Tuesday, November 01, 2016

Tara Browne: the James Dean of Sixties London who inspired The Beatles


Doomed youth: Tara Browne with wife Nicki in 1966
Doomed youth: Tara Browne with wife Nicki in 1966 Credit: Willy Rizzo/Gentlemen’s Quarterly, 1966 © Condé Nast 

Keiron Pim reviews a biography of the Guinness heir whose early death in a sports car crash inspired the Beatles’ A Day in the Life
In Swinging London, most figures of significance inhabited one circle – art, pop, criminality or aristocracy – but intersected with others. Tara Browne was no exception. He was of the seventh generation of the Guinness brewing family: in the snobbish parlance of the upper classes, they were “trade”; and in the playwright Brendan Behan’s wry description, “the only English aristocrats who have remained truly Irish”.
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