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

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...

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.

great point Sebastian..

MEN Kae Why, thank you.

+Sandra Valdes Sebby 😂

+Izumi Hanjinozuka $

Isn't that called censoring? Just saying.

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

Awesome!

"Lennon's Sad Departure"

Yeah, spray ISIS with Leary's Simple Device - 25.....

Learn Spanish Dictionary.

'Lennon's Sexual Penis'

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

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.

Ringo's generally right, about most things.

On

*while YOU'RE rocking out

@@EggHead94 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.

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 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.

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.

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”

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.

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.😎

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.

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

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.

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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.)

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?

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

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

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

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

all of em. even ringo.

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. ✌

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

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...

Well fresh air has worked wonders for me during bad trips. Maybe not on a rooftop 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

@Myrt Myrtle what do you meand different generation

I agree with you. It was pot on.

Blue jay way lol

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. :-)

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.

Frank Zappa did no drugs, might be the only one.

@@user-fu2mi1nd5l He did but he stopped no?

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

+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.

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".

The press are obviously out to scandalise and are a wicked influence on the world!!!

Hey Jules

propaganda and views

"the only EFFECT it'll make"

George Harrison said the same thing back in 1970 something on Dick Cavett.

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 😉👌

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.

Bad idea lol

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