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| 9 years ago
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@[drspyderx:17165] not potholes at all.Blackburn town centre was undergoing a massive refurbishment with new buildinga and their foundations and renewed sewer systems etc consequently there were lots of holes in the ground and a newspaper with nothing better to do said they would fit in the Albert Hall,a famous theatre in London.
i grew up in Blackburn and saw it all. |
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| 9 years ago
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@[themelancholywalrus:17164] blackburn is indeed as you say an industrial town.atahe reference to 4000 holes was about the reconstruction of the town centre around 1963 when there were holes big and small dug in the town centre as new foundations and sewers were built.A national newspaper on a quiet news day wrote that if the holes were added together they would fill the albert hall.In other words it was a nonsense story.The whole theme of the song is that people need to turn on to serious issues not idle talk about who the man might have been who died or about a stupid newspaper non-story and instead turn their attention to real world problems |
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| The Beatles – A Day in the Life Lyrics
| 11 years ago
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Blackburn is an industrial town in north west England and was undergoing massive reconstruction of itds town centre.The Albert Hall is a famous London theatre.
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| 11 years ago
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How wrong can you be.Blackburn is an industrial town in the county Lancashire.The whole of England is split into administrative local government centres known as counties.The Albert Hall is a famous theatre in London.
The 4000 holes story was from a newspaper article about the massive regeneration of Blackburn town centre in the early to mid 60's when there were massive holes in the town centre as new sewers and foudations were laid for a new shopping mall etc.Some writer made an interesting observation that the volume of all the holes would fill the vast space in the Albert Hall |
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| 11 years ago
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In the early to mid 60's,Blackburn an old town that grew from the industrial revolution was undergoing a massive reconstruction and modernisation of its town centre.The work took months if not years to complete and the town centre was full of excavations,sewer works and general building.
A national newspaper ,presumably on a quiet news day wrote a headline that there were 4000 holes in Blacburn and that their volume in total would fill the Albert Hall,a famous London theatre.John took the story as an example of the garbage that people read and it fits perfectly into the message from this song that people need to turn on to things which really matter and not the trivia so often reported on and spoken about.I lived ther and would have been in my late teens then.The biggest hole must have been maybe 18 metres deep and a similar size all round.It was heavily cordoned off with a tall wooden structure but ther were viewing holes cut out so passers -by could watch the work. |
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| 11 years ago
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the Blackburn reference is to a major redevelopment which was ongoing in the town centre in the 60's.There were massive construction works and the town centre was full of holes,some of them enormous, dug as part of the various projects.A national newspaper at the time had the headline that the holes in total were the size of the Albert Hall,a well-known London theatre.Believe me,I lived thru it.At the time of release in USA the song was briefly banned in some areas because the word 'holes' was thought to be a drug reference. |
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