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Post by JoJo on Apr 23, 2007 16:18:02 GMT -5
I don't think Tara Browne had any connection other then the song lyrics. That's just my opinion. Well not exactly, That Paul and Tara were friends seems to be no secret. Link to WikipediaMcCartney was involved in a moped crash on December 26, 1965, which resulted in the scar on his lip that can be seen on promotional videos for the "Paperback Writer"/"Rain" single, made shortly after the crash, in May 1966. According to McCartney, his desire to hide the scar on his lip was the impetus to grow a moustache; at about the same time the other three Beatles grew moustaches as well—in time for Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band.
At the time of his 1965 moped crash, McCartney was riding along with Tara Browne, a Guinness heir. Browne was killed a year later in a car crash, and it is this incident that is the source of the "He blew his mind out in a car" line in "A Day In The Life"[citation needed].I know where the info that he was with Tara comes from, the companion book to the Beatles 'Anthology'. (convenient excuse for the mustache btw) I also read on a random web page recently that Tara hung around during the Revolver sessions. "Some random web page" is hardly conclusive I know, but anyone with any photos from that, please take another look! And finally, this enigmatic piece of art from Sir Paul titled 'Tara's Plastic Skirt' (He stated he meant Tara Browne)  |
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Post by sadiewestbrooke on Apr 23, 2007 20:41:10 GMT -5
I don't think Tara Browne had any connection other then the song lyrics. That's just my opinion. Well not exactly, That Paul and Tara were friends seems to be no secret. Link to WikipediaMcCartney was involved in a moped crash on December 26, 1965, which resulted in the scar on his lip that can be seen on promotional videos for the "Paperback Writer"/"Rain" single, made shortly after the crash, in May 1966. According to McCartney, his desire to hide the scar on his lip was the impetus to grow a moustache; at about the same time the other three Beatles grew moustaches as well—in time for Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band.
At the time of his 1965 moped crash, McCartney was riding along with Tara Browne, a Guinness heir. Browne was killed a year later in a car crash, and it is this incident that is the source of the "He blew his mind out in a car" line in "A Day In The Life"[citation needed].I know where the info that he was with Tara comes from, the companion book to the Beatles 'Anthology'. (convenient excuse for the mustache btw) I also read on a random web page recently that Tara hung around during the Revolver sessions. "Some random web page" is hardly conclusive I know, but anyone with any photos from that, please take another look! And finally, this enigmatic piece of art from Sir Paul titled 'Tara's Plastic Skirt' (He stated he meant Tara Browne) Okay thanks for replying and clearing that up to me I kinda knew they were friends but I think what i'm trying to say is that I don't think Tara Browne replaced Paul. |
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Post by beatlies on Apr 25, 2007 10:50:23 GMT -5
Tara Browne as Fingo as Frank Zappa in the 1971 trailer for "200 Motels": www.youtube.com/watch?v=SfZrNLipVmk&mode=related&search=Reminds you of the Monkees Zappa-Nesmith identity switching. invanddis.proboards29.com/index.cgi?board=general&action=display&thread=1143631064Monkees Ditty Diego - War Chant lyrics Hey now wait a minute! Now wait just a minute! Hey hey we are the Monkees You know we love to please A manufactured image With no philosophies We hope you like our story Although there isn't one That is to say there's many That way there is more fun You told us you like action And games of many kinds You like to dance, we like to sing So let's all lose our minds! We know it doesn't matter, Cause what you came to see Is what we'd love to give you, And give it one, two, three! But there may come three, two, one, two Or jump from nine to five, And when you see the end in sight The beginning may arrive! For those who look for meaning, And form as they do facts, We might tell you one thing But we'd only take it back Not back like in a box back Not back like in a race, Not back so we can keep it, But back in time and space! You say we're manufactured, To that we all agree, So make you choice and we'll rejoice In never being free! Hey hey we are the Monkees, We've said it all before The money's in we're made of tin We're here to give you more! The money's in we're made of tin We're here to give you-- *BANG!!* *SCREAM!!!* GIMME A W! W! GIMME AN A! A! GIMME AN R!! R!! WHAT DOES THAT SPELL!!?? WAR!! |
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Post by beatlies on May 22, 2007 14:16:07 GMT -5
Today is June 18, 2005. Its Paul McCartney's birthday, he would have been 63IF. As for the other guy, the question is will we still need him, will we still feed him, when he's "64"? For the record, I was the first one to post anything about Tara Browne. Two years ago, I came across the photo of a smashed Lotus Elan and its caption mentioned TB. I had no clue who he was--never heard of him, never saw him before. However, when I looked at his face, then compared it to Sir Paul McCartney, I thought there was enough of a resemblance to warrent further investigation. On the old forum, I posted the two black and white photos along with a few pics of Sir Paul to mixed reactions. Uberkinder made a single image fade, also to mixed reviews. It must have been Uberkinder, also, whose PID e-mail to the Coast to Coast show made mention of TB, but Gary Patterson immediately poo-pooed the idea. SunKing denounced any investigation into Tara Browne as "Way off base!", essentially pushing everyone off the TB track and down the "Bill Shepherd" track. It quickly became obvious that two lonely photos of Tara Browne just wouldn't convince anyone, so I had to get creative. It has taken me this long to gather enough material together to make a definitive determination on TB.  I have a bunch of images which ought to make you wonder. The last one might possibly be photo of Brian Epstein from 1972--it's a real doozy! Thanks. The double-headed eagle on the Tara Browne tombstone matches the double-headed eagle that can be seen as a mirror-picture hidden in the flowers on the Sgt. Pepper cover. |
