Story about The Beatles and drug usage around the Sgt. Pepper album in the late 1960s. Interviews with John, Paul, George, Ringo and producer George Martin! www.ultimate-guitar.com/news/g...
I'd actually find it more strange if you told me a band that sung about yellow submarines, creatures in the sky, being walruses, Mr. Kite etc. didn't take drugs.
Yeah. Real class act.Then countless numbers of youth stated to take it. Countless cases of death by drug overdose for almost fifty years. The war on drugs was lost a long time ago, partly because of these bastards.
Julie Witt You're moronic. The war on drugs is and was always going to be a failure regardless if a Beatle said he tried lsd. People always have and always will self medicate. By the way how do you feel about tobacco and alcohol?
1:57 - 3:06 Paul actually does have a very strong point about the media in that, when celebrities are asked certain questions and they are honest, they are often blamed for their answers and the way they are interpreted. Yet it's the media that chooses to disclose the information to the public. If they are so worried about the problems certain things said would cause, why publish it?
Paul answers questions in a studio *George Martin* answers questions in studio *George Harrison* answers questions in studio *ringo* answers questions in a luxurious villa atop a hill overlooking paradise God I love ringo
They can be heard. It was a commercial decision not to use them, they are actually dull and boring. You WILL be disappointed, I had the same expectations but was disappointed.
Ringo nailed it.He`s right, it`s o.k to take a little something while your rocking out .But if you are in the studio on bought and paid for studio time it`s simply unprofessional to get sand-stoned on anything.
What Ringo says toward the end is absolutely true. All four have stated the same. The general public tends to think that The Beatles were high as Mr. Kite while recording. The fact is, the official tracks were performed with nothing stronger than English Tea in their system. They DID have sessions while stoned. None of those tracks were any good, but it DID inspire them with ideas for future (sober) recording sessions. I also like what George had to say: "It was funny, because we had tried to get him to try it for 18 months." So Paul was the last to try it, but the first to get chewed a new arse for simply being honest with the press. -----> No good deed goes unpunished.
Yeah exactly. The drugs they took did not enhance their performance while on them, but they enhanced and opened up their creative process throughout their career.
People confuse enhanced their creative process with drugs, when it simply called maturing. As they matured as musicians they expanded creatively. Drug use diminished an already brilliant mind. Yes. It's true drugs can be a catalyst for creation, but most of the time not for anything lasting
He did on a few occasions, but those sessions never produced any official recordings. His most famous situation took place during Pepper. He "accidentally" dropped acid and he couldn't even perform.
Paul was silly. By this point Paul should have know the nature of the press. People from the press would sell their mothers for some cash. Paul talked high and mighty and the rest of the three got into trouble and were busted.
@@user-jz6pq4zx3e I'm not sure which interview it was in, but I know he also said it was a bit strange that Paul was the one who resisted taking LCD for so long and suddenly after taking it he was on TV talking about it
@@gregorywoollcombe-gosson5650 With all the shit storm that happened the previous year with John's "Bigger than Jesus" comment one would expect Beatles to have better judgement when talking to Press. Paul being sanctimonious is quite silly knowing all to well that Press wanted to get them.
@@primalhealth5157 I don't think that's necessarily true, although acid played a part, mostly with Lennon and Harrison, a lot went into their growth in experimental music, such as their experiences with fame, them stopping touring which allowed them to focus more time on the recorded product (which led them to make music without them having to perform it live), and just the fact that they're all musical geniuses who naturally wanted to expand their style.
left-handedness.. ssst ;) but that's the secret. O yeah and before I forgot.. drugs.. You got to take those. Name me one left-handed musician on drugs that isn't a legendary genius. Paul, Jimi, David etc etc.
To be fair, the press probably targeted Paul because he was Mr Nice Guy, the diplomat of the group, and they thought, we'll put this joker on the spot, whereas the other three would've told them all words to the effect of "It's none of your business" and "get off my property".
Because it was a different world in the 60s. Pot was catagorized as a narcotic and most people had never been exposed to it if they had even heard about it at all. You could do some serious prison time for very small amounts of just possession of pot.
Ringo speaks the truth. The odd misconception is, drugs are taken to find creativity but stifle the output. Best to take drugs to enjoy the moment and then write about your experiences.
Malz Cuatro Where did I say he wasn’t talented? I just stated when it came to hard partying he was not as into experimenting as the other three. Oh and I’m a gigging professional bass player/guitar player for over 30 years, so your assumptions on my musical knowledge is also wrong.😎
Dante N. The part in the vid where Ringo says that was playing right when i read your comment at the same time in perfect syncrony. I think im having a flashback.
Wow, god bless Paul's honesty (@ 2:40) He nailed it, he knew exactly what was going on, but remained forthright and honest about it. As inspirational as his music has been, a whole new level of respect and example here.
Setting aside the issue of drugs,what was truly magical about those times was being able to turn on the radio and hear a brand new Beatles song every couple of weeks which was usually sharing a place up at the top of the charts with a brand new Motown song!Heaven.
Sounds like a very different time. That being said I do think little kids admire the bettles these days because they use them as a way to say why drugs are harmless and or even can be good for you as they did drugs and are super mega successful. I could be wrong and this is why I think little kids today admire them.
@@thewewguy8t88 I'm a young fella who digs the Beatles and, above all, it's because they put out really cool and unique music. The use of LSD, I must admit, is an appeal I have for them too.
Ringo in his interview: "We never really over did our intake of LSD" Ringo approximately 50 years ago in a recording booth: "I'd like to be under the sea in an Octopus' Garden in the shade!"
The song was inspired by Ringo taking a trip to Sardinia and getting explained on a boat how Octopuses actually do have little '''houses'' and ''gardens''' which they make from shells, coral, etc. It has nothing to do with drugs.
It was a literal description of being in a biatcwith a glass bottom for viewing the sea bed. A common experience for people on holiday at seaside. This is a weird thread where people who haven't had children or gone on family holidays disbelieve people who admitted drugs on somethings and albums when they said other songs did not involve drugs. You must have extremely dull lives if you think you need drugs for all surreal observations and experiences
@@cuebj I know they sing about normal stuff, Ringo especially. I was just saying it regarding all the times they said they never did too much of it, and then proceeded to write songs with many nonsensical lyrics like Tomorrow Never Knows, which was based mostly on psychedelics. I know people can still experience cool stuff without drugs. And I didn't exactly know what the song was based off of, so thank you for correcting me! P.S I am aware I am a major dumbass
I now look at The Beatles as the first drug I ever took. I received the Magical Mystery Tour album on cd as a lad...in third grade, and it impacted me in a way that no music had at that point. "Why," I asked various grownups, "is it so weird?" And they would simply say that (The Beatles) were on drugs. This came around the time kids are starting to be warned about drugs. Through scare tactics and misinformation. If drugs are as poisonous as we were led to believe, how could they inspire such wonderful music? It would be many years before I would have any firsthand experience with drugs, but if you consider anything that changes the way you see the world, and the way you see yourself in relation to it to be a drug, then my first dose was this music that I love so very much.
@@newagain9964 Well, I could ask you to do the same. If reference them several times. But, as a kid asking about why the music was so different, "drugs" was the only answer I was given. There were no specifics. Later on I would learn that they (the Beatles) were on a number of different drugs at any given time. Speed in the early days, then grass and hash, followed by LSD, and later heroin (for John.)
I never cared what they did. My buddy and I waited for every new Beatle song to come out and we'd buy it on 45, run home and practice till we knew it. I still play those songs 50 years later. Thanks, boys!
kubkins Agreed. I'm annoyed that he's annoyed. Like, who gives a shit? He got cornered with a question. Drop the self-importance and return to the mantra, George!
