THE BEATLES: How LSD Changed them Forever – Top Five Acid Songs

Music created on drugs doesn't count for me. People say Hendrix was a genius. I say he was just a guy who was high on drugs and just f*cked around with a guitar connected to a sustaine pedal, while he was under the influence of drugs and alcohol. I also say that Prince, who as a Jehovah's Witness, never drank or took drugs for mood-altering effect, could have played circles around Jimi Hendrix, both as a musician, as well as a composer, arrainger and producer but go ahead and enjoy musical drunk driving, if that's all it takes to amuse you.

I can offer a couple more – It's All Too Much and I Want to Tell You

Um, Revolution 9 … if not that entire album side. Maybe should have been a top 10.

End of I Am The Walrus chant :
Smoke pot ( marijuana)smoke pot everybody smoke pot

No one should "give" LSD to anyone not prepared for it. Acid unmoors one from landfall, deposits one in a raging sea moving in all directions at once, disrupting everything one takes for granted, and shattering preconceptions, beliefs, and mores, as the synapses are flooded open, until the drug wears off. The Beatles started playing with acid's fire before they were "doped by the dentist". I don't really consider anything on Sgt Pepper's to be "psychedelic", with the possible exception of Good Morning, Good Morning, the last note of which kicks off the reprise of Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, before leading into the closing crescendo of A Day in the Life.

John took acid every day for more than a year, according to reports, although I can say, from experience, it doesn't do much good to do it. The body doesn't respond the same, the next day, and less, a third day. Maybe he was getting "the good stuff", but I had clinical, and Owsley, in 1968 and '69, Window Pane, in 1975, and blotter in between. Those were the days, my friend, we thought they'd never end. In many ways, it was a miracle we survived them.

Best of Beatles Psychedelia

01 A H A R D D A Y 'S N I G H T

We have ignition

02 I F E E L F I N E

Lift-off

03 T I C K E T T O R I D E

Engine burnout

03 N O W H E R E M A N

Cruising altitude

04 Y E L L O W S U B M A R I N E

I can't find my ukulele

05 S H E S A I D , S H E S A I D

I know what it means to be dead

06 T O M O R R O W N E V E R K N O W S

How did we get here?

07 M A G I C A L M Y S T E R Y T O U R

Which way is the exit?

08 S T R A W B E R R Y F I E L D S F O R E V E R

Here we go round and round

09 H E L L O , G O O D B Y E

My hair is still curly, my eyes are still blue

10 I A M T H E W A L R U S

Have we met before?

11 R E V O L U T I O N

The way you do the things you do

12 G L A S S O N I O N

Yes, we have no bananas

13 W H Y D O N ' T W E D O I T I N T H E R O A D ?

This is the way we do it

14 B I R T H D A Y

Celebration of the spirit

15 E V E R Y B O D Y H A S S O M E T H I N G H I D E

E X C E P T F O R M E A N D M Y M O N K E Y

Nobody knows the trouble I've seen

16 H E L T E R S K E L T E R

It's all too much for me to cope with

17 I T ' S A L L T O O M U C H

Is this the end of the beginning?

18 C O M E T O G E T H E R

Long gone lonesome blues, Part VI

19 P O L Y T H E N E P A M

Rama-lama-ding-dong

20 I ' V E G O T A F E E L I N G

What a long strange trip it's been

Even as a kid growing up in the 60s we knew Lucy in the Sky was about LSD. I never believed Lennons explanation that the title came from his sons naming of a painting he had drawn. It was clear to me that the Beatles were advised not to associate that song with drugs as it may hurt their business and reputation.

The great thing about all of this material is how I was able to enjoy it at a tender single digit age for what it is and not knowing or caring that the Beatles had ingested LSD while writing and recording so much of it. Down the pike, one former friend of mine who generously invited me overseas to visit him in England two different times confided to me how he didn't like what the group did after 1965 because of the influence of the drugs I can understand that, but it's easier for me to fall back on my own personal enjoyment of the music itself. However, that could be that I am somewhat eccentric by Nature myself and don't need drugs to get high.

The walls are melting and I love you all !

Psychedelics are just an exceptional mental health breakthrough. It's quite fascinating how effective they are against depression and anxiety. Saved my life.

Thank you LSD 🙃

Not only the Beatles! From 1965 onwards many bands went on various err trips!

Sigh. May God continue to bless the late Cynthia and her baby boy Julian. I was no more than 9 or 10 years old when Revolver was released, and even I was aware that "something" was going on with them/their music. Then Pepper/Magical Mystery Tour it got really weird to me. Then the White Album, which, to me, is still mostly dark and angry.
Abbey Road ultimately saved the day for me as a fan.

Who do you think was a better song writer? Lennon or McCartney?

Another great video! Thank You! It's hard to imagine and explain the pressure that was on The Beatles from the record company to the press & public.

the cynthia lennon autobiography sound so GOOOD, & i fell in love w/her paintings and drawings YEARS ago!! :). . .