A heartbreaking lament masked in soothing music, and one of the coolest grooves on the album, reminiscent of those early Beatles hits! Thanks for watching! 🥰
For No One is one of my favorite songs by the Beatles......the melody is fantastic. The use of the French Horn is fantastic. Such mature writing for men in their early/mid 20's.
@@helenespaulding7562 He helped a great deal, but often it was a case of realising their own ideas. In this case, Paul thought about overdubding his piano part with a harpsichord but GM had a clavichord at home and suggested they use that (he billed EMI £5 for the hire). Paul played it. According to GM, the French horn for the solo was "Paul's choice" but Paul had only a rough idea of what he wanted Alan Civil to play. He hummed it in the studio and George wrote it down, but it wasn't quite right. Civil thought they were unsure exactly what they wanted. He tried it several times until Paul liked what he heard.
@@strathman7501 ah, I love to run into a “sensi” on any band or artist! 😁. I e done a fair amount with Zeppelin and Robert Plant in particular. But definitely not The Beatles, although I loved them like we all did back then.
Also, the line: "She says that long ago/She knew someone/But now he's gone/She doesn't need him." For anyone who's had a true broken heart, that hits hard.
Fun fact: Each of the first four songs on side two of Revolver ends in a different key from where it starts. I think that's a subtle part of what gives this fabulous album a sense of constantly driving on to the next musical adventure. GDS, AYBCS, FN and DR don't resolve onto their tonic keys and that sets the listener up to hear more. Nearly sixty years later, I still can't get enough of Revolver!
Paul's versatile voice is an understatement to say the least. When you compare, "til there was you," and "Yesterday" with Long Tall Sally, Kansas city, Why don't we do it in the road, and Monkberry moon delight, you can just tell it is the same person, but the voice is all over the place in range and timber.
The Beatles were such masters of melody! 👌🥰 I was curious about the horn used on "For No One" so looked up the song details and it was a French horn played by Alan Civil. Then I rabbit holed some related info: "Alan Civil OBE (13 June 1929 - 19 March 1989) was a British horn player. As well as his work in classical music, Civil played the horn solo on The Beatles' song "For No One" from the album Revolver and was one of only five session musicians to get a named credit on a Beatles recording. Civil was also part of the orchestra crescendo in the song "A Day in the Life" from the album Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band." And then I looked up what "OBE" was: "The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire is a British order of chivalry, rewarding contributions to the arts and sciences, work with charitable and welfare organizations, and public service outside the civil service"
For No One is probably my favorite song on the album. That Horn!! Just wish it was a bit longer, but back in the day, they tried to stick to the 2 to 3 mins time until Hey Jude.
The song "Dr Robert" is about Robert Freymann, a New York doctor known for dispensing vitamin B-12 shots laced with amphetamines to wealthy clientele. "There's some fellow in New York, and in the States we'd hear people say: "You can get everything off him; any pills you want." It was a big racket, but a joke too about this fellow who cured everyone of everything with all these pills and tranquilizers, injections for this and that; he just kept New York high. That's what Doctor Robert is all about, just a pill doctor who sees you all right". - Paul McCartney, 1967
For No One is one of the best Paul songs, nearly on the level of Eleanor Rigby - and both even on the same album together with the also fantastic Here There and Everywhere. John's contributions were not on the same level here except for ... well you will get there: Tomorrow Never Knows, the first song they recoreded for the album and the most progressive. But the sound collage was also mainly Paul's and George Martins as John wanted Tibetian monks chanting on it. George got 3 songs on the album, the most credits on any Beatles LP and all great songs.
John's Revolver songs along with Rain were far more influential to the 60s generation and well just better than Paul's efforts which mostly couldn't even be classified as rock music and were rooted in the past. I always thought Here, There and Everywhere was shite. Kids faced with the prospect of dying in Vietnam, exploring the counter-culture, drugs and so on were turned on by the Lennon songs of floating downstream, floating upstream, rain rain I don't mind it's just a state of mind. Mums and Dads would be more likely to dig the Paul songs..especially the Mums.
