"living is easy with eyes closed"...

In memory of John Lennon, I listened to the song "Strawberry Fields Forever."  It's unique, like all of the Beatles' songs.

        The whole song is in my head - I can remember it, and hear it in my mind while I'm at work, or anytime.

And I never even had the album it was on.

I'm not sure where I heard it.

On WBCN radio station in Boston, probably, when I was there, going to school.

        In the summer between my freshman and sophomore years at Boston University, I lived with a roommate in an apartment we sublet in Cambridge, a few blocks away from Central Square.

        The apartment was rented during the school year by two guys, and their stereo and a big collection of record albums were there, available for our use.

        My roommate, a friend from the Boston U. dorm where I lived freshman year, was very snobbish about stereos.  None was good enough.  

        I thought the stereo in our sublet apartment was fine, I could hear the music, and boy, did those guys have albums!  A whole wall-full of them, lined up on the floor.  The Beatles, Canned Heat, Hot Tuna, Country Joe and the Fish ... This location might also have been a source for me to hear "Strawberry Fields Forever"....

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