Name: 約翰藍儂是如何寫出〈A Day In The Life〉這首傳奇歌曲的？ (How John Lennon Wrote "A Day In The Life")
Uploaded: 2025-11-17T17:02:03.000Z
Duration: 8 min 15 s

John Lennon was sitting at the piano in his home working on new music for the Beatles.

John Lennon 當時正坐在他家裡的鋼琴旁，為 Beatles 創作新歌。

The band was two months into recording their new album, which would be their first since deciding to stop touring permanently.

這時候樂團已經進錄音室兩個月了，這是他們決定永久停止巡迴演出後的第一張專輯。

What would be their final tour ended just three months before that in August 66.

他們最後一次巡迴演出在三個月前的 66 年 8 月結束。

And it was a punishing experience for the boys.

對這幾個男孩來說，那是一次痛苦的經歷。

Too many dates and music media controversies, too much traveling, crowds so loud that no one could actually hear the music.

演出場次太多、音樂媒體爭議不斷、舟車勞頓、觀眾聲量太大到根本聽不到音樂。

And the Beatles were moving in new creative directions too, writing songs with innovative studio techniques that couldn't really be replicated on stage, not back then anyway.

而且 Beatles 也在朝新的創作方向發展，他們寫的歌運用了創新的錄音室技巧，在舞臺上根本無法真正重現，至少當時不行。

I mean, they were touring during the release of Revolver, but

我的意思是，他們在發行 Revolver 的時候還在巡迴，但是

they didn't play any of those songs on that tour.

他們在那次巡迴演出中沒有表演那些歌。

Exhausted, the Beatles took a three month break during which they all went their separate ways and did their own things.

筋疲力盡的 Beatles 休息了三個月，這段時間他們各自散去，做自己的事。

John went to Almeria, Spain to film a part in Richard Lester's flat comedy film, How I Won the War.

John 去了西班牙的 Almeria，參演 Richard Lester 的黑色喜劇電影《How I Won the War》。

By November, the band was back in the studio recording what would become Sgt.

到了十一月，樂團回到了錄音室，錄製了後來成為《Sgt.》的專輯。

By mid January, they'd recorded Strawberry Fields Forever, Penny Lane and When I'm 64, the first two of which would be released as singles.

到了隔年一月中，他們錄製了《Strawberry Fields Forever》、《Penny Lane》和《When I'm 64》，其中前兩首將會發行成單曲。

Then on January 17, Lennon opened the newspaper.

接著在 1 月 17 日，Lennon 打開了報紙。

He saw a story about Tara Brown, the 21 year old Irish socialite who was the great grandson of Arthur Guinness, the guy who founded the famous Guinness Brewery in 1759.

他看到一則關於 Tara Brown 的報導，她是一位 21 歲的愛爾蘭名媛，是 1759 年創立著名 Guinness 酒廠的 Arthur Guinness 的曾孫。

Tara was an heir to that fortune, a trust fund kid who was living it up in the swinging London of the 60s.

Tara 是那筆財富的繼承人，一個在六零年代倫敦享樂的信託基金小孩。

Tara actually knew John, but he was better friends with Paul.

Tara 其實認識 John，但他跟 Paul 的交情比較好。

In fact, he facilitated Paul's first LSD trip.

事實上，他促成了 Paul 的第一次 LSD 體驗。

Well, you know, I mean, if I was to say where I got it from, you know, it's illegal and everything, it's silly to say that.

嗯，你知道的，我是說，如果我要說我從哪裡得到的，你知道，這是非法的，說出來很傻。

And though the news was Rather sad, on December 17th, Brown was driving through London with his girlfriend when he crashed his Lotus Elan into a parked truck.

雖然這個消息相當令人難過，但在 12 月 17 日，Brown 和他的女友開車經過倫敦時，他的 Lotus Elan 撞上了一輛停著的卡車。

He died the following day of his injuries.

A month later they were still writing stories about his tragic death in the papers.

