/\" id=\"auto-tag_strawberry-fields-forever\" data-tag=\"strawberry-fields-forever\">Strawberry Fields Forever<\/a>,\u201d opened to the public for the first time Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>The property \u2013 a popular tourist destination for Beatles fans that draws a reported 60,000 people a year \u2013 had been off-limits for decades, with the grounds walled off by a brick perimeter and a red metal gate.<\/p>\n<p>However, starting today, the gates would open to the public permanently, with the Salvation Army converting the on-site building \u2013 which <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/strawberry-fields-site-beatles-made-famous-to-close-113850\/\">shuttered in 2005<\/a> after the original children\u2019s home there was demolished in 1973 \u2013 into a visitors\u2019 center focused on Lennon\u2019s Liverpudlian youth.<\/p>\n<p>Tickets to visit the grounds are available through <a href=\"http:\/\/www.strawberryfieldliverpool.com\/visit\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">the Strawberry Field website<\/a>. \u201cEach visitor will enter into a world where \u2018nothing is real\u2019 plunging into the 1860\u2019s era where Strawberry Field began as a Victorian house,&nbsp;before it transformed into a safe place where The Salvation Army supported and homed some of Liverpool\u2019s vulnerable youth,\u201d the site states. \u201cVisitors can then experience through archival footage, photographs and timelines and our specialist media guides the world where John Lennon played as a child and what happened behind the famous red gates.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cJohn Lennon found sanctuary here as a child and that\u2019s exactly what we want to offer by opening the Strawberry Field gates for good,\u201d Salvation Army Territorial Commander Commissioner Anthony Cotterill said in a statement (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/travel\/article\/strawberry-field-beatles-open-trnd-travel\/index.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">via CNN<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>Julia Baird, Lennon\u2019s sister, added in a statement, \u201cI\u2019ve been really impressed by the Salvation Army\u2019s vision and now there is huge potential to make a real change in the lives of young people who will grow in the precious soil of Strawberry Field.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/liverpool-strawberry-field-john-lennon-open-884532\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Strawberry Field, the Salvation Army children\u2019s home in Liverpool near John Lennon\u2019s childhood home that inspired the Beatles\u2019 1967 classic \u201cStrawberry Fields Forever,\u201d opened to the public for the first time Saturday. The property \u2013 a popular tourist destination for Beatles fans that draws a reported 60,000 people a year \u2013 had been off-limits for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[50],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2448726","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-27 20:30:00","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSPN The Valley&#039;s Quality Rock","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2448726","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2448726"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2448726\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2448726"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2448726"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2448726"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}