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Post by Jai Guru Deva on Jul 10, 2007 0:52:03 GMT -5
Okay Beatlies, you've hit upon something which I was kind of reluctant to get into because it leads us off into a different direction and that is the symbolism of the double-headed eagle. It's been used by many empires: the Hittites, the Turks, the Romans, Russia, and Germany (used by Hitler). It also is a masonic symbol of the Scottish Rite of Freemasonry. (If you look around you can find more illustrations of a black eagle or bird by members of the Beatles).BTW, Tara Browne's father Dominick Browne was the longest serving member in the house of Lords (72 years), beginning his tenure in 1927 after his father had died in a car crash in Southborough, Kent. During the 1930's he was sympthetic to the Germans and a supporter of appeasment. And little more information on Tara's first wife Nicky that I just found out. She was an Irish farmer's daughter, and she and Tara secretly got married in France in 1963. ___________________________________________________________________________ Also, Sally Gray (Dominick Brown's 3rd wife) died last September 24, 2006. LONDON (AP) _ Sally Gray, the spirited, husky-voiced British star of the 1930s and 40s who turned down a lucrative Hollywood contract, died Sept. 24, her family said. She was 90. Gray, who became Lady Oranmore and Browne when she married into the aristocracy, died at her London home. Gray's appearance in two RKO productions in Britain _"The Saint in London"(1939) and"The Saint's Vacation"(1941) _ persuaded the Hollywood studio to offer her a contract. But she turned it down, saying she preferred to stay in England. Born Constance Vera Stevens in north London, Gray trained at the Fay Compton School of Dramatic Art and was spotted by John Gliddon, the agent who discovered Vivien Leigh, at age 18 when she appeared in the chorus of a musical,"Jill Darling,"in 1934. She was soon taking lead roles in musicals, appearing as Miss America in Olympic Honeymoon (1936),"Lightning Conductor"(1938) with Gordon Harker and with Lupino Lane in"Lambeth Walk"(1940). One of her best-known roles was as the cheating wife of a psychiatrist in"Obsession"(1949). www.foxnews.com/wires/2006Oct05/0,4670,Deaths,00.html |
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Post by mommybird on Jul 10, 2007 13:05:30 GMT -5
I was looking at the many photo comparisons that Jai Guru Deva posted at the beginning of this thread. Somehow, I had missed them before this. He did an exemplary job of trying to collaborate his theory.
Personally, I have to say that I don't feel that Bill is Tara Browne. However, I do think that after seeing the resemblances between the Browne family & the "McCartney" family, they might all be related somehow.
Wouldn't it be a trip if they are all cousins ? ;D
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Post by Jai Guru Deva on Apr 19, 2008 0:10:39 GMT -5
Photos added by me and my notes are in brackets.[/]color]SundayTribune - news of Dublin, Ireland Dec. 17, 2006 www.tribune.ie/2006/12/17/80283.html_____________________________________ I HEARD THE NEWS TODAY, OH BOY. . . Paul Howard Who was the man who allegedly 'blew his mind out in a car', in the Beatles' 'A Day In The Life'? Paul Howard visits the ancestral Wicklow home of Tara Browne to uncover the tragic story of an Irish dandy in swinging sixties London On a weekday afternoon in late autumn, the hills around Wicklow have a bleak, otherworldly feel to them. In the grounds of Luggala, the Guinness family's fairytale Gothic mansion, flocks of deer flounce in the russet-streaked fields, while the gentle tide of Lough Tay quietly snakelicks the private little beach. Other than that, the soundlessness is almost palpable. It's as if the world is in suspension. It's here that Tara Browne was laid to rest, under a simple slab that carries his name, the family crest and the two dates that bear out the tragedy of a life cut short. Born in 1945. Died in 1966. Tara Browne was born on March 4, 1945 and died Dec. 18, 1966.Browne . . . a man of independent means, according to his death certificate, and heir to a million-pound fortune . . . was one of the Beautiful People who was drawn to the bright lights and endless possibilities of London just as the '60s were starting to swing. How does it feel to be one of the beautiful people...His privileged background and easy charm earned him an access-all-areas view of the decade that changed the world. With his fair-haired mop-top and halogen-warm smile, he crossed trajectories with most of the artists who gave voice to the era, during his own breakneck journey through life. He was a friend of the Rolling Stones, but especially Brian Jones. He accompanied Paul McCartney on his first LSD trip and sat in on Revolver. He drank with Brendan Behan when he was in London, and, when he was in Paris, was part of the same social circle as Samuel Beckett, Salvador Dali and Jean Cocteau. Okay, where to start... From what I understood, Tara's first experience with LSD came at his 21st birthday party on March 4, 1966.
One book "The Complete Story Of The Beatles' Revolver" by Ray Newman sites Barry Miles's book Many Years From Now as a source (pg. 382) and actually claimes that McCartney's first use of LSD was late in 1966. Newman wrote that it was certainly no later than December 18th, 1966 when Paul had taken it with Tara Browne, who died on that date. And the second time McCartney takes it--Newman claims--is on March 21st, 1967.