They were all annoyed by his admission - it's just that in the clips here, it's only George who's said it. I'm going from Beatles biographers: Philip Norman, Kenneth Womack, Robert Rodriguez, they all say that the other Beatles were pissed off with McCartney. Other biographers, Mark Hertsgaard for one, comment that it's this announcement that begins to turn the UK authorities against the Beatles, whereas they'd always enjoyed protection as MBEs. So, once John went public with Yoko, that was the last straw - the infamous Sgt Pilcher's Drug Squad put John and then George in his sights. (In other words, planted dope in their homes and busted them for possession.)
George alluded to it a little, but Paul was the holdout. The other three Beatles had tried a few times to get him to try it before he finally did. George is just pointing out that Paul is then the Beatle who has to speak about LSD use.
kubkins. George always has something negative to say. Huge inferiority complex that he NEVER got over. In most interviews he's always negative. Little bitch.
What George is trying to say is that Paul was always a little "out there" on all occasions,. So imagine you've been quietly taking LSD for years and nothing serious happens, then one day your friend who's just tried it for the first time is on national tv talking all about it as if he was Master LSD Head of the Century. Kind of weird
He didn't say that. He said when they took too much it was crap. Well when you drink too much water it is crap. Try drinking 12 litres of water in ten minutes or breathing in AIR 60 times in one minute. One blast of grass should be enough for any human per day, but the idiots try again and again to "extend the high" and end up falling asleep. Wisdom comes with age.
@@kennethkeen4988 He did say that. He said it was "shit". Try having too much upper in your system and thinking you're playing great and then the next day after you've passed out from having an intense comedown you realize with everyone that what sounded great last night sounds terrible right now and you all are just like "aw fuck we gotta do that again that's terrible". "wisdom comes with age" so I guess your wisdom is "only smoke once a day kids you don't want to pass out like me" Who takes one puff of smoke a day then rides that high the entire day? Only those with no tolerance. If you were smoking weed daily you would realize that about after 3 days of getting blasted off of one hit you need to take another one to chase that last one because it's wearing off due to your body becoming used to the substance. Idk about you but If I were to smoke in the morning when I'm most fresh than I would be high for a solid hour depending on the potency before I get hungry, eat, and then find myself not to be high anymore. Maybe at this point you'll move onto other things but I would smoke again because honestly if you're going to ingest marijuana you are now adding an aspect to your lifestyle. Just like those who build a habit of smoking cigarettes just one cigarette will become not enough in about 5 minutes for those who chainsmoke. Why even chainsmoke? I don't know. Disgusting habit. But as you can see our lungs tend to become tolerant to smoke and once you build up enough resin in those lungs your receptors just won't pick it up as quick due to more receptors being burnt out than there are fresh ones which are just looking for something to bind to them. You breathe in and out probably about 60 or more times in a minute since 1 minute is 60 seconds and each second you are unknowingly thinking of getting your next breath causing us to just breathe like it's no problem due to muscle memory. If you were to take one big inhale of air you're now forcing more air in than your lungs usually do. That's manually inhaling and you will become light headed because you forced more oxygen in than your body usually does on it's own. Manually exhaling will cause you to become breatheless for a few seconds and holding your breathe will cause you to become dizzy. This is common sense. How are you not aware of common sense when making your invalid points trying to disagree with something Ringo straight out confirmed. Get over yourself if you were someone to be spreading wisdom it would be for prepubescent children. You know, so that they know not to puff that devil's lettuce more than once or they'll pass out.
@@phildanus6962 - nice to get such a 'long answer' and not filled with phrases learned from some wank. Sadly with this "YOU TUBE shite site" I had to load this page five times before it would let me comment - despite clicking on the "reply" of the mail they sent me. Is there anything in the world as fucked up as the us of fucking eh? Who cares? So where do we start? Smoking poison (like cigarettes) is as fucked up as any one can be. But smoking grass once a day is only for those with willpower. The earlier in the day the better. You DO harm your body with smoking ANYTHING, so if you take it when you are fresh as you say - you will get the most from it and make least destruction to your cells. So that is next? OK after an hour or three the high begins to wear off - so what? It goes down. And if you can't live with that and need to take more to keep the high then you are a fucked up useless person who is not able to enjoy the high without "needing" to maintain it. Then you are doing it just to be high and not to gain any insights or stirr your creative ability. Sometimes I ramble on, not able to clearly make my point. But what is the point you are trying to say? Ringo said "Whenever we overdid our intake the music we made was shit". That is the point. If you drink too much water you die, if you take too much of anything then it fucks you up - end of story. SO each person has to know how much is 'good' for them. Many over indulge sometimes and that is no big deal when it is just grass we are talking about. When it is alcohol then you get physically sick and can't control yourself any more, your body expels the poison that alcohol is. From the trillions of times people have smoked grass how many known death have been recorded? None. But how many millions of people are dead right now because they took the government sponcered death drug - alcohol? Many, many, millions. So keep real and stop spreading stupid nonsense making the impression that smoking weed is not a good thing. For 99% of the times that weed is smoked a good experience happens. You can't say that for alcohol. But it makes you stupid and pathetic for a few hours and that is in the government's interest to promote - people doing crappy jobs need some sort of 'relief' to run to, to be able to get through their life. And it is taxed. And the long term problems are so slow to be apparent that most people accept it. It is part of the establishment norm. But only in the west. And most Americans don't even know that they are a small minority, believing themselves to be 'the standard'. Alcohol is a disgusting drug, addictive and disabilitating. But there is so much money invested in its use that it is now impossible to make it illegal in the west. It is illegal in places where people have common sense, but that is a fact probably not even KNOWN by the ignorant slobs who sit and watch TV every day of their lives while getting drunk. Just my opinion. Who gives a shit about what I say? I am just saying what I believe. Nothing more. Don't believe a word you read ANYWHERE. Just believe the things that you are yourself ABLE TO PROVE. And the Beatles are good examples of being honest and straight. Paul was believing that smoking grass was in fact a bad thing and wrong and so the knowledge about them taking it should not be passed on to young people. Smoking is not a good thing. But if you can take just one puff and it lifts your spirit and takes you through your day and does not eventually become 20 puffs then tell others and teach them to learn how to strengthen their own will power. Don't go too far. Like don't do ANYTHING to excess. COMMON SENSE.
fucking lightweights....you wont get Hawkwind or Motorhead saying that and loads of other bands Spacemen 3..Velvet Underground..Iggy,... Bowie...."taking drugs ... to make music.. for people on drugs to listen to.... " Acid House...... Acid Rock
I feel like its a massive misconception that people do LSD and make music WHILE high. You have your trip and become a better artist for it AFTERWARDS. Even making music stoned is a challenge never mind high on LSD haha
Ironically, in the 70's ABBA was actually made fun of, because they did not use drugs. And were discribed in the media as too goodie goodie, too clean cut, too sober, not edgy, not cool, too good looking, etc..... I have a ton of respect for ABBA because they put their time and effort into making great music. ABBA let the music speak. Music: Melody Harmony Rhythm Timbre!
Just finished the Anthology again after about 10 years. My takeaway was big on Ringo, his drumming, especially early on in live situations, was godlike. He also comes off as the wisest Beatle.
I read in Geoff Emricks books that when George Martin took john to the roof he came back into the studio and told paul and George Harrison what he did, and they laughed for moment then realised "shit, johns tripping on a roof, alone!" and had to run upstairs to see if he was okay haha
+Calum Welbourn Geoff also says John got very aggressive and paranoid when smoking weed, it was one of John's outburst that lead to Geoff resigning as their sound engineer during The White Album sessions.
jrgboy oh yeah! Man, i can johm imagine being the most nerve racking person to work with the studio. Geoff also mentions that it was long after he had met john, probably after john died that he learned of johns upbringing and why the way john was. Which is kind of sad.
I don't know much about LSD (although I tried it once many years ago & did'nt regret it ) but George Martin's idea that 'some fresh air' would make everything ok is very funny & innocent as he said ! & " I knew 'the boys' smoked a bit of Pot ' is positively quaint haha !
