I read the news today, oh boy : the short and gilded life of Tara Browne, the man who inspired The Beatles greatest song /
AUTOBIOGRAPHY: GENERAL. Few people rode the popular wave of the sixties quite like Tara Browne. One of Swinging London's most popular faces, he lived fast, died young and was immortalized for ever in the opening lines of 'A Day in the Life', a song that many critics still regard as Th...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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London :
Picador, an imprint of Pan Macmillan,
2016
London Picador, 2016 |
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| Summary: | AUTOBIOGRAPHY: GENERAL. Few people rode the popular wave of the sixties quite like Tara Browne. One of Swinging London's most popular faces, he lived fast, died young and was immortalized for ever in the opening lines of 'A Day in the Life', a song that many critics still regard as The Beatles' finest. But who was John Lennon's lucky man who made the grade and then blew his mind out in a car? Author Paul Howard has pieced together the extraordinary story of a young Irishman who epitomized the spirit of the times: racing car driver, Vogue model, friend of The Rolling Stones, style icon, son of a peer, heir to a Guinness fortune and the man who turned Paul McCartney on to LSD. I Read the News Today, Oh Boy is the story of a child born into Ireland's dwindling aristocracy, who spent his early years in an ancient castle in County Mayo, and who arrived in London just as it was becoming the most exciting city on the planet |
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| Physical Description: | 376 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm 376 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some colour) ; portraits ; 25 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 307-360) and index |
| ISBN: | 1509800034 1509814957 (hbk) 1509814957 9781509800032 9781509814954 (hbk) 9781509814954 |