In mid–1966, Anita Pallenburg, and her then-boyfriend Mario Schifano hung out with London’s young hip aristocracy. Throughout that summer, Schifano and Pallenberg had stayed at the Chelsea home of Lord Harlech, whose children, Jane, Julian and Victoria Ormsby-Gore, were all obsessed with the Beatles and the Rolling Stones. In the same circle were the art dealer Robert Fraser, the antique dealer Christopher Gibbs, and the Guinness heir, Tara Browne. Marianne Faithful in her autobiography recounts how Tara, Brian, Mick, and Keith would all trip on acid then laze around for the rest of the day.
In August of 1966, Brian Jones and Anita Pallenberg moved to a flat in Courtfield Road, off Brompton Road in Kensington and they would do drugs there. Tara Browne was a great friend of Brian Jones and often stayed overnight tripping on LSD with Brian Jones, Mick Jagger Keith Richards and Anita Pallenberg at Brian's flat in Courtfield Road.
At the International Times launch party at the Roundhouse in London on October 14, 1966--where "Paul McCartney dressed up as an arab"--drugs where prevalent.
So Tara Browne was a user of mind expanding drugs. The night he supposedly died, it's said he drove his Lotus Elan at high speeds through red lights in south kensington, smashing into a van and killing himself while Suki Potier walked away with minor bruises. Whether or not he was tripping at the time is unknown, but John Lennon suggested as much in his song, "A Day in the Life".
On January 7, 1967 members of the Rolling Stones--Mick Jaggar, Keith Richard, Brian Jones, along with art dealer Robert Fraser, and aristocratic friend Christopher Gibbs all gathered at McCartney's home at 7 Cavendish Ave to do hashish. THe have a box which looks like a book that contains hashish to cocaine, heroin and acid. Later that evening, they decide to make it a weekender and head over to Keith Richards placein West Wittering, Sussex. So everyone crammed into Mick's mini cooper, with the exception of Mohammed Chtaibi who drove "Paul McCartney's" mini cooper. Chtaibi crashed the mini and he was mistaken for Paul McCartney.
Tara Browne and artists...
This is true, Tara Browne did indeed meet and mingle with many artists Samuel Beckett, Salvador Dali and Jean Cocteau... Again, art dealer Robert Fraser was a friend of his too.
There's a popular story of how his mother Oonagh had a Magritte painting in her home. The maid tried to "clean it" with a solution and ended up wiping off part of the picture! Anyway, the Guinness family very much valued artwork.By most accounts, he lived his life like a man who knew he hadn't much time. He married young . . . he had two sons . . . and separated young. And then he died young too. On 18 December, 1966 . . . 40 years ago tomorrow . . . he crashed his Lotus Elan into the back of a parked van in Earls Court in London, an accident that inspired one of the Beatles' greatest songs. A month later, John Lennon, who knew him socially, was sitting at his upright piano, with the Daily Mail propped up in front of him, seeking inspiration, as he often did, from the headlines of the day. The News In Brief column contained a report on the inquest into the death of the young socialite, above an item about how Blackburn had become the pothole capital of Britain. Lennon wrote the first line of 'A Day In The Life' . . . "I read the news today, oh, boy, about a lucky man who made the grade" . . . the song that became the haunting denouement to Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band. Singing in a strangely disembodied voice, Lennon places himself at the scene of the accident, as part of a crowd, gawping at the man who "blew his mind out in a car" and wondering about his celebrity. The song is, in part, a commentary on how the media world distorts reality, trivialising death . . . the opening verse has Lennon laughing at the photograph of Browne's mangled white sports car . . . while celebrating trivia, such as the fact that there was one-sixteenth of a pothole for every person living in Blackburn. "I can't remember how I felt the first time I heard the song, " says Garech Browne, Tara's older brother, who founded the Chieftains and is the driving force behind Claddagh Records, the traditional Irish music label. "Curious, I would say. I never met John Lennon, so the pity is I never got to talk to him about it. But I liked the song. I still like it." Garech is sitting in a large drawing room in Luggala, staring into the guttering flames of a big fire. It was here, in these very rooms, in the final months of his life, that Tara celebrated his 21st birthday with a party that had a guest list like that of a royal command performance. Mick Jagger was here. So was John Paul Getty Junior. The band for the evening were the Lovin' Spoonful, who had top 10 UK hits that summer with 'Daydream' and 'Summer In The City'. [Again, to put things in perspective, remember that Tara Brown's birthday is on March 4--and in 1966 that would have been 10 months before his "accident".] A couple of years ago, Garech received a call from Marianne Faithfull, who was writing her autobiography and wanted to mention that famous party. The problem was she couldn't recall a thing about it. As the cliche says, if you can remember the '60s "As a matter of fact, I don't think she was here, " he says. "She was here later on, when she was with Mick and there's a wonderful photograph of them together, at the top of the hill up there. But that's the thing about looking back . . . you wonder sometimes do you really remember things or do you just think they happened because somebody told you they did?" In the book about the authorized biography on the Chieftains, it is mentioned that Marianne Faithfull and members of