Beatles song is best ever

Quoted from: http://www.thisislondon.co.uk

'By Metro
12 September 2005

Drugs, war, a grisly car crash and enough holes to fill the Albert Hall - apparently these make up the perfect British pop song. A Day In The Life by The Beatles has been voted the best British song of all time. The Fab Four's 1967 classic pushed The Kinks'Waterloo Sunset into second place, followed by Wonderwall by Oasis. Angels by Robbie Williams was the most modern track in a music experts' top ten dominated by acts from the 1960s and 1970s. A day In The Life 'remains the ultimate sonic rendition of what it means to be British', said Q magazine, which organised the poll. The track was banned by the BBC for supposedly mentioning drugs. It opens with John Lennon singing and playing acoustic guitar and climaxes with a 41-piece orchestra 'freaking out' and all four Beatles hitting the same final piano chord. The orchestra was asked to wear a mixture of formal and fancy dress for the session and told to 'freak out' for 24 bars, as long as they all ended on the same note. The band added other sound effects including an alarm clock ringing, roadie Mal Evans counting each bar and a high-pitched tone audible only to dogs. God Save The Queen by The Sex Pistols was fourth in the poll, followed by Queen's Bohemian Rhapsody. The Who's My Generation, Angels by Robbie Williams, David Bowie's Life On Mars, Sympathy For The Devil by The Rolling Stones and Massive Attack's Unfinished Sympathy completed the top ten.
But what is the song all about?
'I read the news today, oh boy...' John Lennon often wrote songs with the Daily Mail propped up on his piano and he was inspired by two stories while writing the song.
'He blew his mind out in a car, he didn't notice that the lights had changed...' One of the stories was about Guinness heir Tara Browne, who died in December 1966 when he drove his Lotus Elan into the back of a parked lorry in South Kensington.
'Four thousand holes in Blackburn, Lancashire, and though the holes were rather small, they had to count them all...' This was the second Daily Mail story to catch Lennon's eye - a plan to fill 4,000 potholes in Blackburn.
'I'd love to turn you on...' This was one of the alleged drug references which led the BBC to ban the track from radio playlists when it was released.