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I Read the News Today, Oh Boy - The short and gilded life of Tara Browne, the man who inspired The Beatles' greatest song (Paperback, Main Market Ed.)
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I Read the News Today, Oh Boy - The short and gilded life of Tara Browne, the man who inspired The Beatles' greatest song (Paperback, Main Market Ed.)
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Loot Price R313
Discovery Miles 3 130
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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 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. The Beatles and the
Stones were about to conquer America, Carnaby Street was setting
the style template for the world and rich and poor were rubbing
shoulders in the West End in a new spirit of classlessness. Among
young people, there was a growing sense that they could change the
world. And no one embodied the ephemeral promise of London's
sixties better than Tara Browne. Includes a sixteen-page plate
section of stunning colour photographs.
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