They knew that they wanted it live and were not “wild men” like their contemporaries. Just watch the anthology, the uncut version, and they all say the same thing - that they couldn’t do music when they were loaded.
When I saw this video the other day I didn’t bother to check how many views it had, and I’m flabbergasted! You should have a million subscribers, dude! Keep up with the work, I and many other beatlemanics will be greatful 🙏🏽
I find you to be one of the best people I have seen on TH-cam. I can listen to you for hours. Well done, and I must say, you really have a great grasp on life/death. Luckily, I have no addictions, but, I am sure like many I do not like death though it comes for everyone. Keep up the good work.
If you watch the Beatles performance at shea stadium John Lennon is no doubt on something very potent. In fact years later during the anthology recordings and interviews George Harrison said I am not sure what John was on during the shea stadium performance but he was surely on something because he went mad at several points during the night.
A reason may be individual capacity. I think they also had a healthy fear to begin with. John was lucky, with the big H. And seeing your fellow musicians die may have helped. Plus it doesn't seem if alcohol was a big part.
Thanks, Peter. Yes it does seem like their Northern constitution may have played a part! It seems like they got over drinking alcohol for the most part when they were turned on to marijuana, although John famously drank a lot during his "Lost Weekend" in the 1970s, which was probably his most self-destructive period - and there are interviews with him after that time when he admits he was surprised he didn't die because he was so out of his mind and even jumped out of a moving car once! ✌️
@@thecharlesbliss Thanks for your thoughtful reply. I used to like to have a good time too, but some people just don't know when to stop. Have a great day!
Yoko said the heroin they got was appalling quality and available sporadically, to the extent they didnt even get that badly physically addicted to it. As for the other stuff, LSD rarely if ever kills and they wernt extreme users of other class A drugs.
I don't have a fear of death. I have a fear of dying. Who remembers the billions of years of history before the moment you were born? No-one, because you were "dead" the whole time. You didn't exist then, just like you won't when you die. It's no big deal; death is just like birth in reverse. My fear of dying involves all the usual fears about not making a mess, but, as a songwriter, I also worry that I'm going to have the most incredible idea for a song and then croak. x
Hey Stephen ✌️ It's an important distinction. I always think of the Woody Allen quote: "I'm not afraid to die, I just don't want to be there when it happens."
It's an interesting point. My personal view, which is based upon the express teachings of Lord Jesus, is that life really begins in death. There are many who claim that death is a "non-existence" but all the teachings of God and the prophets say otherwise.
@@65TossTrap I'm very interested in these perspectives from the world's religions, prophets and mystics - and the idea that perhaps consciousness is not restricted to the physical body. John Lennon once said: “I'm not afraid of death because I don't believe in it. It's just getting out of one car and into another.” Research studies are showing that the psychedelic experience can catalyse these mystical states, where terminally-ill cancer patients have a realisation that their life somehow continues after death. If you're interested in The Beatles and religion, I would recommend The Gospel According to The Beatles by Steve Turner, which I will be making a video on in the future ✌
Charles, this video is my first exposure to your work. I was wondering what type of literature you go in for. Given that you declare "death" (or human mortality) as one of your major preoccupations, I was wondering if you'd read any of the following works: Schopenhauer's "On the Sufferings of the World," Freud's "Civilization and its Discontents," and, especially, Becker's "The Denial of Death."
Thanks for watching, Jeff! At the moment my research for the book is focused on Beatles literature, psychedelic literature and death studies - and philosophy will be a big part of it, including William James. Schopenhauer has a wonderful essay called 'On an Apparent Intention in the Fate of the Individual', which argues that as you look back over your lifetime, it can appear to have a structure and plan, as if it were composed by a novelist. I am a fan of Freud and Jung, but haven't read the Becker book you mentioned, so will check it out. Thanks for the recommendation! ✌️
Hey Patrick. I said that John accidentally took LSD whilst recording at Abbey Road, meaning the studio rather than the album (technically, it was still called EMI Studios at that point). But you're correct - he accidentally took it on 21 March 1967, while recording the backing vocal track on Getting Better from Sgt. Pepper ✌
Actually there is one instance of a group of people mistaking crystal LSD and snorting an enormous dose. They didn't die but they came pretty close to it.
@@wangobadankas4038 I'd be interested to know what yours was like.Ive had about 4.Never went looking for them.They just happen about once a decade.The weirdest was comming home from Venice after about 14hrs without food.It was midnight and everything went Purple Haze for about an hour.Not hallucination exactly but everything looking and sounding inexplicably different,time going backwards and an ever deepening feeling of peace and love.Came on without me really noticing over some minutes and ended completely abruptly when I walked through my front door.Very odd,very nice.Had a few like that.Always this feeling of increasing ocean of peace.Nothing crazy or scary about it, totally out of the norm yet the norm at the same time if you know what I mean....What's your take?
