I Read the News Today, Oh Boy - Paul-Howard
The short and gilded life of Tara Browne, the man who inspired The Beatles' greatest song
KORTE INHOUD
He was the quintessential young fop, often seen wandering around the streets alone, eating caviar from a jar with his finger.'Tara Browne was an extraordinary, glamorous figure for a brief moment. He grew up in aristocratic and bohemian luxury (his mother was a Guinness heiress); he walked out of school at eleven and never went back; he moved to Paris, where he knew the backstreet jazz bars like a local. At seventeen, he arrived in London, just as the Sixties were beginning to swing, and became part of a new elite cultural world. His friends included, of course, the Beatles and the Stones, as well as figures from film, fashion, photography and high society, and a few more dubious sorts on the fringes of the criminal and low-life worlds.Tara Browne died tragically young, at twenty-one, and became a symbol of the loss of innocence of this era of optimism. His widow Nicki (he managed a marriage, a family and a separation in this short life) said, 'Tara was the 1960s. He was what it was supposed to be about, whic...
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2016, 376pp. Nette hardcover met stofomslag. Met twee fotokaternen. [Auteur: Howard, Paul] [Taal: en] [Uitgever: PICADOR] [Jaar: 2016] [Titel: I Read the News Today, Oh Boy]
