In my head I was imagining a politician bombed out on drugs who'd stopped at some traffic lights and didn't notice that the lights had changed. It has been attributed to Tara Browne, the Guinness heir, which I don't believe is the case, certainly as we were writing it, I was not attributing it to Tara in my head. The details of the accident in the song – not noticing traffic lights and a crowd forming at the scene – were similarly part of the fiction." McCartney expounded on the subject: "The verse about the politician blowing his mind out in a car we wrote together. "Tara didn't blow his mind out, but it was in my mind when I was writing that verse. "I didn't copy the accident," Lennon said.
Lennon adapted the song's verse lyrics from a story in the 17 January 1967 edition of the Daily Mail, which reported the ruling on a custody action over Browne's two young children.ĭuring a writing session at McCartney's house in north London, Lennon and McCartney fine-tuned the lyrics, using an approach that author Howard Sounes likens to the cut-up technique popularised by William S. Browne was a friend of Lennon and McCartney, and had instigated McCartney's first experience with LSD. According to Lennon, the inspiration for the first two verses was the death of Tara Browne, the 21-year-old heir to the Guinness fortune who had crashed his car on 18 December 1966. Music critic Tim Riley says that in "A Day in the Life", Lennon uses the same lyrical device introduced in " Strawberry Fields Forever", whereby free-form lyrics allow a greater freedom of expression and create a "supernatural calm". Pepper and to Lennon and McCartney returning to a level of collaboration that had been absent for several years. This experience contributed to the Beatles' willingness to experiment on Sgt. Having long resisted Lennon and George Harrison's insistence that he join them and Ringo Starr in trying LSD, McCartney took it for the first time in late 1966. He said "Should we do this?" "Yeah, let's do that." Īccording to author Ian MacDonald, "A Day in the Life" was strongly informed by Lennon's LSD-inspired revelations, in that the song "concerned 'reality' only to the extent that this had been revealed by LSD to be largely in the eye of the beholder". So we were doing it in his room with the piano. He was a bit shy about it because I think he thought it's already a good song. The way we wrote a lot of the time: you'd write the good bit, the part that was easy, like "I read the news today" or whatever it was, then when you got stuck or whenever it got hard, instead of carrying on, you just drop it then we would meet each other, and I would sing half, and he would be inspired to write the next bit and vice versa. Paul and I were definitely working together, especially on "A Day in the Life". In a 1970 interview, Lennon discussed their collaboration on the song: Soon afterwards, he presented the song to Paul McCartney, who contributed a middle-eight section. John Lennon wrote the melody and most of the lyrics to the verses of "A Day in the Life" in mid-January 1967.
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