一個月後，報紙上還在報導他悲慘死亡的消息。

And the story that John saw that Tuesday in the Daily Mail was the inspiration for A Day in the Life, what would become the final song on sergeant Pepper and arguably the Beatles best song.

而 John 在星期二看到的《Daily Mail》上的報導，就是《A Day in the Life》的靈感來源，這首歌後來成為《Sgt. Pepper》的最後一首，也可能是 Beatles 最棒的歌曲。

In John's version, it's not a swinging socialite in the car, but

在 John 的版本裡，車裡坐的不是什麼愛交際的時髦女子，而是

a politician who shoots himself in the head.

The crowd of people gathering to stare recognize his face.

But nobody was really sure if he was from the House of Lords.

但沒人確定他是不是來自上議院。

The House of Lords being, of course, an institution of privileged elites who are not elected to their positions.

上議院，當然，就是那些沒有民選、享有特權的菁英組成的機構。

They are, in most cases, lucky men who made the grade, Though that's a bit of John's signature sarcasm.

他們大多是幸運兒，靠關係爬上來，這也算是 John 標誌性的諷刺手法。

It's not hard to make the grade when you're born near the top.

當你含著金湯匙出生，要爬上來並不難。

The paradox is that this man, with every advantage, was still seemingly deeply unhappy.

弔詭的是，這個擁有所有優勢的男人，卻似乎極度不快樂。

對此，John 發出了奇怪的笑聲。

John wasn't born with privilege, but by January 1967, he had plenty of fame, money, power.

John 並非含著金湯匙出生，但到了 1967 年一月，他已經名利雙收、權力在握。

These things should bring you joy, right?

One has to completely humiliate oneself to be what the Beatles were.

為了成為披頭四那樣的人，一個人必須徹底放下身段。

Complete craziness is surrounding you and you're doing exactly what you don't want to do with people you can't stand.

你被瘋狂的氛圍包圍，做著你根本不想做的事，跟一群你討厭的人在一起。

In the second verse, John goes to see a movie about the Second World War.

在第二段，約翰去看了一部關於第二次世界大戰的電影。

Presumably a crowd of people turn away at the moment the British are victorious.

據推測，在英國獲勝的時刻，一群人轉過身去。

The verse is likely referencing the movie that John just finished filming in Spain.

這段歌詞很可能是在引用約翰剛在西班牙拍完的電影。

But once again, he creates, in just a few lines, a dreamlike atmosphere in which he's seeing an event of great violence filtered through a media lens.

但他再次僅用幾行文字，就營造出一種夢幻般的氛圍，他透過媒體的濾鏡看到了極度暴力的事件。

First it was a newspaper, now it's a film.

First a suicide, now a war, first a tragedy, now a triumph.

先是自殺，現在是戰爭；先是悲劇，現在是勝利。

The great gift of John Lennon's voice was his singular ability to convey nuanced emotion.

約翰藍儂歌聲最棒的恩賜，就是他傳達細膩情感的獨特能力。

I mean, how do you make existential boredom sound so poignant?

我說，你怎麼能讓存在的無聊聽起來如此感人肺腑？

It's not about technical skill, it's something undefinable.

這不是技術技巧的問題，而是某種難以言喻的東西。

I love the other parts of this song, that reference to LSD advocate Timothy Leary's phrase, turn on, tune in, drop out.

我喜歡這首歌的其他部分，還有那句引用 LSD 倡導者提摩西·李爾的「開機、調頻、退隱」的說法。

I love the music, the volcanic orchestral breaks, Paul's bridge, which is just so Pa.

我喜歡這音樂，還有那火山爆發般的管絃樂段落，以及保羅那段極具個人風格的橋段。

Woke up, fell out of bed Dragged a comb across my head.

醒來，從床上摔下來，梳子梳了梳頭。

But for me, the transcendent parts of A Day in the Life are John's verses.

但對我來說，《A Day in the Life》中最超然的部分是約翰的詩句。

The final one was inspired by another article from that same January 17 Daily Mail.

