How much LSD did The Beatles do in the 1960s?

The next day, George and John. Woke up with mustaches in their Pepper outfits.

I had that same experience that George was describing about having that perfect feeling, but at the time I was on a London tube train with two of my friends and I started dancing up and down the tube train and stupidly I had fun keeping the train doors open. Which attracted a policeman at the next station and we were all arrested and I ended up in a prison cell to be collected by my mother, I was only 16 and will never forget that day. I’am 70 years old now 🎉

It's true, you can hear it in the music and they even hid hints in their titles: L - Shine on S - You Crazy D - Diamond

I was a teen in the 60's and a huge Beatles fan. I heard they were doing LSD, that was the rage at the time. Their music certainly changed, which was shocking for someone who saw them on Ed Sullivan. They were Rock N Rollers. I thought Revolver was pretty strange. Nevertheless, I liked their psychedelic songs, they were great at that too. But they weren't the clean-cut guys I thought earlier, I thought the crazy stuff belonged to the Rolling Stones, LOL. The psychedelic time was good, many great songs from many groups. I love the Eastern influence, truly beautiful music.

George was always my favorite, to see him talking so much is really wonderful he usually seemed so shy.

My dad was Ringo's official chauffeur for the last couple of years before they split, '69/'70. During that time he drove all them at some point & he had plenty of stories to tell. The one thing he really didn't like doing was being sent off to a door somewhere in Petticoat Lane where he would be given a sealed brown envelope to take back for them. Obviously he knew what was inside although what type of drugs were inside he never knew or asked. It was his job, but those runs played heavily on his mind quite a lot at the time. I was only 9/10 at the time so it wasn't until I was much older that he shared some of his experiences with me.

Wow....this was excellent information. Of course, everyone's heard that the Beatles all took LSD, but very little information came out about it. This was, by far, the most detailed information I've ever seen. Very interesting! Thanks for posting!

For those that have never experienced what LSD did. It simply relegates everything to equal importance. Our brain processes priorities. The angles of a city view are never considered important but on LSD it means as much as anything in the world. That is why its mind blowing. You see the world naked. Im glad i did this when i was 18 and also glad that i stopped after a couple of trips.

Spectacular. My dad told me about this story when he used to get rolling stone magazine and read about it back in the day. Sooo grateful someone uploaded this.

tara browne, paul's close friend, was the heir to the guinness company and passed away at the end of '66 in a car accident. the line from a day in the life "he blew his mind out in a car" references this event which john read about in a newspaper and immortalized it.

I love the nuance in their experiences and opinions. The quote about hippies and being "hip" is brilliant. That dichotomy is still going on today.

Thank you so much to all responsible for putting this together and presenting it here. To those of us who were there and are still here, this is pure gold.

Good job of putting this together , it kept my interest thanks for posting it.

Thank you for making this. It totally fills in a big blank of their history for me. Having lived through their reign from beginning until the end.

Fantastically edited documentary. Thank you!

Really priceless historical eclectic compiliation. Well done, many thanks. Brilliant.

Picture yourself in a boat on a river With tangerine trees and marmalade skies Somebody calls you, you answer quite slowly A girl with kaleidoscope eyes Cellophane flowers of yellow and green Towering over your head Look for the girl with the sun in her eyes And she's gone Lucy in the sky with diamonds Lucy in the sky with diamonds Lucy in the sky with diamonds As much as John may deny it, it sounds exactly like an LSD trip.

Hearing George describe his trip brings back so many memories of my first trip.

Very well done and a great selection of different moments of the Beatles, in the days of psychedelia! Peace

In our health education classes in junior high, we were subjected to watching regular in-school educational movies, about the dangers of taking LSD & smoking pot,....this was in 1968 & 1969. The movies were so bad, that they had the opposite effect on me. Imagine how bad they were when they tried to describe a "trip" in film. This wasn't a Hollywood production,....so the images showed blurry visions, undulating smoke, rooms spinning, people wearing weird monster costumes, which they implied was what someone would experience during a hallucination. We used to laugh at those terrible "scare tactic" movies. I couldn't wait for the days, when I would try LSD and smoke pot. The whole Summer of 1969, my friends and I were able to get/buy "weed" from their older siblings,...and by luck, hashish was more available than weed at the time. Every weekend, we'd experiment by smoking hashish. In the beginning I thought there was something wrong with me, since I felt nothing, after smoking way more than would have been necessary. Then about 3 weeks in,....BLAM, it hit me. I got really super stoned on the hash, and I loved every minute of my high. We made it our "every weekend" fun time. The hash was strong and my highs lasted 4 to 6 hours. We mostly giggled, and enjoyed describing our weird visions and thoughts. The hard part was sobering up enough, to not trigger our parents suspicions,....who recognized that our non-stop laughing, seemed peculiar.