The story of John tripping on roof of the studio ended with Paul agreeing to take him home. Paul says he decided John shouldn't have to trip alone, so he took some that night too. Not sure if it was Paul's first time though.
It was not lol but most likely the second or third time as they were recording “getting better”. His first was without any of the Beatles at a party he attended as that was Shortly before he came up with the idea for the Sgt. Pepper album. Im convinced pauls stimulated imagination in the months after his first trip is what spurred the albums concept.
I'm glad ringo said at the very end they would have to re-record tracks they made on drugs. It makes me feel better about making art knowing I can't be high while creating.
Martin says... “It was a rumor that Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds really stood for LSD which absolutely wasn’t true” then proceeds to tell the story about John and him on the roof at the studio while John was tripping balls and SPECIFICALLY mentioned the stars being magnificent”. He might as well have said “they look like diamonds!”
The drugs no doubt influenced their music, including Lucy and all the songs on Sgt. Peppers, but the real inspiration for that song was of course the drawing Julian did of his little school friend Lucy, and Julian added the "in the sky with diamonds." Well documented, and poor Lucy passed away a few years ago/
@@stimpsonjcat26 grow up guys, the Beatles said those thing to throw the broadcasters off their trail as back in the 60's songs were screened for secretive slang use indicating drugs and they said those things to get their music played. A very good example is their parody songs such as Glass Onion & I am The Walrus were they purpose toy around with people looking for meanings behind their lyrics.
The idea that Paul and John, the two greatest wordsmiths of the 20th century, were unaware that LSD was an anacronym for Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds is a gut breaker. Obviously they saw it immediately and used Julian's drawing as a cover. Don't blame them at all for publically protecting the image of the the Beatles. But paleeeeze . .
+Todd Lavigne They probably needed them, what with touring 9 months of the year, having to write around 32/34 new songs a year and record them, that was part of the reason they stopped touring when they had the trouble in the Philippines cos they were totally exhausted..
+jrgboy They took the uppers back in the hamburg days though, don't know if they took them much while they were actually famous and touring. Also uppers and speed are by no means the same thing.
Generally they are exactly the same thing as Andromeda says....amphetamines, meth-amphetamines. The pharmaceutical stuff (dexedrine, adderal, benzedrine), vary chemically, but essentially they are really good stimulants. Used and developed by the Japanese in WW2...the Germans developed their own version as did the USA. All designed to make soldiers go longer, harder out in the battlefields Hitler was a major junkie, this explains much about his actions.
For anyone still curious, the first time Paul took LDS it was with his friend Tara Browne sometime in 1966. John and George had been pressuring him so much to take it that he just decided to "get it over with" and took it with Tara since he wasn't pressuring Paul about it like John and George had been. What's *really* interesting however is that the *second* time Paul took LSD, it was with John, and it was the night that is mentioned in the video - the night John accidentally took LSD instead of the uppers he thought he was taking. Paul and John went to Paul's house in Cavendish when the session broke up and Paul took the LSD there in order to "keep John company in his misery." (Because John was having kind of a bad trip at that point IIRC).
+06rtm It only takes someone to write more than two lines of succinct English and quote an unknown name or two to just blow off all competition. Don't believe a single word you hear or read when you are not able to verify it yourself. I have never taken drugs but KNOW that without the drugs then the Beatles would never ever have been famous to this day. I know that. But I don't KNOW if David Bowie died yesterday, just because he didn't call this morning.
+06rtm Bowie did take drugs! Everyone takes drugs, just make sure you take the right amount and don't mess with heroin, that is addictive and you end up usually in a mess. Other drugs are also addictive such as nicotin which is added to tobacco so that people cannot stop smoking. NEVER use tobacco with grass, weed, hash or dope as you are then on the way to loosing control of your body.
It does NOT however add ANY additional high. It makes many people vomit, especially if they have taken alcohol beforehand. So for people who take drugs seriously, leave out the tobacco, it is only for kids who have a need to appear grown up. Perfect for young Americans. :-)
Gotta love George for subtly calling Paul out. I think Paul was very crafty to say it in the interview, i.e. I don't think it was as much about the honesty as it was about the PR. Paul knew it would make waves and that in the end, that would benefit the band. Whichever the case, more power to them.
I’d give anything to hear those messed up sessions when the Beatles were high and I love hearing the outtakes from the message to the records themselves.
The one thing you could never take away from them, is for four young guys who achieved a level of fame unheard of before their time, they handled it successfully. None of them were found dead between two groupies with a needle hanging from their arm, arrested for pissing on a statue or a monument, and lastly, consistently put out a quality product for 9 years.
They all came from ordinary backgrounds, but realized that what they had, and were achieving was too valuable, too important to piss it all away by taking heavy drugs. The fact that they were able to put out a quality product consistently should tell you that their drug use was likely fairly limited and sporadic.
John was stuck with a needle in his arm, and he also beat Yoko Ono lol. People are not all good or all bad. John was an asshole, he did make some great tunes tho.
I'm in agreement with Paul. He was asked a question. He answered it honestly and plainly. What the media do with that information and the effect their actions may have on society is on them and them alone, not Paul. All Paul did is answer a question honestly, and in reality nobody can criticise him for that. Can anybody criticise him for his little drug habit? That's another matter and one that'd stir up some debate, but I believe what a person chooses to do in their own time is their business.
It's not what you are on, but why. I had a blast an was a functioning addict for 15 years, but then I crossed the line. Today I have 23 years clean and sober. I have taken about 400 LSD trips from 79 to 93. Reality is the strangest trip that I have ever been on.
400 LSD trips!?!? Whoa bro. are you crazy!! ?? LOL I've done it a couple of times, and the last time was at a Stones concert. Never again. LOL Godspeed!
Certainly his bandmates urged him to try, and probably others, but he never described it as being forced at all. He just decided to do it. He didn't have any more pressure than most any young person does.
No matter what you think of the Beatles, you have to admire their honesty. they were straight up no bullshit. They played the game but if you axed 'em a question, you were delivered an intelligent and honest answer. They weren't just musical geniuses, they were/are extremely intelligent. And on top of that, they had a lot to lose at that point - not like if someone asked Paul that question now when it would have zero impact on his career. The fallout could have had a devastating effect. Respect.
I love how bbc wont play ADITL and LSD for "drug reference" rumors but in 2018 you cant have a hit song if it isnt about drugs, sex, hoes, wanting to die/commit suicide and being rich. smh
Very good comment. And some of the disc jockeys were very heavily into underage and other vulnerable young people and children while professing moral high ground about songs they played
Ringo: After taking drugs in the studio we found our music to be crap when listening to it later. Grateful Dead: After watching this, looking around awkwardly
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Then? Are you sure? That was years ago and how do you know he has stopped taking it once a month to keep up his creative output? That was THEN and Paul perhaps took dozens more acid THAN you. "Than" and "then" are two very difficult words for Americans. The root of all their problems is their inability to pronounce the words, hence they then write down what they hear and it makes no sense at all but they think everyone understands them. That is funny and a great way to spot yanks as they are even worse at expressing themselves than foreigners who are in the process of learning English. Great to have an idiot you can kick and who really deserves the kicking. Is that politically correct enough for your SanFransickos?
@@kennethkeen4988 Jesus, fuck. What's it like to be you? I can't imagine having my head so far up a celebrity's ass I'm willing to argue with someone on the internet about how Paul took more drugs than him. lmfao. Stay classy, you sad fuck.
Ringo was right at the end, when he said that the results were poorly bad, knowing that they had recorded their music on LSD, on the previous night before, which makes a lot of sense to me. In fact, how can you imagine the Beatles recording all their songs and all their albums being stoned most of the time? It even goes for all the other music bands of that same time period, unless you were Jim Morrison perhaps, or even still. The bottom line is that you cannot be coherent enough to create music, while you’re high on an LSD trip. Any artists will tell you that. Thank you for this magnificent presentation. Johnny, Montréal, Canada 🇨🇦
One of the appealing things about the Beatles (and there are many) is their refusal to take themselves too seriously. They were pretty honest about not touring when they felt that they no longer enjoyed it or touring was hurting their music. Same with drugs. I think they tried drugs to get to another level but were ultimately disillusioned. Paul was spot on about the press’ responsibility (and lack of it) .
