The Beatles - A Day In The Life [HD]

"A Day in the Life" is a song by the The Beatles, the final track on the group's 1967 album Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band.

Credited to Lennon/McCartney, the song comprises distinct segments written independently by John Lennon and Paul McCartney, with orchestral additions.

While Lennon's lyrics were inspired by contemporary newspaper articles, McCartney's were reminiscent of his youth. The decisions to link sections of the song with orchestral crescendos and to end the song with a sustained piano chord were made only after the rest of the song had been recorded.

The supposed drug reference in the line "I'd love to turn you on" resulted in the song initially being banned from broadcast by the BBC.

In 2004, Rolling Stone ranked "A Day in the Life" at number 26 on the magazine's list of the 500 Greatest Songs of All Time.

Since its original album release, "A Day in the Life" has been released as a B-side, and also on various compilation albums. It has been covered by other artists including Bobby Darin, Neil Young, Jeff Beck, The Bee Gees, Phish and since 2008, by McCartney in his live performances.

There is some dispute about the inspiration for the first verse. Many believe that it was written with regard to the death of Tara Browne, the 21-year-old heir to the Guinness fortune and close friend of Lennon and McCartney, who had crashed his Lotus Elan on 18 December 1966 when a Volkswagen pulled out of a side street into his path in Redcliffe Gardens, Earls Court.

In numerous interviews, Lennon claimed this was the verse's prime inspiration. However, George Martin believes that it is a drug reference (as is the line "I'd love to turn you on" and other passages from the song) and while writing the lyrics Lennon and McCartney were imagining a stoned politician who had stopped at a set of traffic lights.

The description of the accident in "A Day in the Life" was not a literal description of Browne's fatal accident.

Lennon said, "I didn't copy the accident. Tara didn't blow his mind out, but it was in my mind when I was writing that verse. The details of the accident in the song — not noticing traffic lights and a crowd forming at the scene — were similarly part of the fiction."

The final verse was inspired by an article in the Daily Mail in January 1967 regarding a substantial number of potholes in Blackburn, a town in Lancashire.

However, he had a problem with the words of the final verse, not being able to think of how to connect "Now they know how many holes it takes to" and "the Albert Hall". His friend Terry Doran suggested that they would "fill" the Albert Hall.

McCartney provided the fourth verse of the song, a short piano piece he had been working on independently, with lyrics about a commuter whose uneventful morning routine leads him to drift off into a dream.

He had written the piece as a wistful recollection of his younger years, which included riding the bus to school, smoking, and going to class.

The line "I'd love to turn you on", which concludes both verse sections, was, according to Lennon, also contributed by McCartney; Lennon said "I had the bulk of the song and the words, but he contributed this little lick floating around in his head that he couldn't use for anything."

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[natedog1927]

if i could go back any day i would go and take those bullets for john

[vsriv911]

the ahhh ahhs just take me to Strawberry fields

[TheM00ingSheep]

Paul is dead

[ThereallifeofJSK]

Time travel machine for natedog1927!

[tetedepoulet]

@natedog1927 Wow.

[onemeg]

Masterpiece.

[AJ74ever]

Thanks, HDBeatles, for posting this. Fantastic sound and video quality-- and a great music video for this song, in my opinion! Does anyone know who composed this video?

[matias1962]

@partridgefam1970 yes, y 1:44 keith richards

[YesThisIsNatalie]

how can you dislike this song? fuck those 4 people don't know anything about real music. They must be Justin Bieber fans *gag*

[Multimusicfan1997]

4 people blew their minds out in a car.

[Rollup96]

The most beautiful song in the world!! The Beatles are the best singers in the world :D

[dumbangel75]

A Day In The Life and I've Got A Feeling are Lennon and McCartney's best collaberations IMHO.