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The Beatles

<p>In fact, Lennon was murdered shortly after he gave an interview to Playboy magazine in which he blew the lid off the fact that the Beatles were part of massive experimentation in social control/engineering unleashed by Tavistock and intelligence agencies, as was the deliberate introduction of drugs like LSD into the burgeoning "counterculture" scene during the 1960s and 1970s. The Playboy interview was published not long after Lennon's death.</p>

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This is from the 1980 interview w/ John Lennon - shortly before he was assassinated.</p>

<p>&nbsp;&nbsp; PLAYBOY: "Acid?"</p>

<p>&nbsp;&nbsp; LENNON: "Not in years. A little mushroom or peyote is not beyond my scope, you know, maybe twice a year or something. You don't hear about it anymore, but people are still visiting the cosmos. We must always remember to thank the CIA and the Army for LSD. That's what people forget. Everything is the opposite of what it is, isn't it, Harry? So get out the bottle, boy... and relax. They invented LSD to control people and what they did was give us freedom. Sometimes it works in mysterious ways its wonders to perform. If you look in the Government reports on acid, the ones who jumped out the window or killed themselves because of it, I think even with Art Linkletter's daughter, it happened to her years later. So, let's face it, she wasn't really on acid when she jumped out the window. And I've never met anybody who's had a flashback on acid. I've never had a flashback in my life and I took millions of trips in the Sixties."
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href="http://www.whale.to/b/lennon1.html">http://www.whale.to/b/lennon1.html</a></p>

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[That writer did] not agree with his assessment about the Beatles' talent, but according to Lyndon H. LaRouche:</p>

<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;"The Beatles had no genuine musical talent, but were a product shaped according to British Psychological Warfare Division (Tavistock) specifications, and promoted in Britain by agencies which are controlled by British intelligence."</p>

<p>"Why Your Child Became A Drug Addict" Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr., Campaigner Special Report, Copyright 1978</p>

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"Following the Beatles, who incidentally were put together by the Tavistock Institute, came other "Made in England" rock groups, who, like the Beatles, had Theo Adorno write their cult lyrics and compose all the "music." I hate to use these beautiful words in the context of "Beatlemania"; it reminds me of how wrongly the word "lover" is used when referring to the filthy interaction between two homosexuals writhing in pigswill. To call "rock" music, is an insult, likewise the language used in "rock lyrics."
http://www.englishforum.ch/general-off-topic/133788-beatles-contrived-tavistock-institute.html</p>

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<p>Vito was in his fifties, but he had four-way sex with goddesses &hellip; He held these clay-sculpting classes on Laurel Avenue, teaching rich Beverly Hills dowagers how to sculpt. And that was the Byrds&rsquo; rehearsal room. Then Jim Dickson had the idea to put them on at Ciro&rsquo;s, on the basis that all the freaks would show up and the Byrds would be their Beatles.&rdquo; &mdash;Kim FowleyRecruits for Vito and Carl&rsquo;s dance troupe weren&rsquo;t likely hard to come by, given that, according to Miles, Vito operated &ldquo;the first crash pad in LA, an open house to countless runaways where everyone was welcome for a night, particularly young women.&rdquo; By the mid 1960s, the group had expanded into a second communal location in addition to the basement studio at 303 Laurel Avenue: the ubiquitous Log Cabin. According to Jack Boulware, writing in Mojo magazine, architect Robert Byrd and his son built a new guesthouse (aka &lsquo;the treehouse&rsquo;) on the property in the early 1960s, and &ldquo;The following year, a communal family of weirdos moved into the cabin and treehouse, centered around two underground hipsters named Vito Paulekas and Carl Franzoni, organizers of freeform dance troupes at clubs along the Sunset Strip.&rdquo; By 1967, the dancers were splitting &ldquo;their rent with staff from the hippie publication The Oracle. Retired journalist John Bilby recalls at least 36 people living and partying at the Log Cabin and treehouse, including the band Fraternity of Man. &lsquo;Tim Leary was definitely there, George Harrison and Ravi Shankar were there,&rsquo; Bilby says.&rdquo;
<a href="http://abundanthope.net/pages/True_US_History_108/Inside-The-LC-The-Strange-but-Mostly-True-Story-of-Laurel-Canyon-and-the-Birth-of-the-Hippie-Generation-Part-1.shtml">http://abundanthope.net/pages/True_US_History_108/Inside-The-LC-The-Strange-but-Mostly-True-Story-of-Laurel-Canyon-and-the-Birth-of-the-Hippie-Generation-Part-1.shtml</a></p>