Also different people have different susceptibilities to addictions. Be they drugs, alcohol, smoking, gambling, sex, love, shopping, food, etc. My only susceptibility is to romantic love. Harder to come by than most drugs. Won't kill you but can drive you mentally ill.
This channel appears to be something of an omnibus. I didn't know what to expect when I clicked on the video, and after some introductory discursive remarks, I was treated to a tutorial on the workings of pinball machines. LOL With You (and Me) Tube you never know.
Hey Scott. Thanks for your comment. I'm not aware of a time when they took so much of anything that they had to seek medical help, for example. Although there is the famous Two Junkies interview with Lennon and Yoko during the Get Back sessions, which John interrupts by being sick. Probably an indication that he was "abusing his body", as he later admitted as you can see in Peter Jackson's documentary, although the interview is not actually seen in Get Back.
why was Paul in 1967 looked so thin? I heard he used cocaine to endure the massive workload he did. Honest question. I must be mislead and ignorant about drug use.
Hey César. I'm not sure about his weight in 1967 - but he was using cocaine around the time they were recording Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, although he said he got tired of it quite quickly because of its short-lasting effects. He tells one story of going to the "check out the toilets" in a London club and running into Jimi Hendrix, but before he returned to his table the effects of the cocaine had already worn off. Paul, since 1965, has always been more of a cannabis guy, and although he tried various drugs, that's the one that he took regularly. If you're interested in this, I would recommend Riding So High: The Beatles and Drugs by Joe Goodden, which is a fantastic book that I'll be doing a video on soon ✌️
@@thecharlesbliss He also says that he quit cocaine b/c he didn't like the way it burned his throat and worried for his voice. However, some people say that even in the 70s he wouldn't refuse a bump if offered at a party, though he was no longer a habitual user.
@@Kieop There's an interesting bootleg called 'A Toot and a Snore in 1974', which was the last time that Lennon and McCartney are thought to have played together in which you can hear Lennon asking Stevie Wonder if he wants a line of cocaine: "You wanna snort, Steve? A toot? It's goin' round." I wonder if McCartney was also on it during that session.
@@thecharlesbliss We can only speculate (though I would vote yes, since Paul hadn't seen John in a long time and would want to fit in). However, since the session was being recorded, he may have declined, since he didn't like playing high. But again, it was John's session, so who knows? Ironically, that bootleg was available on TH-cam (perhaps still is on a different page), but as I was going through my reply inbox today, someone had replied to a post of mine on that video, but when I went to reply to them, the video was no longer available, so it was VERY recently taken down.
There is no such thing as Death. I have the evidence to prove that. Interestingly enough, I have had only a handful of people even bother to listen and respond.
Maybe because the Fab Four never really did drugs and any drug references are purely coincidental (at least according to Macca's rewriting of Beatle history)
😂 They did so many! Although it must be said that McCartney was definitely the most sensible of the four. He was offered things like DMT from Jefferson Airplane and PCP (Angel Dust) from Harry Nilsson, but turned them both down.
@@thecharlesbliss "Sensible" maybe in terms of use, but he was the only one Beatle to be imprisioned (in Japan, coincidentally) for being very unsensible about impoirting drugs into Japan.
@@Housemartinuk Yes this happened on more than one occasion - and Linda was equally guilty of importing drugs across borders. If I'm not mistaken, Ringo is the only one without a criminal record due to drugs.
Paul doesn’t rewrite history any more than any of the other Beatles. John changed his story every interview which is much more than Paul ever “rewrote” history
They knew that they wanted it live and were not “wild men” like their contemporaries. Just watch the anthology, the uncut version, and they all say the same thing - that they couldn’t do music when they were loaded.
Nicely and elegantly done.
You deserve more eyes on what you do.
Hearing Cold Turkey when I was very young told me enough about drugs.
When I saw this video the other day I didn’t bother to check how many views it had, and I’m flabbergasted! You should have a million subscribers, dude! Keep up with the work, I and many other beatlemanics will be greatful 🙏🏽
Haha thanks, Mirlo! The channel has only just launched, but plenty more Beatle content to look forward to!✌
I find you to be one of the best people I have seen on TH-cam. I can listen to you for hours. Well done, and I must say, you really have a great grasp on life/death. Luckily, I have no addictions, but, I am sure like many I do not like death though it comes for everyone. Keep up the good work.
