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27%OFFPaul Howard - I Read the News Today, Oh Boy: The short and gilded life of Tara Browne, the man who inspired The Beatles´ greatest song - 9781509800049 - 9781509800049
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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

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Description for I Read the News Today, Oh Boy: The short and gilded life of Tara Browne, the man who inspired The Beatles´ greatest song Paperback. Num Pages: 384 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 1DBR; 3JJPG; AVGP; AVH; BGF; JFCA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130. .
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 ... Read more

Product Details

Publisher
Pan Macmillan
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
Number of Pages
384
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781509800049
SKU
9781509800049
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About Paul Howard
Paul Howard is a multi-award-winning journalist, author, playwright and comedy writer. He is best known in his native Ireland as the creator of Ross O'Carroll-Kelly, a fictional rugby jock and the star of a series of books that have sold well over one million copies in Ireland. He is a former Irish Sports Journalist of the Year, an Irish Newspaper ... Read more

Reviews for I Read the News Today, Oh Boy: The short and gilded life of Tara Browne, the man who inspired The Beatles´ greatest song
The devastating crash that killed him has become near folkloric, not least because of the Beatles song that is the title of this book. But for many people who read the news that day, Tara is alive and golden, beautiful and poetic, somewhere deep in their hearts today
Spectator
A compelling, sympathetic and unusually poignant book about someone ... Read more

Goodreads reviews for I Read the News Today, Oh Boy: The short and gilded life of Tara Browne, the man who inspired The Beatles´ greatest song


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