The song refers to Tara Browne, a partygoer in his day, deemed a "socialite" by The Pretty Things in the title of the song "Death of a Socialite," dedicated to Tara. He was the son of Lord Oranmore and Browne, thus had he lived to see the age of twenty-one, he would have inherited his father's estate engrossed by the Guiness beer company. I think this is what the House of Lords line refers to. John was not very close to Tara, though they surely had met. Paul, on the other hand, was a friend of Tara's. Another cog in the Paul Is Dead controversy is the scar Paul got on his lip after wrecking a motorcycle while joyriding with Tara. In the early morning hours of December 18, 1966, with his girlfriend Suki Poitier in the passenger seat, he sped through a red light in Redcliffe Square, swerved to miss an oncoming VW Bug, and slammed into a parked van, killing Tara. Yet, Suki walked away hardly scratched. In January, the article about Tara's death was run in the Daily Mail and John put it in the song. Suki, by the way, dated many rockstars including Jimi Hendrix, Brian Jones, and Keith Richards.
The song refers to Tara Browne, a partygoer in his day, deemed a "socialite" by The Pretty Things in the title of the song "Death of a Socialite," dedicated to Tara. He was the son of Lord Oranmore and Browne, thus had he lived to see the age of twenty-one, he would have inherited his father's estate engrossed by the Guiness beer company. I think this is what the House of Lords line refers to. John was not very close to Tara, though they surely had met. Paul, on the other hand, was a friend of Tara's. Another cog in the Paul Is Dead controversy is the scar Paul got on his lip after wrecking a motorcycle while joyriding with Tara. In the early morning hours of December 18, 1966, with his girlfriend Suki Poitier in the passenger seat, he sped through a red light in Redcliffe Square, swerved to miss an oncoming VW Bug, and slammed into a parked van, killing Tara. Yet, Suki walked away hardly scratched. In January, the article about Tara's death was run in the Daily Mail and John put it in the song. Suki, by the way, dated many rockstars including Jimi Hendrix, Brian Jones, and Keith Richards.