Paul McCartney has long said John Lennon wrote the first half of The Beatles' classic "A Day in the Life," and he added the second part after the instrumental crescendo. But McCartney now he says he wrote all of it. #BigShow #KBGO #BigClassicHits
Sir Paul McCartney has claimed he wrote A Day in the Life , contradicting previous accounts that it was penned by his late Beatles bandmate John Lennon.
Changing his tune, McCartney now writes in his new book The Lyrics that A Day in The Life actually is about Tara Browne after all. According to The Telegraph, the 79-year-old wrote: “I wrote about him in A Day in the Life: ‘He blew his mind in a car/ he didn’t notice that the lights […]
Macca has given a very different account of the inspiration behind The Beatles song A Day in the Life in a new lyrics book as he reiterates that it was he, not bandmate John Lennon, who penned the track.
Sir Paul McCartney, 79, now seems to support John Lennon s explanation that the song A Day In The Life was actually inspired by a car crash which killed Guinness heir Tara Browne, 21, in 1966.