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Lucy O'Brien, Select, April 1991

YOU HAVE to hand it to them. On first hearing, 'Strawberry Fields Forever' just seemed to be insipid pop, the nadir of the cover version. The original was so tied to its '60s context anyway that a rehash could only be on a superficial level.

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