Released in 1968 in the Zombies’ second album “Odyssey and Oracle,” the song “Beechwood Park” was written by Chris White, the bassist of the group. White remembers the bona fide Beechwood Park from his childhood, specifically driving around the park and “seeing steam rising off the road in the summer after rain.”

The lyrics itself are reminiscing about an inviting past that is long gone, and the music is slightly muddled and hazy, perhaps similar to the memory the singer is trying to uncover. Both in “Beechwood Park” and in 1984, the past is a common and significant motif and it’s memory is muddled. Additionally, the tone of the song is slow and melancholy, like life depicted in Oceania.