Heir to the Guinness fortune and London socialite Tara Browne, older brother of Garech Browne, in the words of John Lennon, ‘blew his mind out in a car/he never noticed that the lights had changed’. One of the stalwarts of 1960s London counterculture, he crashed his car at high speed in 1966 and died. He was immortalised in the Beatles’ song ‘A Day in the Life’ and his short and eventful life has now been captured by Paul Howard in the biography I Read the News Today, Oh Boy. Paul talks to radio presenter and bona fide rock star Tom Dunne (Something Happens).