When Paul is speaking, from 2:33 to 3:06, there's something about his parlance and gesture which sounds and appears more like the character of John to me. Other than the influence of Paul being around him so closely for so long, I'm thinking that the resemblance is also registering from all of the interviews that John had in either defending a concept (e.g.: the misunderstood statement about the Beatles being more popular than Jesus) or proclaiming an opposing belief (interviews throughout the Bed-Ins for Peace events).
Creative people express themselves in different ways. Drugs have always played a role in civilization, but not all creative people do drugs. I remember an artist interview where a painter was asked about about drugs. He responded by saying his high came from the process of making art, not a substance. I do appreciate the Beatles being honest about their life and pointing out media's role in glorifying drugs. The media decides trends, good and bad. It's important to say, creative people can create without drugs. Many do everyday everyday without drugs, just a thought.
This is so great, love your Wolf avatar OP, grateful for you sharing this. If anyone likes this. Seek and watch the entire Beatles Anthology documentary from 1995.
paul actually makes a clever point in his earlier interview about lsd when he says that its up to the journalists to spread the news. i love these guys no matter what. thares nothing wrong to try and experience new thing in life as long as you dont become addicted or they dont affect your life. thats my opinion but as for me i never tried them and i dunnot wanna try them. thats the way i feel for now.
I think what people didn't see is that this is what they were doing in thier spare time from the very start. Even in the earliest of years, they were opening up inhalers and picking the part they like to inhale. It was later on where things started getting harder to control because they formed habits that had to be taken care of. Some of em let certain habits run farther than others. Nevertheless, the moral is to really try and keep your personal and professional life separate unless you're ready to deal with an overbearing amount of issues that naturally come with it. Especially if you're of any amount of fame.
Someone should have taught Paul the words “No comment”. The press are not a court of law. No one owes them “the truth”. Still, I respect Paul for wanting to be straight with people.
i’m not a beatles super fan or anything but i find the beatles content and lore to be amazingly calming no matter the story or what’s going on. mostly ringo i like ringo
I'd actually find it more strange if you told me a band that sung about yellow submarines, creatures in the sky, being walruses, Mr. Kite etc. didn't take drugs.
As would I
That's called Imagination.
@@fernandoaldekoa2436 more like intoxication.
@@GuitarHeroPhenomSux Your comments show that you have very little imagination.
U really don't need drugs to create stuff like that, it's called hard work and talent...
I think Paul was right to be honest about it
it changed the world that he did
Don't be American, be honest.
Yeah. Real class act.Then countless numbers of youth stated to take it. Countless cases of death by drug overdose for almost fifty years. The war on drugs was lost a long time ago, partly because of these bastards.
Julie Witt You're moronic. The war on drugs is and was always going to be a failure regardless if a Beatle said he tried lsd. People always have and always will self medicate. By the way how do you feel about tobacco and alcohol?
Honesty is the best policy and good for the soul x
1:57 - 3:06
Paul actually does have a very strong point about the media in that, when celebrities are asked certain questions and they are honest, they are often blamed for their answers and the way they are interpreted. Yet it's the media that chooses to disclose the information to the public. If they are so worried about the problems certain things said would cause, why publish it?
great point Sebastian..
MEN Kae Why, thank you.
+Sandra Valdes Sebby 😂
+Izumi Hanjinozuka $
Isn't that called censoring? Just saying.
Paul answers questions in a studio
*George Martin* answers questions in studio
*George Harrison* answers questions in studio
*ringo* answers questions in a luxurious villa atop a hill overlooking paradise
God I love ringo
he's the starr
Paul is/was the work horse. THAT is why I love him. Always in the studio.
Too bad he was a cheater though.
N.A. Conen he cheated??
Carys Downing - He cheated on his British fiancé - I forget her name. Probably cheated on other gfs too.
He’s names Starr for a reason also love your profile picture
god i wanna hear those tapes they made when they were "too high" or whatever
yeah, me too :)
+Curran F Yes, I love those!
They can be heard. It was a commercial decision not to use them, they are actually dull and boring. You WILL be disappointed, I had the same expectations but was disappointed.
kenneth keen where can I find them?
"What's the new mary jane" must have been recorded when they were drugged up, try that.
LSD stands for..... 'Lennon's Special Diet'
Awesome!
"Lennon's Sad Departure"
Yeah, spray ISIS with Leary's Simple Device -
25.....
Learn Spanish Dictionary.
'Lennon's Sexual Penis'
Ringo nailed it.He`s right, it`s o.k to take a little something while your rocking out .But if you are in the studio on bought and paid for studio time it`s simply unprofessional to get sand-stoned on anything.
Ringo's generally right, about most things.
On
*while YOU'RE rocking out
@@Lanko94 lol I thought the same haha.
Because of their fame, stature they were under the microscope. Jazz musicians smoked grass during intermission- it wasn't an issue.
"We've been trying to get him to take it for 18 months." LOL.
Steven Solo that must of been frustrating for over a year
Lol
Hahaha
@@lucymccartney7724 Lucy....is that you, Lucy? Hey Girl... you loss your diamonds
Yes it's me.Have been trying to find them ever since
What Ringo says toward the end is absolutely true. All four have stated the same. The general public tends to think that The Beatles were high as Mr. Kite while recording. The fact is, the official tracks were performed with nothing stronger than English Tea in their system. They DID have sessions while stoned. None of those tracks were any good, but it DID inspire them with ideas for future (sober) recording sessions.
I also like what George had to say: "It was funny, because we had tried to get him to try it for 18 months." So Paul was the last to try it, but the first to get chewed a new arse for simply being honest with the press. -----> No good deed goes unpunished.
Yeah exactly. The drugs they took did not enhance their performance while on them, but they enhanced and opened up their creative process throughout their career.
People confuse enhanced their creative process with drugs, when it simply called maturing. As they matured as musicians they expanded creatively. Drug use diminished an already brilliant mind. Yes. It's true drugs can be a catalyst for creation, but most of the time not for anything lasting
Well, John actually did use drugs in the studio.
He did on a few occasions, but those sessions never produced any official recordings. His most famous situation took place during Pepper. He "accidentally" dropped acid and he couldn't even perform.
***** He was actively using heroin in 1969 as well. He even had to pause an interview because he got sick from it.
That moment when Paul tells the interviewer that he's actually the one spreading the information about drug use. How can you not dig this man
Paul was silly. By this point Paul should have know the nature of the press. People from the press would sell their mothers for some cash. Paul talked high and mighty and the rest of the three got into trouble and were busted.
@@user-jz6pq4zx3e Paul didn't talk high and mighty at all. He talked honestly, and answered honestly to the question that THEY asked him.
I love how John was the only one to really stick up for Paul
i love John and Paul
Check George's comments on Dick Cavett show. He supported Paul.
@@user-jz6pq4zx3e I'm not sure which interview it was in, but I know he also said it was a bit strange that Paul was the one who resisted taking LCD for so long and suddenly after taking it he was on TV talking about it
@@gregorywoollcombe-gosson5650 With all the shit storm that happened the previous year with John's "Bigger than Jesus" comment one would expect Beatles to have better judgement when talking to Press.
Paul being sanctimonious is quite silly knowing all to well that Press wanted to get them.
One of the greatest band that ever lived with or without drugs.
Agreed!
Without acid, they wouldn't of been anywhere near as experimental.
