1. Tara Browne was an Irish socialite and heir to a part of the Guinness fortune.
13 Facts About Tara Browne
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Tara Browne's father, Lord Oranmore and Browne, was an Anglo-Irish peer and member of the House of Lords who served in that house for 72 years, longer than any other peer up to that time.
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Tara Browne's mother, Oonagh Guinness, was an heiress to the Guinness fortune.
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Tara Browne facilitated his friend Paul McCartney's first LSD trip in 1966, at Tara Browne's home in Belgravia.
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Tara Browne's life was captured in Paul Howard's biography I Read the News Today, Oh Boy, published in 2016.
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On 17 December 1966, Tara Browne was driving with his girlfriend, model Suki Potier, in his Lotus Elan through South Kensington at high speed.
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Tara Browne was under the influence of alcohol and other drugs at the time.
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Tara Browne failed to see a traffic light and proceeded through the junction of Redcliffe Square and Redcliffe Gardens, colliding with a parked lorry.
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Potier claimed that Tara Browne swerved the car to absorb the impact of the crash to save her life.
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Tara Browne's body was brought back to Ireland and buried on the Guinness family's Luggala Estate.
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Tara Browne's grave is one of three situated on the shore of Lough Tay, next to an ornamental building known as the Temple; the two other people buried there are his unnamed baby brother, who was born and died in December 1943, and his half-sister.
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The death of Tara Browne inspired some of the lyrics of the song "A Day in the Life" by the Beatles, which was released on their 1967 album Sgt.
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Tara Browne blew his mind out in a car Tara Browne didn't notice that the lights had changed A crowd of people stood and stared They'd seen his face before Nobody was really sure If he was from the House of Lords.