For No One has such a beguiling melody and arrangement, it’s another of theirs that makes my heart swell. And those horns ❤ As to Dr Robert, it sounds a bit obvious now, this dodgy doc who can make you feel fine. But as the other commenter said, this isn’t a cliched composite dodgy drug doctor, but a real person. Over and above that, it’s yet another Beatle classic. The remaining songs too are among my all-time Beatle favourites. This and the album before it, Rubber Soul, are just wonderful. Mind you, all their others are also wonderful ❤
And it just dawned on me that maybe the doctor in "Doctor Robert" is the same doctor sung about in Procol Harum's song "Robert's Box" off of their 1973 album Grand Hotel! 🤯 "Doctor where's your remedy? I've got enough to pay the fee Can't you see I'm awful sick? I'll pay you well to do the trick Doctor where's your magic box There's no one here to count the cost Name your price and make the sale There's no-one here to tell the tale Doctor please don't lock your door I've never troubled you before Just a pinch to ease the pain I'll never trouble you again"
My daughter who is now 9, told me when she was 8 that the Beatles sticks in her memory and head, not so much the other music. She listens to a lot of today's music . I think the abrupt endings do that with short songs, and also the very melodic approach.
Loved your reference to the "dream-like pocket." It seems to me you'll find surprising interludes like that sprinkled throughout gobs of Beatles songs. To my ear, John brought the raw brittle rock edge to songs, while Paul's melodic orientation often coupled with that to meld a more basic tune into something extraordinary. 😊
Both wonderful songs and so different. McCartney wrote so many great songs about his girlfriend Jane Asher. For No One and You Won’t See Me from their previous album Rubber Soul are two of my top ten Beatles songs. We Can Work it Out was another great song about their relationship. I can’t imagine what it was like for Jane having their relationship written about in such a public way. John while not singing about his feelings too much until his solo career would take interesting, somewhat controversial subjects and put them to innovative, funky melodies with changing time signatures, amazing instrumentation and his great vocals. To me this album along with their previous album Rubber Soul are the band at their creative peak learning how to use the studio to create new innovative sounds but still keeping their pop/rock routes with albums that had incredible consistency of song writing and production.
@ Some say he wrote 14 songs about Jane. I’ve read the list and they’re well known songs to Beatles fans and most were early McCartney written love songs that had less contentious or regretful lyrics. It’s hard to know for sure how accurate the list is because they could just be love songs that were the subject of so much of The Beatles early music. Paul who lost his mother as a teenager was the most romantic song writer in The Beatles and certainly seemed to bare his soul when it came to his oftentimes conflicted relationship with Miss Asher.
This is loosely based on their dentist, who slipped LSD into John and George's drink without their knowledge. So they were both soon taking this during the period when this album was made. Paul was the last one who eventually took the drug leading to his idea for Sgt, Pepper. But they all were quoted as stating they never did drugs while in the studio.
In a 1980 interview that Fontenot says "muddied the issue further", Lennon said the song was "mainly about drugs and pills" but: "It was about myself. I was the one that carried all the pills on tour."
That’s who I thought it was about as well. It’s no surprise that John would be ambiguous about it later when he was living in NY and the country of law suits.
When reactors read their comments from notes (as our host here does) I can't help but wonder if they're their real thoughts or if if they just dialled up and AI bot for help.
Dr. Robert is another fun song, but as I commented on yesterday's video, "For No One" is one of my top five favorite Beatle songs. I love the melody, but the heartbreaking lyrics get me every time I hear them. It's just a fantastic song, IMO.
Wait till you get to Got to get you into my life.......great song ...I know you heard Earth version but this one is great......then tomorrow never knows....wow for that time period
Paul would continue his relationship with Jane Asher until 1968 (2 more years). They would even get engaged after this album. And yes, dr. Robert was inspired in a real person.
I don't know where you get the idea that Bob Dylan introduced them to weed. They first tried it during their time in Hamburg, along with various other stimulants.
@@richardcork6918 Weed isn't a stimulant. All they did in Hamburg was drink alcohol and take amphetamine pills {stimulants). They didn't start using weed until 1964. John Lennon called their 1965 album "Rubber Soul" the pot album.
@@richardcork6918 They just drank alcohol and popped pills (stimulants} in Hamberg. They didn't do weed until 1964, during their US tour. John Lennon also called their 1965 album "Rubber Soul" the pot album.
I'm starting to wonder if you're ready for PET SOUNDS? When you mention hearing instruments you don't usually hear on rock albums... well, that 100% PET SOUNDS.
