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It stated that, in his book "Lyrics", Paul wrote that the song was about the death of Tara Browne. No page number was given. I have the book. At no point does Paul write that. |
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During a writing session at McCartney's house in north London, Lennon and McCartney fine-tuned the lyrics, using an approach that author [[Howard Sounes]] likens to the [[cut-up technique]] popularised by [[William S. Burroughs]].{{sfn|Sounes|2010|p=164}} "I didn't copy the accident," Lennon said. "Tara didn't blow his mind out, but it was in my mind when I was writing that verse. The details of the accident in the song{{snd}}not noticing traffic lights and a crowd forming at the scene{{snd}}were similarly part of the fiction."<ref name="The Beatles">{{Cite book|title=The Beatles |last=Davies |first=Hunter |year=1968 |publisher=McGraw-Hill |location=Columbus |isbn=978-0-07-015457-5 |page=357}}</ref> McCartney expounded on the subject: "The verse about the politician blowing his mind out in a car we wrote together. It has been attributed to Tara Browne, the Guinness heir, which I don't believe is the case, certainly as we were writing it, I was not attributing it to Tara in my head. In John's head it might have been. In my head I was imagining a politician bombed out on drugs who'd stopped at some traffic lights and didn't notice that the lights had changed. The 'blew his mind' was purely a drugs reference, nothing to do with a car crash."{{sfn|Miles|1997|p=324}}
==="4,000 holes"===
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