TARA BROWNE
Tara Browne (4 March 1945 – 18 December 1966) was a young London socialite and heir to the Guinness fortune. According to some sources, his death was the inspiration for the Beatles song “A Day in the Life”. (More from Wikipedia)
The impetus for “A Day in the Life” though was the death of a childhood friend of both John Lennon and Paul McCartney, Tara Browne; Browne, an heir to the Guinness fortune, had died in an auto accident in 1966 when he was 21 years old. An article in the Daily Mail the same day as the “hole” article talked about a custody matter regarding his two children. Wikipedia quoted Lennon about this part of the song: “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. 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.”
(June 2015)