the Rolling Stones would come to Luggala. In fact, Marianne Faithfull wrote about it in her autobiography.So it was with his younger brother's life. In many ways Lennon's fictionalised account of the accident became bigger than the tragedy of his death and the facts of his life have become obscured by the accretion of myth. His interests, though, were "all the things you already know about", Garech says with a roguish smile. "Food, drink, sex, clothes, speed. Yes, he loved motor racing. In fact he won a big race here in Ireland before he died . . . I think somewhere up around Drogheda . . . which people still talk to me about to this day." Tara and Garech were the sons of Dominick Browne, a hereditary peer who sat in the House of Lords for a record 72 years until his eviction under the British government's reforms of 1999, and Oonagh Guinness, daughter of the brewer Edward Cecil Guinness. The couple divorced in 1950 when Garech was 11 and Tara five (a third son died in infancy) and the boys spent their years flitting between homes in Wicklow, London and Paris, where their mother went to live. How interesting, I didn't know Oohagh had homes in London and Paris (along with Wicklow). And early divorce too, that's something to think about in regard to Tara's relationships with the opposite sex.One of Garech's abiding memories of Tara is of him as a young boy running away from a boarding school in Dublin. "I always thought boarding schools were frightful institutions and I think Tara shared that view . . . if we were meant to be looked after like sheep, we'd have been born sheep. So he ran away and the gardai eventually picked him up in Bray." The information about Tara attending a boarding school is new to me. "I used to get mad at my school... The teachers who taught me weren't cool... You're holding me down, turning me round... Filling me up with your rules..."Tara's old bedroom at Luggala is a shrine to his memory, right down to the flowered wallpaper, which is vintage '60s. On the wall above a small fireplace, there's a portrait of him at 14, with the generous smile that was his trademark. Beside that, there's a photograph of him sitting beside Queen Elizebath, looking as comfortable as you might sitting next to your grandmother. Her majesty's a pretty nice girl but she doesn't have a lot to say
Her majesty's a pretty nice girl but she changes from day to day
I wanna tell her that I love her a lot, but I gotta get a belly full of wine
Her majesty's a pretty nice girl someday I'm gonna make her mine
Oh yeah, someday I'm gonna make her mineThey moved in distinguished circles. Garech has happy memories of what he calls "our Paris life", when they were on first-name terms with Beckett, Cocteau and Dali. "There was a little place opposite where my mother lived that sold the most wonderful caviar, " he remembers. "We didn't always have money but occasionally we'd save up and then splurge. We'd sit outside, eating it." Six years was a big age differential but the brothers found common ground in their love of, not only finest sturgeon roe, but music. "We enjoyed all the theatre operas and one of the great joys we shared was buying recordings of Baroque music, early Vivaldi, etcetera. There was a shop in Venice where we used to go and, as a matter of fact, the proprietor took what is my favourite photograph of Tara, wearing a gondolier shirt." Several accounts of Tara's life have him attending Eton and, later, Oxford, but he attended neither. He was part of a different aristocracy . . . the counter-culture that built up around the art and music scene in a city in the throes of massive social and cultural change. Hey, it's news to me that Tara didn't attend college. Funny, I read a source which said Tara attended Eton and that's where he befriended Robert Frasier. Anyway, he was definitely a part of the London underground.Garech can't recall how his brother got friendly with the Beatles and the Rolling Stones. It might have been through his two businesses, his Lotus dealership or his King's Road clothes shop, Dandy Fashions, though it's more likely their paths first crossed in the Bag O'Nails, the trendy Soho nightclub where they occasionally hung out. Aha--the man from the motor trade!? Anyway, Tara's clothing shop Dandy Fashions on King's Road is something I have known about. Coincidently, it should be noted that the Beatles had two shops. One was their Apple Boutique on 94 Baker St. which the Beatles which was run by "The Fool". The grand opening was on December 4, 1966. But the other shop owned by the Beatles was more of a tailors shop which had actually been Dandy Fashions--Tara Browne's old clothing shop!On October 4, 1966, Dandy Fashions was incorporated by the Beatles. Garech is loath to include drugs in his brother's interests. "I'd seen him smoke marijuana mixed with brandy in a hubblebubble, which he kindly offered to me. I could just about smoke it but my problem was I couldn't inhale. So I didn't enjoy the '60s in the same way as others did. But I wouldn't have said that Tara had a drug life as such." There's no doubt that Tara used them, though. Paul McCartney, in his authorised biography, Many Years From Now, recalled that it was in his Belgravia mews home that he first took LSD, at his friend's suggestion. Many Years From Now is the book that was written by Barry Miles. So now I have read confliction reports on the first time Tara ever took LSD. It was most likely at his 21st birthday party though. But it's hard to confirm whether or not Paul was at the party, although I've never seen his name mentioned. However, I've seen Michael McCartney mentioned though. It seems to me that in Barry Miles's book and others, that one account has been confused with another...