Thanks, Channa - I really appreciate that! ✌️
very absorbing and satisfying video, well done.
Thanks for watching, Robert. Glad you enjoyed it!
If you watch the Beatles performance at shea stadium John Lennon is no doubt on something very potent. In fact years later during the anthology recordings and interviews George Harrison said I am not sure what John was on during the shea stadium performance but he was surely on something because he went mad at several points during the night.
I like the part when he starts playing the keyboard with his elbow!
You wouldn't need to be on stimulants to high as a kite in that atmosphere/situation though
what an interesting cocktail of subjects for a yt channel. I'm in
Very nice. Interested to see more.
If there’s nothing then there’s nothing to be afraid of! (Right?)
-Deegan
Try going gently into that!....Mind you do it every night I supose
@@randybackgammon890 i have pretty vivid dreams almost nightly
@@randybackgammon890 your comment made me crack a smile though. Thanks
A reason may be individual capacity. I think they also had a healthy fear to begin with. John was lucky, with the big H. And seeing your fellow musicians die may have helped. Plus it doesn't seem if alcohol was a big part.
Thanks, Peter. Yes it does seem like their Northern constitution may have played a part! It seems like they got over drinking alcohol for the most part when they were turned on to marijuana, although John famously drank a lot during his "Lost Weekend" in the 1970s, which was probably his most self-destructive period - and there are interviews with him after that time when he admits he was surprised he didn't die because he was so out of his mind and even jumped out of a moving car once! ✌️
@@thecharlesbliss Thanks for your thoughtful reply. I used to like to have a good time too, but some people just don't know when to stop. Have a great day!
Yoko said the heroin they got was appalling quality and available sporadically, to the extent they didnt even get that badly physically addicted to it. As for the other stuff, LSD rarely if ever kills and they wernt extreme users of other class A drugs.
Love the beatles, love mary jane and im ready when to die when its my time
I don't have a fear of death. I have a fear of dying. Who remembers the billions of years of history before the moment you were born? No-one, because you were "dead" the whole time. You didn't exist then, just like you won't when you die. It's no big deal; death is just like birth in reverse. My fear of dying involves all the usual fears about not making a mess, but, as a songwriter, I also worry that I'm going to have the most incredible idea for a song and then croak. x
Hey Stephen ✌️ It's an important distinction. I always think of the Woody Allen quote: "I'm not afraid to die, I just don't want to be there when it happens."
It's an interesting point. My personal view, which is based upon the express teachings of Lord Jesus, is that life really begins in death. There are many who claim that death is a "non-existence" but all the teachings of God and the prophets say otherwise.
@@65TossTrap I'm very interested in these perspectives from the world's religions, prophets and mystics - and the idea that perhaps consciousness is not restricted to the physical body. John Lennon once said: “I'm not afraid of death because I don't believe in it. It's just getting out of one car and into another.” Research studies are showing that the psychedelic experience can catalyse these mystical states, where terminally-ill cancer patients have a realisation that their life somehow continues after death. If you're interested in The Beatles and religion, I would recommend The Gospel According to The Beatles by Steve Turner, which I will be making a video on in the future ✌
Read _Japanese Death Poems._
'You didn't exist then'?.....My subconscious might say otherwise
Charles, this video is my first exposure to your work. I was wondering what type of literature you go in for. Given that you declare "death" (or human mortality) as one of your major preoccupations, I was wondering if you'd read any of the following works: Schopenhauer's "On the Sufferings of the World," Freud's "Civilization and its Discontents," and, especially, Becker's "The Denial of Death."
Thanks for watching, Jeff! At the moment my research for the book is focused on Beatles literature, psychedelic literature and death studies - and philosophy will be a big part of it, including William James. Schopenhauer has a wonderful essay called 'On an Apparent Intention in the Fate of the Individual', which argues that as you look back over your lifetime, it can appear to have a structure and plan, as if it were composed by a novelist. I am a fan of Freud and Jung, but haven't read the Becker book you mentioned, so will check it out. Thanks for the recommendation! ✌️
I assume you’ve read “Riding So High: The Beatles and Drugs”?
Hey Jared. I have - love it. I'll be doing a video book review on it in the future!
John used lsd during seargent Pepper not Abbey Road
Hey Patrick. I said that John accidentally took LSD whilst recording at Abbey Road, meaning the studio rather than the album (technically, it was still called EMI Studios at that point). But you're correct - he accidentally took it on 21 March 1967, while recording the backing vocal track on Getting Better from Sgt. Pepper ✌
Thanks
simple answer: you cant overdose on acid
True - but they took a lot more than that!
