Strawberry Fields in the Desert: How John Lennon Won his War

The true-but-little-known story of how John Lennon came to compose one of the most iconic songs ever written: "Strawberry Fields Forever"

In Autumn 1966, following the Beatles' retirement from touring amid global controversy, John Lennon found a new part to play, as an actor in Richard Lester's film How I Won the War. This took him to Almería, in southeastern Spain, where he wrote and recorded the first demos of the legendary song "Strawberry Fields Forever."

But how would this Spanish provin...