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Strawberry Fields
One Track Mind: Al Di Meola, "Strawberry Fields" (2011)
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Something Else!
By Nick DeRiso Jazz guitarist Al Di Meola, the former teen prodigy in Return to Forever, accomplishes an uncommon thing here, making something out of a cover attempt at the Beatles' Strawberry Fields Forever." The song has such an interior nature, thanks in no small way to John Lennon's brilliant Lewis Carroll-inspired word-play, but also because of its of-the-moment doob-rock pastiche. Sure, the Beatles had done many of these tricks beforestrange chord progressions, the use of non-rock instrumentation (four trumpets, ...
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