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‘A Day in the Life’ Referenced The Fatal Car Accident Of A Famous Swinging London Socialite
I read the news today, oh boy About a lucky man who made the grade And though the news was rather sad Well, I just had to laugh I saw the photograph He blew his mind out in a car He didn’t notice that the lights had changed
So begins what some consider the Beatles’ greatest song of all, the John Lennon/Paul McCartney collaboration “A Day in the Life.” It turns out that the “lucky man who made the grade” wasn’t just a figment of Lennon’s imagination. He was 21-year-old Guinness heir Tara Browne, a fixture of the Swinging London scene, who fatally crashed his Lotus sports car in December 1966.
Lennon was quite literally “reading the news today” when he saw the story about Browne’s accident:
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