The biography to read will be the one Jane Asher publishes when Paul McCartney kicks the bucket (and if that's what it takes to stop him singing bring it on). Jane was Paul's girlfriend from 1963-68 which would include the Beatles' early drug "experimentation" and the trip to India to sit at the feet of Maharishi. Should be quite a colourful tale. I'm assuming she hasn't penned it yet out of respect to Paul's privacy.
---In fairfieldlife@yahoogroups.com, <noozguru@...> wrote: With regard to the Beatles, local KGO radio host Pat Thurston interviewed Larry Kane, a young news reporter at the time of the Beatles who hung out with them on their US tour and has recently written a book about it called "When They Were Boys." He talks about how many of their songs were actually written a couple years before they were "discovered." http://www.kgoradio.com/common/page.php?pt=Pat+Thurston+Podcast&id=4372&is_corp=0 http://www.kgoradio.com/common/page.php?pt=Pat+Thurston+Podcast&id=4372&is_corp=0 It's the Sunday 5PM podcast. On 10/31/2013 11:02 AM, s3raphita@... mailto:s3raphita@... wrote: Re "As for "increased" creativity, however, most serious rock critics consider their two previous albums ("Rubber Soul" and "Revolver") to be better than "Sgt. Pepper.": ---In fairfieldlife@yahoogroups.com mailto:fairfieldlife@yahoogroups.com, <turquoiseb@...> mailto:turquoiseb@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitu wrote: > > Uh, how about they were just creative people to begin with? Many > artists and musicians are such. It's called "talent." > > On 10/31/2013 09:20 AM, cardemaister@... wrote: > > > > So, it seems like LSD might have been the main culprit for their > > increased creativity?? I'm gonna go with Bhairitu's answer above; they were just creative to start with. As for "increased" creativity, however, most serious rock critics consider their two previous albums ("Rubber Soul" and "Revolver") to be better than "Sgt. Pepper." I know I certainly do. Revolver was also heavily indebted to the Fab Four's LSD initiation. "Tomorrow Never Knows" was a full-on attempt to recreate the immersive experience of LSD with lyrics borrowed from Timothy Leary's Tibetan Book of the Dead-inspired writings. "'Got to Get You into My Life' was about pot, claims McCartney. I (as did John Lennon) consider it more likely to be about Paul's first acid trip. Consider the lyric: "I took a ride, I didn't know what I would find there / Another road where maybe I could see some other kind of mind there." "She Said She Said" is a song written by John Lennon who described it as "an 'acidy' song" with lyrics inspired by actor Peter Fonda's comments during an LSD trip in 1965 with members of the Beatles and the Byrds.