@@primalhealth5157 I don't think that's necessarily true, although acid played a part, mostly with Lennon and Harrison, a lot went into their growth in experimental music, such as their experiences with fame, them stopping touring which allowed them to focus more time on the recorded product (which led them to make music without them having to perform it live), and just the fact that they're all musical geniuses who naturally wanted to expand their style.
@@primalhealth5157 All creative people would produce better product if they were locked in a maximum security prison with no distractions.
greenscarab2 not one of the best but the best band of all time no one will came close to beatles
Paul is so candid, honest, and articulate. Cute, too.
Sometimes, he comes across as just a tad, too 'cute'. Imho.
bro you sound gay. Not that there's anything wrong with that. Pls enjoy your gayness.
no homo?
left-handedness.. ssst ;) but that's the secret.
O yeah and before I forgot.. drugs.. You got to take those.
Name me one left-handed musician on drugs that isn't a legendary genius.
Paul, Jimi, David etc etc.
“Y’know”
To be fair, the press probably targeted Paul because he was Mr Nice Guy, the diplomat of the group, and they thought, we'll put this joker on the spot, whereas the other three would've told them all words to the effect of "It's none of your business" and "get off my property".
So a band in the sixties did some drugs woo hoo...jeeze so what
as time goes on, more people die from an OD
@Rodzilla yeah I second this, look into what happened to Syd Barrett
Because it was a different world in the 60s. Pot was catagorized as a narcotic and most people had never been exposed to it if they had even heard about it at all. You could do some serious prison time for very small amounts of just possession of pot.
you are the "edgy guy" who thinks the beatles are overrated right??
Drugs are bad mmmk
Ringo speaks the truth. The odd misconception is, drugs are taken to find creativity but stifle the output. Best to take drugs to enjoy the moment and then write about your experiences.
No bands are great because of drugs, but despite of taking them.
This is so true
Exile On Main Street is a drug album and one of the best pieces of recorded rock music period. It’s always rated in the top 3 of all time
Imagine taking LSD with Paul McCartney. Just imagine. A once in a lifetime experience
Imagine all the people🎵🎶...you know that you can't say the word "Imagine" on a video about the Beatles without getting the song lyrics
Nah Paul was a square compared to the other three.
Need to take lsd to imagine taking lsd with paul mccartney
@@ussexeter4601 Paul was the most talented by far, but I understand that people without musical knowledge think otherwise.
Malz Cuatro Where did I say he wasn’t talented? I just stated when it came to hard partying he was not as into experimenting as the other three. Oh and I’m a gigging professional bass player/guitar player for over 30 years, so your assumptions on my musical knowledge is also wrong.😎
"the music would be absolute shit" lolololol i love ringo
Loved that part lol
Average Guy I read this comment exactly when Ringo said that!😂
Dante N. The part in the vid where Ringo says that was playing right when i read your comment at the same time in perfect syncrony. I think im having a flashback.
Wow, god bless Paul's honesty (@ 2:40) He nailed it, he knew exactly what was going on, but remained forthright and honest about it. As inspirational as his music has been, a whole new level of respect and example here.
Setting aside the issue of drugs,what was truly magical about those times was being able to turn on the radio and hear a brand new Beatles song every couple of weeks which was usually sharing a place up at the top of the charts with a brand new Motown song!Heaven.
Peppered with releases by the Stones. Truly magical times.
Sounds like a very different time. That being said I do think little kids admire the bettles these days because they use them as a way to say why drugs are harmless and or even can be good for you as they did drugs and are super mega successful. I could be wrong and this is why I think little kids today admire them.
I don't see where drugs were an issue here.
@@thewewguy8t88 I'm a young fella who digs the Beatles and, above all, it's because they put out really cool and unique music. The use of LSD, I must admit, is an appeal I have for them too.
I so respect how genuine the beatles were.
When you listen to the Beatles talk, you’re listening to grownups. There’s a seriousness and maturity that is refreshing.
Good point- they kept their cool, primary perspective. Drug use was secondary..
I just learned this: none of them were even 30 before the band broke up
And the amazing thing is that when they broke up, they were all under thirty years of age.
@@larrymorgan7352 Exactly. Geniuses like them just matured earlier than most. I’m still figuring it all out and I’m well past my prime.
Very true DJ. Well said.
PAUL SAID YA KNOW LIKE 11 TIMES, ya know
No, I don't know. I do know that in the interview at 2:30 he said it 7 times though, ya know? :)
Late 60s both Paul and John say “y’know” every end of sentence. It was “in” at that time.
@@BassicVIC I know 🙂.
Faul
How many times have you said Y'know?
Paul is absolutely right.
Ringo in his interview: "We never really over did our intake of LSD"
Ringo approximately 50 years ago in a recording booth: "I'd like to be under the sea in an Octopus' Garden in the shade!"
The song was inspired by Ringo taking a trip to Sardinia and getting explained on a boat how Octopuses actually do have little '''houses'' and ''gardens''' which they make from shells, coral, etc. It has nothing to do with drugs.
It was a literal description of being in a biatcwith a glass bottom for viewing the sea bed. A common experience for people on holiday at seaside. This is a weird thread where people who haven't had children or gone on family holidays disbelieve people who admitted drugs on somethings and albums when they said other songs did not involve drugs. You must have extremely dull lives if you think you need drugs for all surreal observations and experiences
@@cuebj I know they sing about normal stuff, Ringo especially. I was just saying it regarding all the times they said they never did too much of it, and then proceeded to write songs with many nonsensical lyrics like Tomorrow Never Knows, which was based mostly on psychedelics. I know people can still experience cool stuff without drugs. And I didn't exactly know what the song was based off of, so thank you for correcting me! P.S I am aware I am a major dumbass
Paul has great character. The media is to blame.
I now look at The Beatles as the first drug I ever took.
I received the Magical Mystery Tour album on cd as a lad...in third grade, and it impacted me in a way that no music had at that point.
"Why," I asked various grownups, "is it so weird?"
And they would simply say that (The Beatles) were on drugs.
This came around the time kids are starting to be warned about drugs. Through scare tactics and misinformation.
If drugs are as poisonous as we were led to believe, how could they inspire such wonderful music?
It would be many years before I would have any firsthand experience with drugs, but if you consider anything that changes the way you see the world, and the way you see yourself in relation to it to be a drug, then my first dose was this music that I love so very much.
👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏
good story , even though i dont take drugs i still respect that you enjoy it
THANK YOU- That period of their creative evolution was so potent it gave me a contact high, jolt, just by revisiting their music.Pure magic...
“Drugs” encompasses a lot things. Like heroin, alcohol, caffeine, Weed, viagra, DMT etc. Gotta be specific.
@@newagain9964 Well, I could ask you to do the same. If reference them several times.
But, as a kid asking about why the music was so different, "drugs" was the only answer I was given.
There were no specifics.
Later on I would learn that they (the Beatles) were on a number of different drugs at any given time. Speed in the early days, then grass and hash, followed by LSD, and later heroin (for John.)
I never cared what they did. My buddy and I waited for every new Beatle song to come out and we'd buy it on 45, run home and practice till we knew it. I still play those songs 50 years later. Thanks, boys!
interesting that John is the only other Beatle to stand up for Paul talking about taking LSD. George always seems annoyed by Paul
kubkins Agreed. I'm annoyed that he's annoyed.
Like, who gives a shit?
He got cornered with a question.
Drop the self-importance and return to the mantra, George!
They were all annoyed by his admission - it's just that in the clips here, it's only George who's said it. I'm going from Beatles biographers: Philip Norman, Kenneth Womack, Robert Rodriguez, they all say that the other Beatles were pissed off with McCartney. Other biographers, Mark Hertsgaard for one, comment that it's this announcement that begins to turn the UK authorities against the Beatles, whereas they'd always enjoyed protection as MBEs. So, once John went public with Yoko, that was the last straw - the infamous Sgt Pilcher's Drug Squad put John and then George in his sights. (In other words, planted dope in their homes and busted them for possession.)