DOCTOR ROBERT is a great song to perform live, by the way. It's not usually performed - most bands use TICKET TO RIDE, but lately DOCTOR ROBERT, PAPERBACK WRITER are used to ignite an audience.
Hello! Well, you just helped inspire me to add Pet Sounds to the Patreon full album reaction poll. So far it's in the lead, so I might be hearing it next week just so you're aware.. thank you 🙂
@@retroreactions.... PET SOUNDS was an unintended month-long immersion for me. I fell in and did not want to get out. For a month, I listened to it and only it. I kept finding new treasures on each go-round, too, and often came away with new a favorite. Time after time. There isn't one song on that album that didn't become My New Favorite The only album to do that. I can takea days-long road trip and just have PET SOUNDS, and I'll re-start the love.
@@retroreactions.... We have too many of our own songs to play to be a cover band, so we choose our covers very carefully - usually as a break-time's opening number OR a end-of-set number. But we also recognize "dulled out audiences" which we and other bands fail to comprehend earlier, and play our own 'wake up call' songs. But we can find a few Beatles songs that ALWAYS kicks up the crowd - AND YOUR BIRD CAN SING.. or MR. KITE (we're a 6 piece band so we can easily handle 2 keyboards). GLASS ONION or fun early songs like ANY TIME AT ALL. Or Dylan's POSITIVELY 4TH STREET is a good high-interest sing-along but also a Calming Song. Perfect for us to slip off for a break.
Allen Civil and Paul almost to blows on how to play the horn on this one. Civil told John to get him away from me because I'm about to beat him up. John & George had to cool him down. They told him don't let him bother you, that's just Paul. Civil said he didn't understand how they can work with someone like that. By listening to this track I think Civil knew what he was doing, it's great. I don't get what Paul was unhappy with. The story about the near fight came directly from 20 year old recording engineer Geoff Emery who producer George Martin hired in April, 1966 to be the head engineer on Beatles records. This kid was like a genuis in the studio. His first Beatles Lp was "Revolver". That near fight was witnessed by Emerck, he had a lot of great stories and I believe wrote a book a few years before his death several years ago. This song is great on every level and Dr. Robert is also a cool track.
Bullshit. Near fight? Blows? No. To anyone stumbling across that post, please disregard it and read any reliable Beatles history (including Geoff Emerick - correct spelling) for the true and very different story.
Disaster! One of my sound levels has failed... Horn solo completely missing. 'For no one' is one of my faves although Paul's vocals had the odd glitch. Doc Robert more of a filler I think.
@@retroreactions.... Very Happy new year BTW. Have to get my clued up son on the case... all the spaghetti is intimidating. Probably run it through my huge '70s speakers ... that'll be something!
A heartbreaking lament masked in soothing music, and one of the coolest grooves on the album, reminiscent of those early Beatles hits! Thanks for watching! 🥰
For No One is one of my favorite songs by the Beatles......the melody is fantastic. The use of the French Horn is fantastic. Such mature writing for men in their early/mid 20's.
George Martin might have had something to do with it. Didn’t he often contribute allot to the arranging?
@@helenespaulding7562 He helped a great deal, but often it was a case of realising their own ideas. In this case, Paul thought about overdubding his piano part with a harpsichord but GM had a clavichord at home and suggested they use that (he billed EMI £5 for the hire). Paul played it. According to GM, the French horn for the solo was "Paul's choice" but Paul had only a rough idea of what he wanted Alan Civil to play. He hummed it in the studio and George wrote it down, but it wasn't quite right. Civil thought they were unsure exactly what they wanted. He tried it several times until Paul liked what he heard.
@@strathman7501 ah, I love to run into a “sensi” on any band or artist! 😁. I e done a fair amount with Zeppelin and Robert Plant in particular. But definitely not The Beatles, although I loved them like we all did back then.
I love the lyric, “You want her. You need her. And yet you don’t believe her.”
Also, the line: "She says that long ago/She knew someone/But now he's gone/She doesn't need him." For anyone who's had a true broken heart, that hits hard.
@ it may be the most beautifully painful song ever written. So melancholy and brilliant
Fun fact: Each of the first four songs on side two of Revolver ends in a different key from where it starts.
