John Lennon Instagram – A DAY IN THE LIFE. 🔵 It was a good piece of work between Paul and I. I had the ‘I read the news today’ – all that bit. And it turned him on, you know. Because now and then we really turn each other on with a bit of a song. It just sort of happened beautifully. And we arranged it and rehearsed it – which we don’t often do – the afternoon before, so we all knew what we were playing. And we just all got into it. And it was a real groove, you know, the whole scene, on that one. It had two stories. One was (Tara Brown) the Guinness child that killed himself in a car. That was the main headline story. And on the next page there were about four thousand holes in Blackburn, Lancashire. It was (written) in Kenwood, the house in the suburbs. I’m on the piano and the TV is going, over in the corner, flickering. And I was just looking for inspiration and I looked down. Do you know those kinds of sections they have in newspapers of top different things that happened? They had about four thousand holes in Blackburn, Lancashire – a real story that the council had spent real money. The bulk of the song was written entirely by me. Paul’s contribution being that little beautiful little lick going into his song, ‘I’d love to turn you on’ – that melodic little piece there where it changes – is his contribution. It came to a where I needed a middle eight, but, you know, that would have been forcing it. All the rest had come out smooth, flowing, no trouble. And to write a middle eight would have been to write a middle eight. We got into ‘how about putting a whole different song’ which he already had – that had nothing to do with ‘A Day in the Life’ – which is all about being on the top of the bus in a barber chair. He sang that (middle) bit. He had that one little lick floating around in his head. He couldn’t use it for anything. He stuck it on. And putting those two together was a pre­cursor to the Abbey Road (medley) style, later on. Abbey Road Studios