If you are under 60, you have probably heard the line “I read the news today, Oh Boy” before meeting The song he opens. Even after discovering Beatles workIt may have taken you a little time to understand what John Lennon read in the news. The “Lucky Man who made the rank” and “brought his mind in a car” to have been inspired by the heir Young Guinness Tara Browne, who had fatally destroyed in his Lotus Elan. The figure of 4,000 holes on the Blackburn roads came from another page of the same edition of the Daily mail. These are only two of the memorable images in “A Day in the Life”, which rebuilds the fabric of nineteen years as the Beatles knew.
In His new video belowEvan Puschak, better known as Nerdwritercalls “a day in life” “undoubtedly the best Beatles song”. The critic Ian Macdonald is a little less ambiguous in his book Revolution in the head: Beatles records and the 1960sproclaiming it “their best success”.
And if only one factor has shaped its development, this factor was LSD. “A song on perception -a central subject both to the end of the end of the period and to the counter -culture as a whole -” a day in life “concerned” reality insofar as it was revealed by the LSD as being largely in the eye of the spectator, “he wrote. Lennon may have proven to be the most devoted enthusiast of the group of this shortcut towards illumination. It should be noted, as Puschak does, that it was Browne who first “excited” Paul McCartney.
Although John's work, “a day in life”, would not be what it is without the double-time bridge of Paul, whose yellowed narrative order makes the verses all the more transcendent. The need for a kind of transition between these disparate parties John and Paul led to George MartinThe commissioning of an orchestra of 40 pieces asked to play the lower notes at the highest, a collective quadrupled of Glissando and mixed to resemble the end of the world. In theory, perhaps, all that – say nothing about the references of Lennon to the Albert Hall, to the Chamber of Lords and to his own role in Richard Lester How I won the war – shouldn't work together. But the result, as Macdonald says, remains one of the “most penetrating and innovative artistic reflections of his time”, as experienced by young men standing at his center.
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