Editing A Day in the Life (section)

==Background==
[[John Lennon]] wrote the melody and most of the lyrics to the verses of "A Day in the Life" in mid-January 1967.{{sfn|Hertsgaard|1996|p=2}} Soon afterwards, he presented the song to [[Paul McCartney]], who contributed a middle-eight section.{{sfn|MacDonald|2005|pp=229–30}} According to Lennon, McCartney also contributed the pivotal line "I'd love to turn you on."<ref>{{Cite web |title=John Lennon Interview: ''Playboy'' 1980 (page 3) – Beatles Interviews Database |url=http://www.beatlesinterviews.org/dbjypb.int3.html |access-date=2022-08-22 |website=www.beatlesinterviews.org}}</ref> In a 1970 interview, Lennon discussed their collaboration on the song:

{{quote|Paul and I were definitely working together, especially on "A Day in the Life"{{nbsp}}... The way we wrote a lot of the time: you'd write the good bit, the part that was easy, like "I read the news today" or whatever it was, then when you got stuck or whenever it got hard, instead of carrying on, you just drop it; then we would meet each other, and I would sing half, and he would be inspired to write the next bit and vice versa. He was a bit shy about it because I think he thought it's already a good song{{nbsp}}... So we were doing it in his room with the piano. He said "Should we do this?" "Yeah, let's do that."<ref>{{cite web |url=http://imaginepeace.com/archives/4385 |title=The Rolling Stone Interview: John Lennon |date=21 January 1971 |access-date=26 February 2013 |archive-date=2 August 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200802205936/http://www.imaginepeace.com/403.html |url-status=live }}</ref>}}

In 1968, Lennon said, "It was a good piece of work between Paul and me. I had the 'I read the news today' bit, and it turned Paul on, because now and then we really turn each other on with a bit of song, and he just said 'yeah' – bang bang, like that."<ref>{{Cite magazine |last=Cott |first=Jonathan |date=1968-11-23 |title=John Lennon: The Rolling Stone Interview |url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/john-lennon-the-rolling-stone-interview-186264/ |access-date=2022-08-22 |magazine=Rolling Stone}}</ref>

According to author [[Ian MacDonald]], "A Day in the Life" was strongly informed by Lennon's [[LSD]]-inspired revelations, in that the song "concerned 'reality' only to the extent that this had been revealed by LSD to be largely in the eye of the beholder".{{sfn|MacDonald|2005|p=228}} Having long resisted Lennon and [[George Harrison]]'s insistence that he join them and [[Ringo Starr]] in trying LSD, McCartney took it for the first time in late 1966. This experience contributed to the Beatles' willingness to experiment on ''Sgt. Pepper'' and to Lennon and McCartney returning to a level of collaboration that had been somewhat absent.{{sfn|Gould|2007|pp=388–89}}