McCartney Times

For many fans, ‘A Day in the Life’ is the pinnacle of The Beatles. It is the moment when the fevered experimentation of Sgt. Peppers culminated in the masterpiece of a purified product of pure musical alchemy. The epic track is a menagerie of interwoven news articles. The song functions as a front to back rock opera of a slow news day, with John Lennon perusing current events, of varying degrees of importance, and transposing them into song while the rather more measured Paul McCartney provided a conventional middle section.

The first story to take Lennon’s interest in the chronology of the lyrics is hilariously played up by The Beatles with melodramatic intent. The following extract from the very article that Lennon may well have read is somehow banal to the point of being paradoxically mind-bending like the so-called ‘satisfying’ videos we now see everywhere on social media.

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