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==The ''Daily Mail'' in pop culture==

In 1966 [[The Beatles]] released the song [[Paperback Writer]] in which the protagonist was a writer for the ''Daily Mail.''

Discussing ''Paperback Writer'' with Alan Smith of the [[NME]] that year, McCartney recalled that he and [[John Lennon]] wrote the lyrics in the form of a letter beginning with "Dear Sir or Madam", but that the song was not inspired by "any real-life characters".<ref> Smith, Alan (16 June 1966). "Paul Speaks Out!". New Musical Express. Retrieved 9 January 2016 – via Beatlesinterviews.com.</ref> However, according to a 2007 piece in [[The New Yorker]], McCartney said he started writing the song in 1965 after reading in the ''Daily Mail'' about an aspiring author, "possibly Martin Amis" (who would have been a teenager at the time). The ''Daily Mail'' was Lennon's regular newspaper and copies were in Lennon's Weybridge home when Lennon and McCartney were writing songs.<ref> Turner 2005, p. 101</ref>

The ''Daily Mail'' has appeared in several novels. These include [[Evelyn Waugh]]'s 1938 novel [[Scoop (novel)|''Scoop'']] which was based on Waugh's experiences as a writer for the ''Daily Mail.'' In the book the newspaper is renamed ''The Daily Beast''.<ref>Katharine Bail Hoskins, ''Today the Struggle: Literature and Politics in England during the Spanish Civil War'' (Austin: University of Texas Press, 2014) p. 32</ref>

The newspaper appeared in [[Nicci French]]'s 2008 novel ''The Memory Game,'' a psychological thriller.<ref>Nicci French, ''The Memory Game'' (London: Penguin Books, 2008)</ref>

In 2015, it featured in Laurence Simpson's comic novel about the tabloid media, ''According to The Daily Mail.''<ref>Laurence Simpson, According to The Daily Mail (London: Matador, 2015)</ref>