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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, which was optimism and happiness and living without a thought for tomorrow. And he died before it all turned bad - which is why, I think, so many people like to remember him. Because remembering Tara is remembering the 1960s while we were all still so innocent.'Bestselling Irish author Paul Howard has interviewed more than one hundred people who knew Tara Browne, including his widow Nicki and his brother Garech, to piece together the extraordinary story of his life and produce I Read the News Today, Oh Boy, the first full biography of a man like no other. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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An heir to the Guinness fortune, Tara was raised by his beautiful and wealthy mother Oonagh in her Irish hideaway, travelling Europe and America with her, before settling in London just in time to embody the Swinging Sixties. He loved fast cars, beautiful women, famous friends, good clothes, drink and drugs. According to one friend, Tara 'had this quality about him - it was as if he'd already lived several lives before he got to you'. His personality, once past his family history, certainly leaps off the page, along with the spirit of the 60s. He fell in with Paul McCartney and the equally tragic Brian Jones of the Rolling Stones before he died, which I think is why he so perfectly describes the decade and the city he made his own: 'The day that Tara died was the end of the Sixties,' says another friend, 'His death was the point from which things started to go bad.'
A fascinating story about the man nobody remembers behind the song everybody knows. ( )