Recently, I was perusing The Beatles: Biography by Bob Spitz. In it, Bob Spitz tells that Tara Brown and Paul McCartney smoked marijuana together, then they decided to head over to Paul's Aunt's house on mopeds, and Paul had his accident where he chipped his tooth. Tara was also a central figure in one of the most bizarre episodes in the story of the Beatles. On St Stephen's Day, 1965, he was celebrating Christmas in McCartney's father's house in Liverpool, when McCartney suggested they ride to his aunt's house on a couple of mopeds they'd rented. According to McCartney, the pair were riding along, marvelling at the size of the moon . . . they'd smoked marijuana, according to several accounts . . . when McCartney crashed, chipping his tooth and cutting his lip. It was this accident that gave rise to the Paul Is Dead conspiracy theory that spread like a contagion in the late 1960s, with fans claiming to find clues as to McCartney's demise in subsequent Beatles album covers and lyrics. Well, there you go! Aha, so it's all because of the moped accident which gave rise to the PID?! Well, if I've heard it once, it heard it a thousand times... Look, there were no rumors of Paul's death after the moped accident, the rumors begin to surface until the late 1966!One crackpot theory suggested that McCartney had been buried in secret and his features transposed onto a body double . . . Tara Browne. But by that time Browne had himself been killed in a real road accident. Suki Potier, his girlfriend, who was travelling in the passenger seat, escaped with bruises and shock. Oh, well isn't this juicy! Now where do you suppose this "crackpot" theory came from? To my knowledge, no one in 40 years has EVER thought to connect Tara Browne with Paul McCartney UNTIL I came up with the theory four years ago when this forum started. It seems to me there are a lot of interesting coincidences or connections that can be made between Tara Browne and "Sir Paul McCartney". Feel free to also review all the photos I've put up as well for comparison sake.
So how might my theory have gotten to an news editor in Dublin, Ireland? Unbeknownst to you all at NIR, I sent out a bunch of letters out to members of the Guinness family (and relatives). Only three people responded, one of those Maureen Guinness's daughter Perditia Blackwood and she wasn't of much help. The other two people were Patrick Guinness and his dad Desmond.
What Patrick wrote to me was the following:
"Dear Mr. XXXXXX
My father Desmond Guinness has passed on your letter of June 2005.
It is apparent to us that Oonagh and her family grieved at the loss of Tara and she was sure that she buried her son - within sight of her home.
If you persist in you theory, the simplest solution will be to compare male DNA samples from some McCartneys and Garech Browne and his brother. Over to you!
Yours,
Patrick Guinness"
Paul Howard's editorial was published on Dec. 18, 2006, so somehow, some way word must have gotten to him about the Tara Browne angle on PID...
Unlike Paul Howard, I don't find Tara's "accident" at all in conflict with PID. Given a four month span from September and December to figure something out, find and coach the new "Paul", I think would have been enough time.
The thing that I found interesting in Patrick's response was that he seemed really carefull about the words he chose. I didn't get the impression that he thought I was wrong, but he was actually kind of supportive of my continuing research. "He was coming to Ireland that day, " Garech remembers. "He was coming for lunch. His children [Dorian and Julian] were here at Luggala with my mother. I was in Dublin and I was going to drive down to meet him. Instead, I had to phone my father at seven o'clock in the morning to tell him his son was dead." The news devastated his father, who had already lost both his mother and father in a car crash. It was not only Lennon who was moved to verse by the tragedy. Sean O'Riada, the Irish composer and bandleader, wrote a song called 'In Memorium Tara Browne', while the Pretty Things . . . guitarist Dick Taylor lived in Redcliffe Gardens, just yards from where the crash took place . . . wrote 'Death of a Socialite', which contained the line, "People, they see you and love you without knowing what your name is. It might be one day or two days but never for always". His death was also one of the primers for an explosive year that almost blew the Stones apart. Brian Jones was already deep in a sinkhole of depression and self-doubt when he heard about his friend's death. The following summer, to escape a number of scandals that had strafed the band, including a drug bust, the Stones headed for Morocco, where Keith Richards famously 'stole' his girlfriend, Anita Pallenberg. Hey, maybe Mohammed Chtaibi the Moroccan had a flat in Casablanca... Chtaibi was the ward of Mark Gilbey, the multimillionaire heir to the Gilbey liquor fortune.  "They took my music, they took my band, now they even took my love, " said Jones, who was already pirouetting towards his own death in 1969. "Whatever was going on in his life, he kept in touch with my mother right until the end, " Garech says. As a further sad postscript to the story, in 1976, Richards and Pallenberg had a son, whom they named Tara, in memory of their late friend, but who . . . as if determined by some terrible karma . . . died from health complications shortly after his birth. Looking back across the span of those 40 years, the biggest tragedy for Garech is that he lost his brother at a time when the age difference between them was beginning to matter less and less. "We did have a lot in common and I suspect that would have increased as we got older. As the older brother, I was very protective of him. But in a strange way, later on, he was very protective of me too. I remember him taking me around the bits of London that I didn't know. A lot in common? Might he mean, for example, something like partaking in a campaign to save Ireland's ancient standing stones or helping to keep us all free of genetically modifed foods? (Both of which Garech Browne and Sir Paul McCartney have done)"So that's what's most upsetting to me. I had one brother who I thought I could always talk to, who would be my relative and pal for life." (A Fine Line)...
Come home brother all is forgiven
We all cried when you were driven away
Come home brother everything is better
Everything is better when you come home and stay
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Post by thisone on Apr 19, 2008 17:58:12 GMT -5
Nice read Jai! I was amazed to read that Suki Potier took up with Brian Jones after Tara Browne's "death" and was there when he died. And that she herself died in a mysterious hit and run car crash! Suki Potier (born Melanie Susan Potier November 14, 1947 in Surrey ) was an English model . She was born to Gilbert and Mary(nee Moore) Potier. She had an older sister Rosemary Sarah (Sally) Potier born February 12, 1946. When she was just a teenager, she modeled for all the great English designers, becoming a favorite of Ossie Clark. At the age of 18, Suki was dating Guinness heir Tara Browne, who was separated from his then-wife, Nicky.
