In the 60s The Beatles threw away the rule book. They were used to writing catchy #1 hits but with today’s brilliant concept album Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, they shattered the boundaries of song arrangement and forever changed the art of recorded music. And during the time they were creating this masterpiece they were in a race with another progressive band the Beach Boys, with a goal to create the greatest record ever. And it was only recorded on a 4-track machine. The last cut on their ground-breaking record A Day in the Life was a mind-altering composition inspired by the death of a notorious socialite, and may have invented a whole new genre… it had an accidental bridge that started out as its own song and only meant to be filler but in this song it became a revelation. A Day in the Life would’ve been a surefire #1 hit, but the Beatles never put it out. But it was so exceptional it put them in a class all their own and became the greatest album closer ever. We raise the curtain on this fantastic voyage across the perils of stone-cold realism.. and the fantasy of lysergic imagination….NEXT on Professor of Rock."
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It’s time for Another Edition of #1 in our hearts where we honor a song that should’ve been a #1 hit. This one is a no-brainer… It changed everything by the greatest band of their time…
It began with the title “In the Life of..” and evolved into “A Day in the Life,” a track by The Beatles, acclaimed as an avant-garde masterpiece. The impetus of the song came from John Lennon's random perusing of the British newspaper the Daily Mail, when he learned of the death of his friend- Tara Browne- leading to the first line of the song- “I read the news today..oh boy. John Lennon and Paul McCartney, the co-authors of “A Day in the Life” knew Browne very well. He was the 21-year-old heir of the Guinness fortune, the popular Irish stout beer brand.
Browne was constantly in the tabloids, labeled a “spoiled rich kid” from the swinging London counter-culture of the 60s, who spent lavishly on wild parties. Browne once hired the band the Lovin Spoonful for over a thousand pounds to play a private concert- just for him. His most infamous party was the celebration of his 21st birthday, held at his parents' manor in the Wicklow Mountains.
Browne paid for private jets to fly all 200 of his guests to the party, including celebrities like Michael Caine, Peter Sellers, Mick Jagger, Brian Jones, and Paul McCartney who ended up not being able to attend because The Beatles were recording at Abby Road. It’s been widely documented that Browne was the person who convinced Paul to take LSD for the first time.
Even though John, George, and Ringo had been regularly using LSD, Sir Paul resisted the baiting of his bandmates for a long time, before succumbing to the peer pressure of Tara Browne. On December 17, 1966, Browne was driving on the streets of London in his Lotus Elan sports car with his girlfriend, model Suki Potier.