🤣
Actually there is one instance of a group of people mistaking crystal LSD and snorting an enormous dose.
They didn't die but they came pretty close to it.
Has anyone had a pyscadelic expirence WITHOUT drugs?
Yes, of course.
@@wangobadankas4038 I'd be interested to know what yours was like.Ive had about 4.Never went looking for them.They just happen about once a decade.The weirdest was comming home from Venice after about 14hrs without food.It was midnight and everything went Purple Haze for about an hour.Not hallucination exactly but everything looking and sounding inexplicably different,time going backwards and an ever deepening feeling of peace and love.Came on without me really noticing over some minutes and ended completely abruptly when I walked through my front door.Very odd,very nice.Had a few like that.Always this feeling of increasing ocean of peace.Nothing crazy or scary about it, totally out of the norm yet the norm at the same time if you know what I mean....What's your take?
Also different people have different susceptibilities to addictions. Be they drugs, alcohol, smoking, gambling, sex, love, shopping, food, etc. My only susceptibility is to romantic love. Harder to come by than most drugs. Won't kill you but can drive you mentally ill.
This channel appears to be something of an omnibus. I didn't know what to expect when I clicked on the video, and after some introductory discursive remarks, I was treated to a tutorial on the workings of pinball machines. LOL With You (and Me) Tube you never know.
Not to parse words but I think you can say they overdosed but never died. After all, John had a heroin problem
Hey Scott. Thanks for your comment. I'm not aware of a time when they took so much of anything that they had to seek medical help, for example. Although there is the famous Two Junkies interview with Lennon and Yoko during the Get Back sessions, which John interrupts by being sick. Probably an indication that he was "abusing his body", as he later admitted as you can see in Peter Jackson's documentary, although the interview is not actually seen in Get Back.
why was Paul in 1967 looked so thin?
I heard he used cocaine to endure the massive workload he did.
Honest question. I must be mislead and ignorant about drug use.
Hey César. I'm not sure about his weight in 1967 - but he was using cocaine around the time they were recording Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, although he said he got tired of it quite quickly because of its short-lasting effects. He tells one story of going to the "check out the toilets" in a London club and running into Jimi Hendrix, but before he returned to his table the effects of the cocaine had already worn off. Paul, since 1965, has always been more of a cannabis guy, and although he tried various drugs, that's the one that he took regularly. If you're interested in this, I would recommend Riding So High: The Beatles and Drugs by Joe Goodden, which is a fantastic book that I'll be doing a video on soon ✌️
@@thecharlesbliss He also says that he quit cocaine b/c he didn't like the way it burned his throat and worried for his voice. However, some people say that even in the 70s he wouldn't refuse a bump if offered at a party, though he was no longer a habitual user.
@@Kieop There's an interesting bootleg called 'A Toot and a Snore in 1974', which was the last time that Lennon and McCartney are thought to have played together in which you can hear Lennon asking Stevie Wonder if he wants a line of cocaine: "You wanna snort, Steve? A toot? It's goin' round." I wonder if McCartney was also on it during that session.
@@thecharlesbliss We can only speculate (though I would vote yes, since Paul hadn't seen John in a long time and would want to fit in). However, since the session was being recorded, he may have declined, since he didn't like playing high. But again, it was John's session, so who knows? Ironically, that bootleg was available on TH-cam (perhaps still is on a different page), but as I was going through my reply inbox today, someone had replied to a post of mine on that video, but when I went to reply to them, the video was no longer available, so it was VERY recently taken down.
Amphetamine -- "Preludin" -- and cocaine have the same basic effect. But cocaine doesn't last long.
There is no such thing as Death. I have the evidence to prove that. Interestingly enough, I have had only a handful of people even bother to listen and respond.
Maybe because the Fab Four never really did drugs and any drug references are purely coincidental (at least according to Macca's rewriting of Beatle history)
😂 They did so many! Although it must be said that McCartney was definitely the most sensible of the four. He was offered things like DMT from Jefferson Airplane and PCP (Angel Dust) from Harry Nilsson, but turned them both down.
@@thecharlesbliss "Sensible" maybe in terms of use, but he was the only one Beatle to be imprisioned (in Japan, coincidentally) for being very unsensible about impoirting drugs into Japan.
He changes his story constantly
@@Housemartinuk Yes this happened on more than one occasion - and Linda was equally guilty of importing drugs across borders. If I'm not mistaken, Ringo is the only one without a criminal record due to drugs.
Paul doesn’t rewrite history any more than any of the other Beatles. John changed his story every interview which is much more than Paul ever “rewrote” history
Lol