I think that's a subtle part of what gives this fabulous album a sense of constantly driving on to the next musical adventure. GDS, AYBCS, FN and DR don't resolve onto their tonic keys and that sets the listener up to hear more.
Nearly sixty years later, I still can't get enough of Revolver!
Doctor Robert is one of my favs on Revolver. The guitar tone during the verses and the twelve string drone during chorus are great.
One of my faves from the album too, as I'll say in my closing comments 😊 Thanks!
It's a highly underrated song. That main riff changes a couple of times but is a killer all the way through.
It was my favourite too when I first got into Revolver. Still in my top5 of this album
Dr. Robert is one of the few songs that fade out as well as ends.
I love how Claus drew all their faces with blood shot, weed immersed eyes.
Paul's versatile voice is an understatement to say the least. When you compare, "til there was you," and "Yesterday" with Long Tall Sally, Kansas city, Why don't we do it in the road, and Monkberry moon delight, you can just tell it is the same person, but the voice is all over the place in range and timber.
Perhaps the abrupt ending to the song was how it ended. Maybe he just woke up one day, and she was gone out of his head, finally.
Wow, what a beautiful song.....the end of a relationship is always so sad 😞
If this was a soccer match, a clear 3-0 victory for 'For No One'
The Beatles were such masters of melody! 👌🥰 I was curious about the horn used on "For No One" so looked up the song details and it was a French horn played by Alan Civil. Then I rabbit holed some related info:
"Alan Civil OBE (13 June 1929 - 19 March 1989) was a British horn player.
As well as his work in classical music, Civil played the horn solo on The Beatles' song "For No One" from the album Revolver and was one of only five session musicians to get a named credit on a Beatles recording. Civil was also part of the orchestra crescendo in the song "A Day in the Life" from the album Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band."
And then I looked up what "OBE" was:
"The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire is a British order of chivalry, rewarding contributions to the arts and sciences, work with charitable and welfare organizations, and public service outside the civil service"
Definitely was an amazing man!
For No One is probably my favorite song on the album. That Horn!! Just wish it was a bit longer, but back in the day, they tried to stick to the 2 to 3 mins time until Hey Jude.
Great! Yea, it's nice that they went longer later in their career with the song lengths...
The song "Dr Robert" is about Robert Freymann, a New York doctor known for dispensing vitamin B-12 shots laced with amphetamines to wealthy clientele.
"There's some fellow in New York, and in the States we'd hear people say: "You can get everything off him; any pills you want." It was a big racket, but a joke too about this fellow who cured everyone of everything with all these pills and tranquilizers, injections for this and that; he just kept New York high. That's what Doctor Robert is all about, just a pill doctor who sees you all right".
- Paul McCartney, 1967
For No One is one of the best Paul songs, nearly on the level of Eleanor Rigby - and both even on the same album together with the also fantastic Here There and Everywhere. John's contributions were not on the same level here except for ... well you will get there: Tomorrow Never Knows, the first song they recoreded for the album and the most progressive. But the sound collage was also mainly Paul's and George Martins as John wanted Tibetian monks chanting on it. George got 3 songs on the album, the most credits on any Beatles LP and all great songs.
You nailed it, spot on.
John's Revolver songs along with Rain were far more influential to the 60s generation and well just better than Paul's efforts which mostly couldn't even be classified as rock music and were rooted in the past. I always thought Here, There and Everywhere was shite. Kids faced with the prospect of dying in Vietnam, exploring the counter-culture, drugs and so on were turned on by the Lennon songs of floating downstream, floating upstream, rain rain I don't mind it's just a state of mind. Mums and Dads would be more likely to dig the Paul songs..especially the Mums.
For No One has such a beguiling melody and arrangement, it’s another of theirs that makes my heart swell. And those horns ❤
As to Dr Robert, it sounds a bit obvious now, this dodgy doc who can make you feel fine. But as the other commenter said, this isn’t a cliched composite dodgy drug doctor, but a real person.
Over and above that, it’s yet another Beatle classic. The remaining songs too are among my all-time Beatle favourites. This and the album before it, Rubber Soul, are just wonderful. Mind you, all their others are also wonderful ❤
And it just dawned on me that maybe the doctor in "Doctor Robert" is the same doctor sung about in Procol Harum's song "Robert's Box" off of their 1973 album Grand Hotel! 🤯
"Doctor where's your remedy?
