Mike Posted May 8, 2009 Report Share Posted May 8, 2009 A Day In A Life - Songfacts John Lennon: I was reading the paper one day and noticed two stories. I was writing 'A Day In The Life' with the Daily Mail propped in front of me on the piano. One was about the Guinness heir who killed himself in a car. That was the main headline story. He died in London in a car crash. On the next page was a story about four thousand potholes in the streets of Blackburn, Lancashire, that needed to be filled. "I didn't copy the accident. Tara didn't blow his mind out. But it was in my mind when I was writing that verse." Tara Browne was the son of Lord and Lady Oranmore and Browne, whose great-grandfather was the brewer Edward Guinness. Tara went to Eton and, had he lived, would have inherited 1,000,000 at the age of twenty-five. A charming, likeable boy, with a wide grin and his hair brushed forward in a Beatle cut, he was a great friend of Brian Jones and often stayed overnight tripping on LSD with Brian, Keith Richards and Anita Pallenberg at Brian's flat in Courtfield Road. In the book Shutters and Blinds Anita described one trip with him: 'I remember being with Tara Browne on one of the first acid trips. He had a Lotus sportscar and suddenly near Sloane Square everything went red. The lights went red, the trees were flaming and we just jumped out of the car and left it there.' Tara died in the early hours of the morning of 18 December 1966, while on his way to visit David Vaughan, who was painting a design on the front of Tara's Kings Road shop Dandy Fashions. He smashed his Lotus Elan into the back of a parked van while swerving to avoid a Volkswagen which had pulled out in his path in Redcliffe Gardens in Earls Court. He was twenty-one. The coroner's report on his death was issued in January 1967. The final verse was inspired by an article in the Daily Mail in January 1967 regarding a substantial amount of potholes in Blackburn, a town in Lancashire. However, he had a problem with the words of the final verse, not being able to think of how to connect "Now they know how many holes it takes to" and "the Albert Hall". His friend Terry Doran suggested that they would "fill" the Albert Hall. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
edna Posted May 9, 2009 Report Share Posted May 9, 2009 Browne was maried to Noreen McSherry and had two young sons called Dorian and Julian. His brother Garech is a founding member of The Chieftains. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vividmx Posted August 22, 2009 Report Share Posted August 22, 2009 cool thanks a lot! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
forever710 Posted February 26, 2011 Report Share Posted February 26, 2011 This is my first time i visit here. I found so many entertaining stuff in your forum especially its discussion. From the tons of comments on your articles, I guess I am not the only one having all the enjoyment here! Keep up the excellent work.. ---------------------------------------------------- Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MuzikTyme Posted April 24, 2011 Report Share Posted April 24, 2011 Allow me, forever710, to welcome you to these boards. Allow me also to say that you've a similar writing style as I do, too. Keep posting! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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