最後一段的靈感來自同一份《每日郵報》1月17日的另一篇文章。

蘭開夏郡布萊克本鎮有四千個坑洞。

The local council reported that there were 4,000 potholes in the town of Blackburn, Lancashire, or 26th of a hole per person.

當地議會報告說，布萊克本鎮有四千個坑洞，平均每人有二十六分之一的坑洞。

It's just so absurd, this image of some government counting Thousands of holes in the roads of an English town.

這實在太荒謬了，想像一下政府竟然在計算一個英國城鎮道路上的無數個坑洞。

John was always sensitive to this kind of absurdity.

約翰對這種荒謬感一直很敏感。

有時候是喜劇性的，就像這段歌詞。

Sometimes it's tragic, as in the first verse.

有時候是悲劇性的，就像第一段歌詞。

The truth is that there's something fundamentally absurd about reality itself.

事實是，現實本身就存在某種根本性的荒謬。

That fact is often hidden by the language we use to describe it.

這個事實常常被我們用來描述它的語言所掩蓋。

But language can also be used to bring that absurdity back to the surface.

但語言也可以用來將那種荒謬重新帶回表面。

For example, the great Lewis Carroll, who, who deeply influenced John, accomplished that with the use of wordplay and parody by inventing new words and disrupting language's normal patterns.

舉個例子，偉大的 Lewis Carroll，他深深影響了 John，透過文字遊戲和模仿，發明新詞並打破語言的常規模式，就做到了這一點。

John followed in Carroll's footsteps with his own books of literary nonsense and in songs like I Am the Walrus, Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds and Come Together.

John 在他的文學荒誕作品和歌曲中，像是 I Am the Walrus、Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds 和 Come Together，也跟隨了 Carroll 的腳步。

You can hear it here too, in lines like now they know how many holes it takes to fill the Albert Hall.

你也可以在這裡聽到，像是「現在他們知道填滿 Albert Hall 需要多少個洞」這樣的歌詞。

But there's something unique, unique about A Day in the Life.

但 A Day in the Life 有種獨特之處。

It's not as playful as those other songs I mentioned.

它不像我剛才提到的那些歌那麼俏皮。

There's something wistful about the lyrics and the voice that sings them.

歌詞和他演唱的聲音中，有種憂傷的感覺。

The song is not ultimately about these poetic, tragic, absurd scenes, but

這首歌最終不是關於這些詩意、悲劇、荒謬的場景，而是

about the person, the 26 year old who can only ever experience them from behind the glass of media, of drugs, of an unprecedented, inescapable level of fame.

關於那個人，那個 26 歲的人，他只能透過媒體、毒品，以及前所未有、無法逃脫的名聲的玻璃窗來體驗它們。

You know, John always said that his favorite Beatles songs were the personal ones.

你知道嗎，John 總是說他最喜歡的 Beatles 歌是那些比較個人的。

Songs like In My Life Help, Strawberry Fields Forever.

像是 In My Life、Help、Strawberry Fields Forever 這樣的歌。

At first glance, A Day in the Life might not seem like it's about John Lennon.

乍看之下，《A Day in the Life》可能不像是在講 John Lennon。

也許連 John 自己都不相信是這樣。

But even if the lyrics point outward, the voice tells a different story.

但即使歌詞指向外界，他的聲音卻訴說著不同的故事。

Hey everybody, thank you so much for watching.

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本集節目由 Squarespace 贊助播出，這是個一站式的網站平臺，讓創業者能在線上脫穎而出並取得成功。

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開始之前，你可以使用 Squarespace 的 AI 增強網站建置工具 Blueprint AI，在短短幾個步驟內就完成個人化的網站。

Or choose from their library of professionally designed templates that are sleek and engaging.

或者從他們專業設計的精美且引人入勝的模板庫中挑選。

Every website you make will be optimized for SEO, so you'll show up more often in search results.

你製作的每一個網站都會經過 SEO 優化，讓你更容易出現在搜尋結果中。