It’s not a secret that drugs profoundly impacted The Beatles’ music. They completely changed their sound when they started using illegal substances and made some of the most enduring music of all time ...
The story of Revolver began in a night of hell and illumination. "We've had LSD," John Lennon told George Harrison. It was spring 1965. Lennon and his wife, Cynthia, and Harrison and his wife, Pattie ...
In the 1960s, John Lennon and the rest of The Beatles tried LSD. While Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr didn’t love the drug, Lennon and George Harrison used it frequently. Lennon once said that their ...
The Beatles released their crowning creative achievement, Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, in 1967 — the same year they discovered Transcendental Meditation John Lennon and George Harrison ...
Some Beatles critics were quick to blame the Fab Four for the rise of drug culture, particularly psychedelics and marijuana, in the late 1960s, but George Harrison had a different idea about who was ...
Half a century ago—when the Beatles album Revolver was released on Aug. 5, 1966, in the U.K.—John Lennon ended the last song on the record with a lyrical message best understood by a certain subset of ...