On December 18, 1966, Suki was a passenger in Tara's Lotus Elan when he drove through South Kensington at high rate of speed, colliding with a parked lorry and was killed instantly. Suki was not injured. Part of The Beatles song, A Day in the Life is based on this incident.
It was this tragedy that led her to Rolling Stones musician Brian Jones. Suki said, "He gave me a shoulder to cry on and he picked up the pieces and made me feel a woman again." The two dated for approximately two years.
Suki moved in with 27-year-old Brian in the last few months before his death to a fifteenth century farmhouse, which was once the home of AA Milne, creator of the Winnie the Pooh stories. It was there in the swimming pool that Brian, who had by then left the Rolling Stones, drowned mysteriously.
Suki was shattered by Brian's death. Suki remained friends with the Rolling Stones, going to parties with Mick Jagger, attending the Isle of Wight Festival with Keith Richards, Charlie Watts, and other members of the Stones camp.
In the Seventies, Suki married a Hong Kong business man named Robert Ho, with whom she had two daughters, Faye and Sarah. On June 23, 1981, while in Portugal, Suki & Robert were involved in a fatal hit and run crash while returning home to their two children, having had a quiet dinner with Robert's Mother.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suki_Potier |
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Post by Jai Guru Deva on Apr 22, 2008 3:09:01 GMT -5
This LOOK magazine article is mostly about John Crittle and Dandy Fashions/Apple Tailoring, but there's some information about Tara Browne too. I cut and paste the text, but click on the link because there are some photos I want you all to see... rockpopfashion.com/blog/?p=53____________________________________________________ John Crittle: The Dandy Larrikin in LondonTHE LOOK’s sojourn down under has combined with the acquisition of the fabulous Larrikins In London catalogue (from a show at Sydney’s Ivan Dougherty Gallery five years ago) to bring to mind a sorely underrated figures of 60s London: John Crittle. Crittle was so central a 60s character that he accompanied the model Peki d’Oslo (one time muse of Salvador Dali and latterly the disco queen Amanda Lear) when she appeared before magistrates on May 27 1967 after a raid on Dandy resulted in charges for possession of “dangerous drugs”. Brian Jones sent his car and chauffeur Brian Palastanga to ensure that their journey to and from Marlborough Street court was as comfortable as possible. By all accounts a maverick, the great-looking Crittle arrived in London from Australia in the early 60s, just ahead of the influx which contained such movers and shakers as artist Martin Sharp, filmmaker Philippe Mora, iconoclast Germaine Greer, designer Jenny Kee and Oz magazine founder Richard Neville and his partner Louise Ferrier (who is played by Sienna Miller in this year’s movie version of Neville’s book Hippie Hippie Shake). The estranged father of ballet superstar Darcey Bussell, Crittle first emerged in the story of rock and pop fashion in the employ of Michael Rainey at Hung On You, when it was situated in Cale Street, Chelsea Green, in 1965. Rainey is not a fan, describing Crittle as “ghastly”; what is certain is that the Aussie took the Hung On You formula of fine tailoring with an eccentric twist to the shop Dandy (sometimes spelt Dandie) Fashions and broadened it out for the mainstream as the King’s Road became the global epicentre of cool. Dandy was opened at 161 King’s Road in October 1966 by well-born peacocks Neil Winterbotham and Guinness heir Tara Browne, in part as an outlet for Browne’s groovy tailoring business Foster & Tara, which also serviced such stores as Granny Takes A Trip. In January 1967, (error--it was Dec. 18, 1966  ) Browne was killed when his Lotus Elan collided with a van in Earls Court. Just 21, he had been on his way to the Kings Road to discuss a new Dandy shop-front created by designers Dudley Edwards (who continues to design for high profile collectors), Douglas Binder (curator at Dean Clough in Halifax) and David Vaughn (father of designer Sadie Frost). Famously, The Daily Mail report of Browne’s death was one of the triggers for John Lennon’s composition A Day In The Life (“He blew his mind out in a car, He didn’t notice that the light had changed…”) while the Pretty Things recorded Death Of A Socialite in Tara’s memory. Under Crittle’s stewardship, Dandy’s clientele included Jimi Hendrix, who bought a red silk jacket printed with roses which is still in the possession of his Seattle friends Ron Hammond and Luther Rabb (to whom he gave it in the late 60s), and David Bowie, who acquired the silver suit he wears in the Space Oddity. Crittle was by no means a typical member of the counter-culture, which perhaps explains his absence from most histories of the period. One acquaintance, Nigel Waymouth of Granny’s, recalls him as a bit of a hard-nut, preferring pints in the pub with the shopfitters. “John was the kind of guy who’d turn up after a night out with a black eye,” he says.In May 1968, The Beatles’ right-hand man Neil Aspinall and Apple accountant Stephen Maltz became directors of Dandy as part of a deal which saw the premises transformed into Apple Tailoring (Civil and Theatrical). John Lennon – whose pen-and-ink portrait of Crittle reached Y300,000 at sale by Bonhams - attended the opening night party of Apple Tailoring with Yoko Ono, marking the couple’s first public appearance. The Beatles’ attempt to latch onto the made-to-measure market was about as successful as Apple’s benighted Baker Street boutique, and the shop closed within a matter of months. “The Kings Road shop, which is known as Apple Tailoring, isn’t going to be part of Apple anymore,” announced Paul McCartney. “But it isn’t closing down and we are leaving our investment there because we have a moral and personal obligation to our partner John Crittle, who is now in sole control.” Crittle returned to Australia in 1975, leaving behind his daughter and wife, who remarried. On his death in 2000 (from emphysema at the age of 56), The Daily Mail revealed he was Darcey Bussell’s father. His daughter has occasionally reminisced about the few times she spent with him as a little girl, being ferried along the King’s Road in the back of a Rolls-Royce as Crittle manoeuvred his way around the demi-monde. Kee, meanwhile, pays her own tribute in the Larrikins In London booklet by spelling out in capitals DANDY FASHIONS OF THE EFFETE ELITE. Copies of Larrikins In London are occasionally available from premier 60s print collectible site Beatbooks while Hippie Hippie Shake is out this year. The estimable Richard Neville has a great web presence, Jenny Kee is an Aussie fashion legend and Martin Sharp keeps on keeping on.
