Can anybody tell me The Beatles A Day in the Life and I Am the Walrus are about?
“A Day in the Life” is somewhat about the death of Tara Browne, heir to the Guinness fortune. He read about it in a newspaper one morning. The details in the song do not match what really happened at the accident scene. Originally it was to be two different songs, one by Lennon, the other McCartney. The McCartney song is embedded in the middle. “I am the Walrus” is loosely based around Lewis Carrol’s “The Walrus and the Carpenter”. Mostly it contains nonsensical lyrics. I remember an interview where Lennon finally figured out the Walrus was the bad guy in the Carrol poem. Duh. Poor John, you took waaaaay too many drugs. But credit to him…at least he read it. No one I meet reads anything like that anymore. Both songs supposedly had “clues” lending to the whole idiocy that Paul was dead. Sounds like an excellent marketing gimmick to me; wish I thought of it.