A Day in the Life a recent "Life" magazine interview, that he had taken LSD. Described by MacDonald as a "careless admission", it led to condemnation of McCartney in the British press, recalling the outcry caused by the publication of Lennon's "More popular than Jesus" remark in the US in 1966. The BBC ban on the song was eventually lifted on 13 March 1972. Recalling the release of "Sgt. Pepper" in his 1977 book "The Beatles Forever", Nicholas Schaffner wrote that "Nothing quite like 'A Day In The Life' had been attempted before in so-called popular music" in terms of the song's "use of dynamics
The Evening News (London newspaper) The Evening News (London newspaper) The Evening News, earlier styled as The Evening News, was an evening newspaper published in London from 1881 to 1980, reappearing briefly in 1987. It became highly popular under the control of the Harmsworth brothers. For a long time it maintained the largest daily sale of any evening newspaper in London. After financial struggles and falling sales it was eventually merged with its long-time rival the "Evening Standard" in 1980. The newspaper was revived for an eight-month period in 1987. The paper was founded by Coleridge Kennard and Harry Marks. The first issue appeared on