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"A Day in the Life" is the final song on the Beatles' ''Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band'' album. Credited to Lennon–McCartney, the song comprises distinct sections 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 glissandos 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. 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, and since 2008, by McCartney in his live performances. It was ranked the 28th greatest song of all time by ''Rolling Stone'' magazine. On a different list, the magazine ranked it as the greatest Beatles song.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.rollingstone.com/music/lists/100-greatest-beatles-songs-20110919/a-day-in-the-life-19691231 )〕 ==Lyricism== According to Lennon, the inspiration for the first two verses was the death of Tara Browne, the 21-year-old heir to the Guinness fortune who had crashed his Lotus Elan on 18 December 1966 in Redcliffe Gardens, Earls Court. Browne had been a friend of Lennon and McCartney, and had, earlier in 1966, instigated McCartney's first experience with LSD. Lennon's verses were adapted from a story in the 17 January 1967 edition of the ''Daily Mail'', which reported the ruling on a custody action over Browne's two young children: "I didn't copy the accident," Lennon said. "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." McCartney expounded on the subject: "The verse about the politician blowing his mind out in a car we wrote together. It has been attributed to Tara Browne, the Guinness heir, which I don't believe is the case, certainly as we were writing it, I was not attributing it to Tara in my head. In John's head it might have been. In my head I was imagining a politician bombed out on drugs who'd stopped at some traffic lights and didn't notice that the lights had changed. The 'blew his mind' was purely a drugs reference, nothing to do with a car crash." Author Neil Sinyard attributed the third verse line "The English Army had just won the war" to Lennon's role in the film ''How I Won the War'', released on 18 October 1967, but having filmed his part in September 1966: "It's hard to think of (verse ) ... without automatically associating it with Richard Lester's film." In the authorized biography ''Many Years from Now'', McCartney said about the line "I'd love to turn you on", which concludes both verse sections, "This was the time of Tim Leary's 'Turn on, tune in, drop out' and we wrote, 'I'd love to turn you on.' John and I gave each other a knowing look: 'Uh-huh, it's a drug song. You know that, don't you?'." Lennon on composing the song with McCartney: McCartney provided the middle section 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. McCartney had written the piece as a wistful recollection of his younger years, which included riding the bus to school, smoking, and going to class. This theme matched with the original concept of the album which was going to be about their youth. Lennon wrote the song's final verse inspired by a ''Far & Near'' news brief, in the same 17 January edition of the ''Daily Mail'' that had inspired the first two verses. Under the headline "The holes in our roads", the brief stated: The story had been sold to the ''Daily Mail'' in Manchester by Ron Kennedy of the Star News agency in Blackburn. Ron had noticed a ''Lancashire Evening Telegraph'' story about road excavations and in a telephone call to the Borough Engineer's department had checked the now famous annual number of holes in the road. Lennon had a problem with the words of the final verse, however, 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, managing director of Apple, suggested that they would "fill" the Albert Hall. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「A Day in the Life」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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