This Record Changed My Life: Wayne Coyne

by Wayne Coyne

I was very lucky that my older brothers all listened to The Beatles and stuff like that. The defining record that I can say still affects me now and affected me when I was eight years old was The Beatles’Strawberry Fields Forever.

That line that John Lennon says at the end, where back in the day we thought he said “I buried Paul” [Lennon actually said ’cranberry sauce’ – a piece of nonsense word-play], I still hear that, even though I know it’s not true. It still evokes these things.

My brothers and my sister and the rest of us were sitting around thinking Paul McCartney was dead, and how wonderful and weird and disturbing it was that John Lennon sang a song about it.