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7 unusual facts about A Day in the Life


Bambi Meets Godzilla

After the credits, Bambi looks up to see Godzilla's giant foot coming down, squashing him flat (set to the final chord of The Beatles' "A Day in the Life" played at half-speed).

David McCallum, Sr.

In 1967 McCallum was one of 40 musicians assembled to perform on The Beatles' track "A Day in the Life".

Erich Gruenberg

Gruenberg also played on several recordings by The Beatles, including as the lead violinist for the orchestral buildup on "A Day in the Life" and "She's Leaving Home".

Garech Browne

Tara Browne was a young London socialite whose death at age 21 in a car crash in London's West End was immortalised in the song "A Day in the Life" by John Lennon.

Linking and intrusive R

Other recognizable examples are the Beatles singing: "I saw-r-a film today, oh boy" in the song "A Day in the Life", from their 1967 Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band album, at the Sanctus in the Catholic Mass: "Hosanna-r-in the highest" and in the phrases, "Law-r-and order" and "Victoria-r-and Albert Museum".

Michael Taliferro

His first film appearance was in the film Sister Act 2: Back in the Habit in 1993 playing the role of a 'security guard', he had also made appearances in films like Armageddon, Life which starred Eddie Murphy and Martin Lawrence, and Half Past Dead; in 2006, he had completed his appearance Crime/Drama film A Day in the Life, later he had died of a stroke in May.

Tara Browne

According to some sources, he was the inspiration for the Beatles song "A Day in the Life".


Alan Civil

Civil was also part of the orchestra crescendo in the song "A Day in the Life" from the album Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band.

III Sides to Every Story

The use of Abbey Road may be perceived as yet another nod to the Beatles, besides the various lyrical references throughout the album: "Cupid's Dead" quotes a line from "A Day in the Life"; "God Isn't Dead?" quotes "Eleanor Rigby"; and "Rest in Peace" quotes John Lennon's "Give Peace a Chance".


see also

America 24/7

The project was created by Rick Smolan and David Elliot Cohen, the team behind the New York Times #1 Bestseller: A Day in the Life of America.

Ariane de Bonvoisin

She left the corporate world to spend time in Africa working for a nonprofit, and she was a senior advisor on the book A Day in the Life of Africa created by author/editor David Elliot Cohen.

Busters verden

In 1984 Reuter published his collection Tre skuespil ("Three Plays"); a collection containing also En dag i Hector Hansens liv ("A Day in the Life of Hector Hansen") and Kom der lys i neonrøret, gutter? ("Was There Light in the Neon Tube, Boys?") – in addition to Busters Verden.

Call It a Day

Based on the 1935 play Call It a Day by Dodie Smith, the film is about a day in the life of a middle-class London family whose lives are complicated by the first romantic signs of spring.

M61 motorway

This motorway service area was used in the filming of The Services, a pilot episode for the Farnworth-born comedian Peter Kay series That Peter Kay Thing, a spoof documentary of a day in the life of the services staff.

Project Ha Ha

It spans a day in the life of an unusual corporate office building, where stockbrokers must construct a method to dispose of the corpse of a lifeless prostitute, a bored worker becomes involved in hip hop music videos, love songs are graphic, and a xenophobic spy stalks them through the corridors.

Spencer Reece

The title poem describes a day in the life at a store in the Mall of America; Reece had worked for many years as a sales associate at Brooks Brothers in the Mall.

Virus Called The Blues

Virus Called The Blues was a 30 minute documentary spoof based on a day in the life of blues & jazz guitarist/songwriter Billy Jenkins and his band The Blues Collective.