On a cloudy day when my son Miles was about three, the sun came out on our way home from the park, and I sand "Here Comes The Sun". When we got home, I played "Abbey Road" for him, the album that begins with that song—and he began to really like The Beatles. The song he loved most was "A Day in the Life" from "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band". At one point, he said that "the boom" was his favorite part, and I thought he meant the big orchestral crescendoes. But he corrected me: the first one was "the fake boom"; the second one was "the real boom". (Andrew Shields, #111Words, 22 June 2026)

“Here Comes the Sun”, “A Day in the Life”, and “the real boom"