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Post by thisone on Apr 22, 2008 16:08:28 GMT -5
That was timely. I just did a Google for Oz comics! "By all accounts a maverick, the great-looking Crittle arrived in London from Australia in the early 60s, just ahead of the influx which contained such movers and shakers as artist Martin Sharp, filmmaker Philippe Mora, iconoclast Germaine Greer, designer Jenny Kee and Oz magazine founder Richard Neville and his partner Louise Ferrier (who is played by Sienna Miller in this year’s movie version of Neville’s book Hippie Hippie Shake)." It also threw up a rather interesting bit of infos -- www.sparehed.com/2007/12/02/1418/www.wussu.com/zines/oz01_04.htm |
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Post by Jai Guru Deva on Aug 20, 2008 0:23:38 GMT -5
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Post by thisone on Aug 20, 2008 16:37:45 GMT -5
I was in the middle of replying to this post last night and my useless wireless braodband disppeared - re - the first link above! "If everyone didn't know that this was one of the great love stories of the 21st century, there would be a temptation to think this was less a marriage and more a merger. Jasmine is great-granddaughter of the late Lady Mosley, Gawain is a nephew of Lord Harlech. People came from near and far - The Honourable Garech Browne from Lugalla and Anjelica Huston from Los Angeles." en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diana_Mitford (Lady Mosley) "Diana, Lady Mosley (née Freeman-Mitford; 17 June 1910 – 11 August 2003) was one of Britain's noted Mitford sisters and hailed as one of the great beauties of her generation. She married Sir Oswald Mosley, leader of the British Union of Fascists in 1936, at the home of Joseph Goebbels, with Adolf Hitler as guest of honor. Subsequently her involvement with right-wing political causes resulted in three years' internment during the Second World War. Her obituary in The Daily Telegraph referred to her as an "unrepentant Nazi and effortlessly charming."" en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oswald_Mosley Oswald M osley   OZ again!! |
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Post by P(D)enny La(i)ne on Sept 15, 2008 12:00:31 GMT -5
This has been bugging me for MONTHS, so I'm going to spend a little time and throw it out there. First: I want to mention Taf's great blog post about Tara Browne (homosexuality), and in particular, his stroke of genius in putting JPM IN THE CRASHED CAR with Tara Browne. I'm not sure that he's right, but it's promising, and I can't believe that nobody came up with that scenario before. iamaphoney.blogspot.com/2008/09/homosexuality.htmlSecond: I've never seen this mentioned, so I'm going to mention it now. Tara's car was a LOTUS Elan. There are several definitions for LOTUS, but here's the one most relevant to us: "Nymphaea lotus, the Tiger Lotus or Egyptian White Water- LILY, is a flowering plant of the family Nymphaeaceae that grows in various parts of East Africa and Southeast Asia. It is known to flower at night and close in the morning and remains of the flower have been found in the burial tomb of Ramesses II.The ancient Egyptians believed that the lotus flower gave them strength and power." en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nymphaea_lotusThird: These two photos of Tara Browne look like different people to me. "Tara Browne #1" (originally posted by Jai):  "Tara Browne #2":  Fourth: I find it VERY hard to believe that Tara's girlfriend (Suki Potier) was in the car at the time of the accident, but was not injured. Fifth: I find it VERY odd that Suki ended up dating Brian Jones (who vaguely resembled Tara Browne), eventually moved in with him, and was present at Jones's death scene as well. Sixth: It's really strange that Brian Jones, who was often described as a musical genius, who it was said could play any instrument put in front of him, suddenly found himself virtually unable to play even guitar, and was forced out of the band (Rolling Stones) that he founded. Now, I'm not 100% certain how all of this all fits together, but we have three different public figures (JPM, Tara Browne, and Brian Jones), who all knew each other, and who all either died, or were replaced, or both, within a pretty short span of time (Sep, 66 - July, 69). As I said above, I LOVE Taf's idea of having JPM in the car with Tara when he crashed on 12/18/66, but what about this scenario, instead? 1. *Something* happened to JPM earlier in 1966 -- maybe even a car crash on 9/11. He wasn't killed, but was disfigured in some way, requiring a replacement for the Beatles. 2. A few months later, Brian Jones is murdered in Tara Browne's car, but it is set up to make it appear as if Tara Browne died in a car "accident". Suki was NOT in the car during the crash, but she is placed at the scene AFTER the fact in order to identify the body to the Police, who only see a shattered young man with shaggy blond hair. 3. Tara Browne replaces Brian Jones, but in appearance only. Musically, he is replaced by the disfigured JPM, who despite his physical appearance, is still a genius multi-instrumentalist, who, like Brian Jones, can play just about any instrument you hand to him. 4. Suki begins dating Brian Jones, and eventually moves in with him. This makes a lot of sense now, as Brian is really Tara, who she was seeing when he "died". 5. At some point in 1969, it's determined that there's no longer a need for a Brian Jones character at all, so he is either literally murdered, or his death/murder is faked in order to make him disappear. Why am I proposing that all of this murder and switching has taken place? Again, I don't know all of the whys and the hows, but I think my scenario makes as much sense as the "real" story. Oh, and here's a comparison of a 1967 (post Tara crash) Brian Jones with Tara Browne. Brian Jones with Keef Richard(s):  And again, here's Tara Browne:  What do you think? Is this all too much? |
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Post by plastic paul on Sept 15, 2008 12:38:35 GMT -5
The first photo has always reminded me of Peter Cook, as I think I may have said before, and yes, I agree that the two men supposed to be Tara don't even look all that similar to me.
