The Beatles filming the Strawberry Fields Forever
The promotional film for “Penny Lane” was, together with the video for “Strawberry Fields Forever”, one of the first examples of what later became known as a music video. The music video for the song was not filmed at Penny Lane, as the Beatles were reluctant to travel to Liverpool. Street scenes were filmed in and around Angel Lane in London’s East End. The broken sequence of Lennon walking alone was filmed on the King’s Road (at Markham Square) in Chelsea. The outdoor scenes were filmed at Knole Park in Sevenoaks on 30 January 1967. The promotional film for “Strawberry Fields Forever” was also shot at the same location, during the same visit. Both films – directed by the Swede Peter Goldmann – were selected by New York’s MoMA to be among the most influential promotional music films of the late 1960s. Film of “Penny Lane” and the nearby road Elm Hall Drive was included – with some scenes of green Liverpool buses and a brief overhead view of the bus shelter – but none of the Beatles attended this part of the filming. The promo film is included in the Beatles’ 2015 video compilation
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The Strawberry Fields video was filmed behind Knole, just outside the wall. The tree was dead when the video was filmed and is no longer there. I told my son about visiting the spot, and that there was a slight hole in the ground where the tree was. He said, “I’ll bet you took a picture of the hole.” I did.
who in their right mind decided to remove it!
It was destroyed by a storm in 1987.