I've got enough to pay the fee
Can't you see I'm awful sick?
I'll pay you well to do the trick
Doctor where's your magic box
There's no one here to count the cost
Name your price and make the sale
There's no-one here to tell the tale
Doctor please don't lock your door
I've never troubled you before
Just a pinch to ease the pain
I'll never trouble you again"
Ya never know!
My daughter who is now 9, told me when she was 8 that the Beatles sticks in her memory and head, not so much the other music. She listens to a lot of today's music . I think the abrupt endings do that with short songs, and also the very melodic approach.
She has great taste in music!
Loved your reference to the "dream-like pocket." It seems to me you'll find surprising interludes like that sprinkled throughout gobs of Beatles songs. To my ear, John brought the raw brittle rock edge to songs, while Paul's melodic orientation often coupled with that to meld a more basic tune into something extraordinary. 😊
Hey Jerry! Great mini analysis. Thanks for watching and for your support 😊
Both wonderful songs and so different. McCartney wrote so many great songs about his girlfriend Jane Asher. For No One and You Won’t See Me from their previous album Rubber Soul are two of my top ten Beatles songs. We Can Work it Out was another great song about their relationship. I can’t imagine what it was like for Jane having their relationship written about in such a public way. John while not singing about his feelings too much until his solo career would take interesting, somewhat controversial subjects and put them to innovative, funky melodies with changing time signatures, amazing instrumentation and his great vocals. To me this album along with their previous album Rubber Soul are the band at their creative peak learning how to use the studio to create new innovative sounds but still keeping their pop/rock routes with albums that had incredible consistency of song writing and production.
Never knew about his relationship with Jane until now!
@ Some say he wrote 14 songs about Jane. I’ve read the list and they’re well known songs to Beatles fans and most were early McCartney written love songs that had less contentious or regretful lyrics. It’s hard to know for sure how accurate the list is because they could just be love songs that were the subject of so much of The Beatles early music. Paul who lost his mother as a teenager was the most romantic song writer in The Beatles and certainly seemed to bare his soul when it came to his oftentimes conflicted relationship with Miss Asher.
This is loosely based on their dentist, who slipped LSD into John and George's drink without their knowledge. So they were both soon taking this during the period when this album was made. Paul was the last one who eventually took the drug leading to his idea for Sgt, Pepper. But they all were quoted as stating they never did drugs while in the studio.
In a 1980 interview that Fontenot says "muddied the issue further", Lennon said the song was "mainly about drugs and pills" but: "It was about myself. I was the one that carried all the pills on tour."
That’s who I thought it was about as well. It’s no surprise that John would be ambiguous about it later when he was living in NY and the country of law suits.
It’s always interesting to know the backstory of these quirky little songs! 😊
For sure. I bet the subject matter got even more interesting in their future albums....
I think the loss of a pretty woman has been the inspiration for many songs
Snappy little tunes. 💙💙🎵🎶🎶
🤏 Absosnappinlutely! Happy Friday!!
Nice! 😃🥰Happy Friday!!
Thank you for enjoying this amazing song and offering your interesting thoughts and analysis! Yours is my most favorite Beatles reactions channel.
When reactors read their comments from notes (as our host here does) I can't help but wonder if they're their real thoughts or if if they just dialled up and AI bot for help.
Aw, thank you so much for the kind words. It's great to hear that!! 🤍
Great stuff! 🙂
There were and are Dr. Roberts everywhere.
For sure...thanks for watching!
Gold!!!
Dr. Robert is another fun song, but as I commented on yesterday's video, "For No One" is one of my top five favorite Beatle songs. I love the melody, but the heartbreaking lyrics get me every time I hear them. It's just a fantastic song, IMO.
No arguments here! 😊
Wait till you get to Got to get you into my life.......great song ...I know you heard Earth version but this one is great......then tomorrow never knows....wow for that time period
Hey man, love your channel.
Hey James! Great to hear that, thank you so much!!
It reminded you of One After 909. Your're welcome.
Yes!
Dr Robert is one I’d forgotten. I see why. 🙄😉
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Dr Robert was a dentist who gave George and John LSD and I believe he was British not in the US
Paul would continue his relationship with Jane Asher until 1968 (2 more years). They would even get engaged after this album.
And yes, dr. Robert was inspired in a real person.