George alluded to it a little, but Paul was the holdout. The other three Beatles had tried a few times to get him to try it before he finally did. George is just pointing out that Paul is then the Beatle who has to speak about LSD use.
kubkins. George always has something negative to say. Huge inferiority complex that he NEVER got over. In most interviews he's always negative. Little bitch.
What George is trying to say is that Paul was always a little "out there" on all occasions,. So imagine you've been quietly taking LSD for years and nothing serious happens, then one day your friend who's just tried it for the first time is on national tv talking all about it as if he was Master LSD Head of the Century. Kind of weird
I like Ringo's comment on when they made music mixed with drugs...and the result was S...
He didn't say that. He said when they took too much it was crap. Well when you drink too much water it is crap. Try drinking 12 litres of water in ten minutes or breathing in AIR 60 times in one minute. One blast of grass should be enough for any human per day, but the idiots try again and again to "extend the high" and end up falling asleep. Wisdom comes with age.
@@kennethkeen4988 He did say that. He said it was "shit". Try having too much upper in your system and thinking you're playing great and then the next day after you've passed out from having an intense comedown you realize with everyone that what sounded great last night sounds terrible right now and you all are just like "aw fuck we gotta do that again that's terrible". "wisdom comes with age" so I guess your wisdom is "only smoke once a day kids you don't want to pass out like me" Who takes one puff of smoke a day then rides that high the entire day? Only those with no tolerance. If you were smoking weed daily you would realize that about after 3 days of getting blasted off of one hit you need to take another one to chase that last one because it's wearing off due to your body becoming used to the substance. Idk about you but If I were to smoke in the morning when I'm most fresh than I would be high for a solid hour depending on the potency before I get hungry, eat, and then find myself not to be high anymore. Maybe at this point you'll move onto other things but I would smoke again because honestly if you're going to ingest marijuana you are now adding an aspect to your lifestyle. Just like those who build a habit of smoking cigarettes just one cigarette will become not enough in about 5 minutes for those who chainsmoke. Why even chainsmoke? I don't know. Disgusting habit. But as you can see our lungs tend to become tolerant to smoke and once you build up enough resin in those lungs your receptors just won't pick it up as quick due to more receptors being burnt out than there are fresh ones which are just looking for something to bind to them. You breathe in and out probably about 60 or more times in a minute since 1 minute is 60 seconds and each second you are unknowingly thinking of getting your next breath causing us to just breathe like it's no problem due to muscle memory. If you were to take one big inhale of air you're now forcing more air in than your lungs usually do. That's manually inhaling and you will become light headed because you forced more oxygen in than your body usually does on it's own. Manually exhaling will cause you to become breatheless for a few seconds and holding your breathe will cause you to become dizzy. This is common sense. How are you not aware of common sense when making your invalid points trying to disagree with something Ringo straight out confirmed. Get over yourself if you were someone to be spreading wisdom it would be for prepubescent children. You know, so that they know not to puff that devil's lettuce more than once or they'll pass out.
@@phildanus6962 - nice to get such a 'long answer' and not filled with phrases learned from some wank. Sadly with this "YOU TUBE shite site" I had to load this page five times before it would let me comment - despite clicking on the "reply" of the mail they sent me. Is there anything in the world as fucked up as the us of fucking eh?
Who cares?
So where do we start? Smoking poison (like cigarettes) is as fucked up as any one can be. But smoking grass once a day is only for those with willpower. The earlier in the day the better. You DO harm your body with smoking ANYTHING, so if you take it when you are fresh as you say - you will get the most from it and make least destruction to your cells.
So that is next? OK after an hour or three the high begins to wear off - so what? It goes down. And if you can't live with that and need to take more to keep the high then you are a fucked up useless person who is not able to enjoy the high without "needing" to maintain it. Then you are doing it just to be high and not to gain any insights or stirr your creative ability.
Sometimes I ramble on, not able to clearly make my point. But what is the point you are trying to say? Ringo said "Whenever we overdid our intake the music we made was shit". That is the point. If you drink too much water you die, if you take too much of anything then it fucks you up - end of story. SO each person has to know how much is 'good' for them. Many over indulge sometimes and that is no big deal when it is just grass we are talking about. When it is alcohol then you get physically sick and can't control yourself any more, your body expels the poison that alcohol is.
From the trillions of times people have smoked grass how many known death have been recorded? None. But how many millions of people are dead right now because they took the government sponcered death drug - alcohol? Many, many, millions.
So keep real and stop spreading stupid nonsense making the impression that smoking weed is not a good thing. For 99% of the times that weed is smoked a good experience happens. You can't say that for alcohol. But it makes you stupid and pathetic for a few hours and that is in the government's interest to promote - people doing crappy jobs need some sort of 'relief' to run to, to be able to get through their life. And it is taxed. And the long term problems are so slow to be apparent that most people accept it. It is part of the establishment norm. But only in the west. And most Americans don't even know that they are a small minority, believing themselves to be 'the standard'. Alcohol is a disgusting drug, addictive and disabilitating. But there is so much money invested in its use that it is now impossible to make it illegal in the west. It is illegal in places where people have common sense, but that is a fact probably not even KNOWN by the ignorant slobs who sit and watch TV every day of their lives while getting drunk.
Just my opinion. Who gives a shit about what I say? I am just saying what I believe. Nothing more. Don't believe a word you read ANYWHERE. Just believe the things that you are yourself ABLE TO PROVE. And the Beatles are good examples of being honest and straight. Paul was believing that smoking grass was in fact a bad thing and wrong and so the knowledge about them taking it should not be passed on to young people. Smoking is not a good thing. But if you can take just one puff and it lifts your spirit and takes you through your day and does not eventually become 20 puffs then tell others and teach them to learn how to strengthen their own will power. Don't go too far. Like don't do ANYTHING to excess. COMMON SENSE.
@@kennethkeen4988 So does kindness.
fucking lightweights....you wont get Hawkwind or Motorhead saying that and loads of other bands Spacemen 3..Velvet Underground..Iggy,... Bowie...."taking drugs ... to make music.. for people on drugs to listen to.... " Acid House...... Acid Rock
I feel like its a massive misconception that people do LSD and make music WHILE high. You have your trip and become a better artist for it AFTERWARDS. Even making music stoned is a challenge never mind high on LSD haha
Ironically, in the 70's ABBA was actually made fun of, because they did not use drugs. And were discribed in the media as too goodie goodie, too clean cut, too sober, not edgy, not cool, too good looking, etc.....
I have a ton of respect for ABBA because they put their time and effort into making great music. ABBA let the music speak.
Music: Melody Harmony Rhythm Timbre!
DJ Regnier great comment!!!
ABBA sucks
ABBA is garbage
ABBA is what they play in IKEA, the Beatles changed music forever, ask Björn who he thinks is the greater band.
✌
Just finished the Anthology again after about 10 years. My takeaway was big on Ringo, his drumming, especially early on in live situations, was godlike. He also comes off as the wisest Beatle.
“did the Beatles take drugs?”
have you h e a r d revolution 9?
Blue jay way lol
"...you know."
all of em. even ringo.
its only a little acid guys, no biggie
and pot
And diet pills, more or less pharmaceutical speed! 💊
Lennon at one point was a heroin addict
and can kill us
@@daeizd i don't think acid or pot ever killed anyone...
I read in Geoff Emricks books that when George Martin took john to the roof he came back into the studio and told paul and George Harrison what he did, and they laughed for moment then realised "shit, johns tripping on a roof, alone!" and had to run upstairs to see if he was okay haha
Calum Welbourn beatle banter
+Calum Welbourn Geoff also says John got very aggressive and paranoid when smoking weed, it was one of John's outburst that lead to Geoff resigning as their sound engineer during The White Album sessions.
+Calum Welbourn Best thing iv heard all day hahaha
jrgboy oh yeah! Man, i can johm imagine being the most nerve racking person to work with the studio. Geoff also mentions that it was long after he had met john, probably after john died that he learned of johns upbringing and why the way john was. Which is kind of sad.