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<p>Theodor W. Adorno September 11, 1903 &ndash; August 6, 1969)</p>

<p>Oh, I see. Well that explains why The Beatles broke up when they did, because Mr. Adorno died after writing the songs and music for the Abbey Road album. Now, at last, it all makes sense.</p>

<p>So what's next? Now you're probably going to say that the walrus was Paul.
<a href="http://www.iorr.org/talk/read.php?1,1767100,1767100">http://www.iorr.org/talk/read.php?1,1767100,1767100</a></p>

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<p>Theodor W. Adorno (Tavistock Institute) was the brains behind the 'Beatles' as he held the rights to the music and eventually his estate sold those rights to Michael Jackson.
Adorno a classical musician wrote their music and it was all filtered down through Paul who could not read a note of music by the way. In fact the only half way real musician in the band was George Harrison. John was a poet who could strum a few chords and Ringo a hack drummer at best. George often wondered why they never wanted to use his songs. Oh and as an aside, Paul ended up being Knighted, and you don't get Knighted unless you have done as you were told and made your masters proud.
The Beatles were introduced to the public as a means to spread youth culture which led to the spreading of the 'New Age' culture and this was all geared to setting up a nihilistic culture that is all to present today. It's called divide and conquer but this gets into a whole different 'Pandora's Box' if you will. Things are not what they seem.
<a href="http://www.iorr.org/talk/read.php?1,1767100,1767100">http://www.iorr.org/talk/read.php?1,1767100,1767100</a></p>

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The Beatles did a perfect job, or perhaps it would be more correct to say that Tavistock and Stanford did a perfect job, the Beatles merely reacting like trained robots "with a little help from their friends"--code words for using drugs and making it "cool."</p>

<p>The Beatles became a highly visible "new type"-- more Tavistock jargon--and as such it was not long before the group made new styles (fads in clothing, hairstyles and language usage) which upset the older generation, as was intended. This was part of the"fragmentation-maladaptation" process worked out by Willis Harmon and his team of social scientists and genetic engineering tinkerers and put into action.
Tavistock connection is The Aquarian Conspiracy - LSD push</p>

<p><a href="http://portland.indymedia.org/en/2006/06/341573.shtml">http://portland.indymedia.org/en/2006/06/341573.shtml</a> &nbsp;</p>

<p>It Was Twenty Years Ago Today,"...That Crowley Drugged World Away: CIA psyops of 1960s-
author: webweaver</p>

<p><strong>Tavistock brought the Beatles to the United States ... an integral part of "THE CHANGING IMAGES OF MAN," URH (489)-2150-Policy Research Report No. 4/4/74. Policy Report pre-pared by SRI Center for the study of Social Policy, Director, Professor Willis Harmon.</strong>
<a href="http://forum.prisonplanet.com/index.php?topic=69013.25;wap2">http://forum.prisonplanet.com/index.php?topic=69013.25;wap2</a>


"It was no coincidence that Abbey Road Studios were conveniently sited just across the road from the Tavistock Institute of Human Relations, the vile Jewish and communist cultural Marxist think-tank who provided them with producer George Martin and which even today creates the cultural mores of the Jewknighted Kingdom through it&rsquo;s cultural control of the BBC and other Jewsmedia TV outlets pumping out soaps, game-shows, corrupting children&rsquo;s programmes as well as life, society, history and nation changing mass events like the Queen&rsquo;s Jubilee, Royal marriages, the Olympics and soon the commemoration of the first world war, using the masonic traitor-Queen as their major flagship to fool the people that these events somehow represent them, their tradition and their highest national values and standards. That we really were unaware that the Industrial Revolution was started not only by Englishmen but by black industrialists and as we shall see with the up-coming commemorations that the first and second world war was really fought by Indians, Pakistanis, Poles and Caribbeans with just a few whites thrown in."&nbsp;
<a href="http://endzog.wordpress.com/2014/01/05/beatles-hey-lets-destroy-the-white-race-lads/">http://endzog.wordpress.com/2014/01/05/beatles-hey-lets-destroy-the-white-race-lads/</a></p>