Oh wow thanks!
One rumour is that Doctor Robert was actually Bob Dylan, who famously introduced them to weed.
I don't know where you get the idea that Bob Dylan introduced them to weed. They first tried it during their time in Hamburg, along with various other stimulants.
@@richardcork6918 Weed isn't a stimulant. All they did in Hamburg was drink alcohol and take amphetamine pills {stimulants). They didn't start using weed until 1964. John Lennon called their 1965 album "Rubber Soul" the pot album.
@@richardcork6918 They just drank alcohol and popped pills (stimulants} in Hamberg. They didn't do weed until 1964, during their US tour. John Lennon also called their 1965 album "Rubber Soul" the pot album.
For No One is a fantastic song. Dr. Robert never did it for me.
Comfortably Numb Alpha = Dr. Robert
Great chord riff on Dr. Robert. I am always disappointed when reactors don't like it.
I'm starting to wonder if you're ready for PET SOUNDS? When you mention hearing instruments you don't usually hear on rock albums... well, that 100% PET SOUNDS.
DOCTOR ROBERT is a great song to perform live, by the way. It's not usually performed - most bands use TICKET TO RIDE, but lately DOCTOR ROBERT, PAPERBACK WRITER are used to ignite an audience.
Hello! Well, you just helped inspire me to add Pet Sounds to the Patreon full album reaction poll. So far it's in the lead, so I might be hearing it next week just so you're aware.. thank you 🙂
Bet it gets the crowd going!
@@retroreactions.... PET SOUNDS was an unintended month-long immersion for me. I fell in and did not want to get out. For a month, I listened to it and only it. I kept finding new treasures on each go-round, too, and often came away with new a favorite. Time after time. There isn't one song on that album that didn't become My New Favorite The only album to do that. I can takea days-long road trip and just have PET SOUNDS, and I'll re-start the love.
@@retroreactions.... We have too many of our own songs to play to be a cover band, so we choose our covers very carefully - usually as a break-time's opening number OR a end-of-set number. But we also recognize "dulled out audiences" which we and other bands fail to comprehend earlier, and play our own 'wake up call' songs. But we can find a few Beatles songs that ALWAYS kicks up the crowd - AND YOUR BIRD CAN SING.. or MR. KITE (we're a 6 piece band so we can easily handle 2 keyboards). GLASS ONION or fun early songs like ANY TIME AT ALL. Or Dylan's POSITIVELY 4TH STREET is a good high-interest sing-along but also a Calming Song. Perfect for us to slip off for a break.
Have you ever done ASMR? You look familiar to me.
LOL you're first! You get the medal today 🥇 I have no clue what ASMR is..... I have not and I will not......😏
Allen Civil and Paul almost to blows on how to play the horn on this one. Civil told John to get him away from me because I'm about to beat him up. John & George had to cool him down. They told him don't let him bother you, that's just Paul. Civil said he didn't understand how they can work with someone like that. By listening to this track I think Civil knew what he was doing, it's great. I don't get what Paul was unhappy with.
The story about the near fight came directly from 20 year old recording engineer Geoff Emery who producer George Martin hired in April, 1966 to be the head engineer on Beatles records. This kid was like a genuis in the studio. His first Beatles Lp was "Revolver". That near fight was witnessed by Emerck, he had a lot of great stories and I believe wrote a book a few years before his death several years ago.
This song is great on every level and Dr. Robert is also a cool track.
Bullshit. Near fight? Blows? No. To anyone stumbling across that post, please disregard it and read any reliable Beatles history (including Geoff Emerick - correct spelling) for the true and very different story.
Awesome info, thanks!
@@retroreactions.... Not awesome. This is fanstasy.
Disaster! One of my sound levels has failed... Horn solo completely missing. 'For no one' is one of my faves although Paul's vocals had the odd glitch. Doc Robert more of a filler I think.
Aw, hope you can get it fixed/replaced asap!
@@retroreactions.... Very Happy new year BTW. Have to get my clued up son on the case... all the spaghetti is intimidating. Probably run it through my huge '70s speakers ... that'll be something!
At the time there was no drug culture, so the song Dr Roberts went in one ear and out the other
Sorry? There was no drug culture in 1966? It was one of the defining aspects of the decade, and the Beatles were very familiar with it.