As for your potential scenario - to me it could fit and although on the face of it seems too much, is not all that outrageous, again purely just my opinion of course.
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Post by paulumbo on Sept 15, 2008 15:40:02 GMT -5
P(D)enny La(i)ne, you are putting Paul outside the 1966 death scenario. I know there are several musicians on this board. Does Paul have a distinctive way of playing that could be recognized on the 1967-on Rolling Stones recordings? What I have noticed is that the Stones are not part of the rock group PWR chatter, and that their lack of commenting in songs is conspicuous by its absence.
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Post by paulumbo on Sept 15, 2008 17:09:39 GMT -5
(in response to a now-deleted post from Letter B about the Rolling Stones writing PID lyrics)
Yes, I read the lyrics to FLIGHT 505 last week, but it is too vague to be considered a PID song, imo. There's a song called LADY JANE on that album, too. And I would consider that a P'sIL song: Paul's In Love.
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Post by P(D)enny La(i)ne on Sept 15, 2008 18:35:33 GMT -5
Paulumbo,
LB and I were discussing a verse from "You Can't Always Get What You Want" not too long ago, but here it is again:
"I went down to the Chelsea drugstore
To get your prescription filled
I was standing in line with Mr. Jimmy (JAMES Paul McCartney)
And man, did he look pretty ill
We decided that we would have a soda
My favorite flavor, cherry red
I sung my song to Mr. Jimmy
Yeah, and he said one word to me, and that was "dead"
I said to him..."
You're sort of right, though, in that I don't think there are too many Stones songs that address PID/PWR. I think that is down to Jagger being uptight, and shrewd enough to not give too much away.
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Post by tafultong on Sept 15, 2008 22:44:53 GMT -5
As I said above, I LOVE Taf's idea of having JPM in the car with Tara when he crashed on 12/18/66, but what about this scenario, instead? What do you think? Is this all too much? Yes, there are all kinds of possible scenarios where Paul could somehow feel responsible for Tara's death: Paul in the same car / Paul in a different car and the two of them playing a dangerous game / Paul was not there, but supplied the intoxicant / Paul said or did something that caused Tara to get upset and drive recklessly --- the list can go on and on. |
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Post by ramone on Sept 15, 2008 22:49:58 GMT -5
Any of those would go with the Apollo theme.
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Post by iameye on Sept 16, 2008 9:27:09 GMT -5
  élan Pronunciation: \ā-ˈläⁿ\ Function: noun Etymology: French, from Middle French eslan rush, from (s')eslancer to rush, from ex- + lancer to hurl — more at lance Date: 1864 : vigorous spirit or enthusiasm |
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Post by iameye on Sept 16, 2008 9:51:15 GMT -5
And finally, this enigmatic piece of art from Sir Paul titled 'Tara's Plastic Skirt' (He stated he meant Tara Browne)  The Peacock Skirt - Beardsley |
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Post by B on Sept 16, 2008 11:46:51 GMT -5
Death cab for cutie |
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Post by P(D)enny La(i)ne on Sept 16, 2008 12:21:54 GMT -5
Death cab for cutie Yes! |
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Post by plastic paul on Sept 16, 2008 12:35:37 GMT -5
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Post by paulumbo on Sept 16, 2008 14:19:09 GMT -5
Where was the death cab for Cutie a-slippin' and a-sliddin' down? Highway 31. So I started looking for a Hwy. 31 in England and couldn't find one. I found one in the US and I found one in Ontario, Canada.
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) Browne was killed when his Lotus Elan collided with a van in Earls Court. Just 21, he had been on his way to the Kings Road to discuss a new Dandy shop-front created by designers Dudley Edwards (who continues to design for high profile collectors), Douglas Binder (curator at Dean Clough in Halifax) and David Vaughn (father of designer Sadie Frost).