Calum Welbourn
George Martin seemed to have a good sense of humor about it.
@Myrt Myrtle what do you meand different generation
Sgt. Pepper ( All time classic Album). Love the Album.
2:29 freaking rocked that question so calmly
Paul mcartneys response was brilliant.. hes right too.
I don't know much about LSD (although I tried it once many years ago & did'nt regret it ) but George Martin's idea that 'some fresh air' would make everything ok is very funny & innocent as he said ! & " I knew 'the boys' smoked a bit of Pot ' is positively quaint haha !
Well fresh air has worked wonders for me during bad trips. Maybe not on a rooftop though.
The story of John tripping on roof of the studio ended with Paul agreeing to take him home. Paul says he decided John shouldn't have to trip alone, so he took some that night too. Not sure if it was Paul's first time though.
It was not lol but most likely the second or third time as they were recording “getting better”. His first was without any of the Beatles at a party he attended as that was Shortly before he came up with the idea for the Sgt. Pepper album. Im convinced pauls stimulated imagination in the months after his first trip is what spurred the albums concept.
@@fredegundestratton4891 I think he did acid before revolver came out which was like a year before Sgt Pepper’s
@@fredegundestratton4891 Paul’s first trip was in December of 1965
He said they looked into each other’s eyes and dissolved into each other. It’s a real thing that happens
Paul is so correct. If the media don't want people bein influenced then don't tell people. The only affect it'll make is a bad one so why do it?
propaganda and views
"the only EFFECT it'll make"
George Harrison said the same thing back in 1970 something on Dick Cavett.
Paul makes a great point about the double standards of bad journalists.
Lol I had the subtitles on and it thinks lucy in the sky with diamonds is "loosing the scarlet almond"
I'm glad ringo said at the very end they would have to re-record tracks they made on drugs. It makes me feel better about making art knowing I can't be high while creating.
Thank you speed for helping this band get to another level.
Pauls voice is amazing...
I love it.... 💜💜💜
Ringo's typical Liverpudlian nonchalance at 4.15 when talking about recording music and taking drugs at the same time is priceless!
Martin says... “It was a rumor that Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds really stood for LSD which absolutely wasn’t true”
then proceeds to tell the story about John and him on the roof at the studio while John was tripping balls and SPECIFICALLY mentioned the stars being magnificent”. He might as well have said “they look like diamonds!”
The drugs no doubt influenced their music, including Lucy and all the songs on Sgt. Peppers, but the real inspiration for that song was of course the drawing Julian did of his little school friend Lucy, and Julian added the "in the sky with diamonds." Well documented, and poor Lucy passed away a few years ago/
@@Spearca He might have been trying to write what was in the mind of a child.
@@stimpsonjcat26 grow up guys, the Beatles said those thing to throw the broadcasters off their trail as back in the 60's songs were screened for secretive slang use indicating drugs and they said those things to get their music played. A very good example is their parody songs such as Glass Onion & I am The Walrus were they purpose toy around with people looking for meanings behind their lyrics.
@@phistoltv5196 your argument has nothing to do with what I said
Yeah I think John was bullshitting
The idea that Paul and John, the two greatest wordsmiths of the 20th century, were unaware that LSD was an anacronym for Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds is a gut breaker. Obviously they saw it immediately and used Julian's drawing as a cover. Don't blame them at all for publically protecting the image of the the Beatles. But paleeeeze . .
The Beatles took lots of speed ( uppers ) they were everywhere in the sixties and not really viewed as hard drugs just uppers.
+Todd Lavigne They probably needed them, what with touring 9 months of the year, having to write around 32/34 new songs a year and record them, that was part of the reason they stopped touring when they had the trouble in the Philippines cos they were totally exhausted..
+jrgboy They took the uppers back in the hamburg days though, don't know if they took them much while they were actually famous and touring. Also uppers and speed are by no means the same thing.
+sportjunky4371 Speed is amphetamine, aka nowadays as Adderal. Uppers and Stimulants are very much close to the same thing.
John Thomas Yea but the stuff they had in the 60's was peanuts compared to the stuff around nowadays.
Generally they are exactly the same thing as Andromeda says....amphetamines, meth-amphetamines.
The pharmaceutical stuff (dexedrine, adderal, benzedrine), vary chemically, but essentially they are
really good stimulants. Used and developed by the Japanese in WW2...the
Germans developed their own version as did the USA. All designed to make soldiers go longer, harder out in the battlefields
Hitler was a major junkie, this explains much about his actions.
Lennons
Sons
Drawing 😏
Hey Jules
For anyone still curious, the first time Paul took LDS it was with his friend Tara Browne sometime in 1966. John and George had been pressuring him so much to take it that he just decided to "get it over with" and took it with Tara since he wasn't pressuring Paul about it like John and George had been.
What's *really* interesting however is that the *second* time Paul took LSD, it was with John, and it was the night that is mentioned in the video - the night John accidentally took LSD instead of the uppers he thought he was taking. Paul and John went to Paul's house in Cavendish when the session broke up and Paul took the LSD there in order to "keep John company in his misery." (Because John was having kind of a bad trip at that point IIRC).
Fascinating
+06rtm It only takes someone to write more than two lines of succinct English and quote an unknown name or two to just blow off all competition. Don't believe a single word you hear or read when you are not able to verify it yourself. I have never taken drugs but KNOW that without the drugs then the Beatles would never ever have been famous to this day. I know that. But I don't KNOW if David Bowie died yesterday, just because he didn't call this morning.
MrKennethkeen Why have you not taken drugs? You should try it sometime. Be safe and comfortable with people you trust and whose company you enjoy.
+06rtm Bowie did take drugs! Everyone takes drugs, just make sure you take the right amount and don't mess with heroin, that is addictive and you end up usually in a mess. Other drugs are also addictive such as nicotin which is added to tobacco so that people cannot stop smoking. NEVER use tobacco with grass, weed, hash or dope as you are then on the way to loosing control of your body.
It does NOT however add ANY additional high. It makes many people vomit, especially if they have taken alcohol beforehand. So for people who take drugs seriously, leave out the tobacco, it is only for kids who have a need to appear grown up. Perfect for young Americans. :-)
I’ve never thought about how crazy it would actually be hear paul McCartney say that in the 60’s
The bigger story would be if a band wasn’t taking drugs in the 60’s
Gotta love George for subtly calling Paul out. I think Paul was very crafty to say it in the interview, i.e. I don't think it was as much about the honesty as it was about the PR. Paul knew it would make waves and that in the end, that would benefit the band.
Whichever the case, more power to them.
I’d give anything to hear those messed up sessions when the Beatles were high and I love hearing the outtakes from the message to the records themselves.
Pauls answer was so briliant. Very clever.
The one thing you could never take away from them, is for four young guys who achieved a level of fame unheard of before their time, they handled it successfully. None of them were found dead between two groupies with a needle hanging from their arm, arrested for pissing on a statue or a monument, and lastly, consistently put out a quality product for 9 years.
They all came from ordinary backgrounds, but realized that what they had, and were achieving was too valuable, too important to piss it all away by taking heavy drugs.
The fact that they were able to put out a quality product consistently should tell you that their drug use was likely fairly limited and sporadic.
John was stuck with a needle in his arm, and he also beat Yoko Ono lol. People are not all good or all bad. John was an asshole, he did make some great tunes tho.
I would be shocked to learn a band or an artist from 50's till mid 90's haven't touched drugs.
Frank Zappa did no drugs, might be the only one.
@@user-fu2mi1nd5l He did but he stopped no?
I'm in agreement with Paul. He was asked a question. He answered it honestly and plainly. What the media do with that information and the effect their actions may have on society is on them and them alone, not Paul. All Paul did is answer a question honestly, and in reality nobody can criticise him for that. Can anybody criticise him for his little drug habit? That's another matter and one that'd stir up some debate, but I believe what a person chooses to do in their own time is their business.
The press are obviously out to scandalise and are a wicked influence on the world!!!
Paul's rebuttal to the question was spot on. Perfect answer putting the spin on the spinners
I agree with you. It was pot on.
"i feel to this day we did take certain substances"
-the great mind of ringo starr
Ringo: “Whenever we did drugs and recorded music, it was shit” 😂
I just came down from my LSD trip that started in 1969... what have I missed?
Not much really man. Might as well start on over :)
Dubstep.
Joey Cap lol 😂 not much apart from some Chinese killer flu ✨✨😳🤧 😳😷😷😷✨✨✨
You must of bumped your head and have been in a coma. You'd be lucky if a trip lasts longer than 8 hours. Sheeeesh!
@@wallywalpamur4960 you hit yours pretty hard kiddo, it's "must HAVE".
It's not what you are on, but why. I had a blast an was a functioning addict for 15 years, but then I crossed the line. Today I have 23 years clean and sober. I have taken about 400 LSD trips from 79 to 93. Reality is the strangest trip that I have ever been on.
400 LSD trips!?!? Whoa bro. are you crazy!! ?? LOL I've done it a couple of times, and the last time was at a Stones concert. Never again. LOL Godspeed!
@@SThiel-Hamster 🤣😎🙃🤯🤔😝🔎😇🔍😝🤔🤯🙃🤣😎
400 trips wtf 😁😁😁
@@provetamin Goal was to live fast and die young. Came close to happening . Now I am paying for it
@@RandyR the same bro.... only done lsd once tho. amphetamines was my adiction but i got my self together. now its only booz and weed 😉👌
Paul and Ringo were the clever ones.
Paul was kind of forced into it.
Certainly his bandmates urged him to try, and probably others, but he never described it as being forced at all. He just decided to do it. He didn't have any more pressure than most any young person does.
No matter what you think of the Beatles, you have to admire their honesty. they were straight up no bullshit. They played the game but if you axed 'em a question, you were delivered an intelligent and honest answer. They weren't just musical geniuses, they were/are extremely intelligent. And on top of that, they had a lot to lose at that point - not like if someone asked Paul that question now when it would have zero impact on his career. The fallout could have had a devastating effect. Respect.
Great summary from Ringo !
damn pauls perception of human interaction is like none other. he sees things so honestly
He was right in saying Lucy in the sky with diamonds wasn’t about LSD. That’s because it’s more consistent with mushroom use.
the beatles were such a genuine band. love them
"And then it dawned on me, I must have taken Acid." lol
Bad idea lol
I’d love to hear those recordings!!
I love how bbc wont play ADITL and LSD for "drug reference" rumors but in 2018 you cant have a hit song if it isnt about drugs, sex, hoes, wanting to die/commit suicide and being rich. smh
fav comment ngl
Very good comment. And some of the disc jockeys were very heavily into underage and other vulnerable young people and children while professing moral high ground about songs they played
Ringo: After taking drugs in the studio we found our music to be crap when listening to it later.
Grateful Dead: After watching this, looking around awkwardly
i love how ringos interview is literally him living in paradise
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Nice pool, Ringo. 3:20.
Money can buy me pool
Hell, I've taken more acid then Paul.
Then? Are you sure? That was years ago and how do you know he has stopped taking it once a month to keep up his creative output?
That was THEN and Paul perhaps took dozens more acid THAN you.
"Than" and "then" are two very difficult words for Americans. The root of all their problems is their inability to pronounce the words, hence they then write down what they hear and it makes no sense at all but they think everyone understands them.
That is funny and a great way to spot yanks as they are even worse at expressing themselves than foreigners who are in the process of learning English. Great to have an idiot you can kick and who really deserves the kicking. Is that politically correct enough for your SanFransickos?
Antonio Figueroa what’s this dudes problem? What the hell? Haha
@@kennethkeen4988 Jesus, fuck. What's it like to be you? I can't imagine having my head so far up a celebrity's ass I'm willing to argue with someone on the internet about how Paul took more drugs than him. lmfao. Stay classy, you sad fuck.
LSD was not blotter back then.. Huge difference. Besides the point, that was the sixties.
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Smoke and relax, like the Beatles did.
Ringo was right at the end, when he said that the results were poorly bad, knowing that they had recorded their music on LSD, on the previous night before, which makes a lot of sense to me. In fact, how can you imagine the Beatles recording all their songs and all their albums being stoned most of the time? It even goes for all the other music bands of that same time period, unless you were Jim Morrison perhaps, or even still. The bottom line is that you cannot be coherent enough to create music, while you’re high on an LSD trip. Any artists will tell you that. Thank you for this magnificent presentation. Johnny, Montréal, Canada 🇨🇦
One of the appealing things about the Beatles (and there are many) is their refusal to take themselves too seriously. They were pretty honest about not touring when they felt that they no longer enjoyed it or touring was hurting their music. Same with drugs. I think they tried drugs to get to another level but were ultimately disillusioned. Paul was spot on about the press’ responsibility (and lack of it) .
When Paul is speaking, from 2:33 to 3:06, there's something about his parlance and gesture which sounds and appears more like the character of John to me. Other than the influence of Paul being around him so closely for so long, I'm thinking that the resemblance is also registering from all of the interviews that John had in either defending a concept (e.g.: the misunderstood statement about the Beatles being more popular than Jesus) or proclaiming an opposing belief (interviews throughout the Bed-Ins for Peace events).
I love how John sticks up for Paul big time
The best answer ever by Paul.
Creative people express themselves in different ways. Drugs have always played a role in civilization, but not all creative people do drugs. I remember an artist interview where a painter was asked about about drugs. He responded by saying his high came from the process of making art, not a substance. I do appreciate the Beatles being honest about their life and pointing out media's role in glorifying drugs. The media decides trends, good and bad. It's important to say, creative people can create without drugs. Many do everyday everyday without drugs, just a thought.
I’ve always loved the Sgt Pepper era of the Beatles. They just looked like they were having the best time and the music was so un serious and fun.
I can't say it enough... I LOVE THE BEATLES!!!
This is so great, love your Wolf avatar OP, grateful for you sharing this.
If anyone likes this. Seek and watch the entire Beatles Anthology documentary from 1995.
Let's remember that Ringo would like to be under the sea in an octopuses garden in the shade.
same as fuck
paul actually makes a clever point in his earlier interview about lsd when he says that its up to the journalists to spread the news. i love these guys no matter what. thares nothing wrong to try and experience new thing in life as long as you dont become addicted or they dont affect your life. thats my opinion but as for me i never tried them and i dunnot wanna try them. thats the way i feel for now.
I think what people didn't see is that this is what they were doing in thier spare time from the very start. Even in the earliest of years, they were opening up inhalers and picking the part they like to inhale. It was later on where things started getting harder to control because they formed habits that had to be taken care of. Some of em let certain habits run farther than others. Nevertheless, the moral is to really try and keep your personal and professional life separate unless you're ready to deal with an overbearing amount of issues that naturally come with it. Especially if you're of any amount of fame.
Love it!! Piece of history!!
Paul made it clear "you asked me if I do drugs, ill be honest, but if you care about the audience then don't show it"
I never understood algebra and than I took L.S.D and it all became so clear.
who gives a fuck what drugs they took!!! they made great music,,
Your right, drugs doesn't matter it's how they experimented in music and changed music. greatest band of all time!!!
John Kelly ikr lmao
John Kelly My point exactly!
Absolutely. I believe that they always had that creativity they didn't need to take drugs.
the drugs make it better
Someone should have taught Paul the words “No comment”. The press are not a court of law. No one owes them “the truth”. Still, I respect Paul for wanting to be straight with people.
i’m not a beatles super fan or anything but i find the beatles content and lore to be amazingly calming no matter the story or what’s going on. mostly ringo i like ringo