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The phenomenon of the Beatles was not a spontaneous rebellion by youth against the old social system. Instead it was a carefully crafted plot to introduce by a conspiratorial body which could not be identified, a highly destructive and divisive element into a large population group targeted for change against its will. New words and new phrases--prepared by Tavistock(1)-- were introduced to America along with the Beatles. Words such as "rock" in relation to music sounds, "teenager," "cool," "discovered" and "pop music" were a lexicon of disguised code words signifying the acceptance of drugs and arrived with and accompanied the Beatles wherever they went, to be "discovered" by "teenagers." Incidentally, the word "teenagers" was never used until just before the Beatles arrived on the scene, courtesy of the Tavistock Institute for Human Relations.
<a href="http://majestic12research.blogspot.com/2009/06/tavistock-institute.html">http://majestic12research.blogspot.com/2009/06/tavistock-institute.html</a></p>

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<strong>McLuhan</strong>:
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As propagandist and media expert Marshal McLuhan stated over lunch with Tim Leary:
The lunch with Marshall McLuhan at the Plaza was informative. &ldquo;Dreary Senate hearings and courtrooms are not the platforms for your message, Tim. You call yourself a philosopher, a reformer. Fine. But the key to your work is advertising. You&rsquo;re promoting a product. The new and improved accelerated brain. You must use the most current tactics for arousing consumer interest. Associate LSD with all the good things that the brain can produce&mdash;beauty, fun, philosophic wonder, religious revelation, increased intelligence, mystical romance. Word of mouth from satisfied consumers will help, but get your rock and roll friends to write jingles about the brain.&rdquo; He sang:
Lysergic acid hits the spot.
Forty billion neurons, that&rsquo;s a lot.
&ldquo;The problem is tricky,&rdquo; I said. &ldquo;The opposition beat us to the punch. The psychiatrists and police propagandists have already stressed the negative, which can be dangerous when the mind is re-imprinting under.
They may be deliberately provoking bad trips. They never mention the 999 good experiences. They keep repeating &lsquo;LSD: jump out a window.&rsquo; When some ill-prepared person goes spinning into new realms, he or she wonders what happens now? Oh yeah. Jump out a window. It&rsquo;s like the over-solicitous mother who warned her kids not to push peanuts up their noses.&rdquo;

&ldquo;Exactly,&rdquo; agreed McLuhan. &ldquo;<u>That&rsquo;s why your advertising must stress the religious. <strong>Find the god within</strong>.</u> This is all frightfully interesting. Your competitors are naturally denouncing the brain as an instrument of the devil. Priceless!
&ldquo;<u>To dispel fear you must use your public image. You are the basic product endorser. Whenever you are photographed, smile. Wave reassuringly. Radiate courage. Never complain or appear angry. It&rsquo;s okay if you come off as flamboyant and eccentric. You&rsquo;re a professor, after all</u>. <u>But a confident attitude is the best advertisement</u>. You must be known for your smile.&rdquo;
[&hellip;]
&ldquo;You&rsquo;re going to win the war, Timothy. Eventually. But you&rsquo;re going to lose some major battles on the way. You&rsquo;re not going to overthrow the Protestant Ethic in a couple years.[&hellip;]<a id="ednref1" title="" href="#edn1" name="_ednref1"> </a>[emphasis added]
~Timothy Leary</p>

<p>Serendipitously, here we see McLuhan giving Leary the exact instructions that he and Kleps used in the 1966 Congressional hearings, above; not to mention every time Leary was ever in the media or public.</p>

<p>And the serendipity was dripping when The Beatles came out with their <em>Sgt. Pepper&rsquo;s Lonely Hearts Club Band</em> album in 1967. And, by serendipity it must have been, that The Beatles got Marshal McLuhan&rsquo;s message to Leary, using lyrics such as &ldquo;picture yourself in a boat on a river&rdquo; which falls right into the suggestibility factor we&rsquo;ve been discussing, when McLuhan told Leary &ldquo;get your rock and roll friends to write jingles about the brain,&rdquo; just in time for the Summer of Love, and, by serendipity it must have been that Leary just happened to know such bands as The Beatles:</p>

<p>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
Aaaaahhhhh...
~ The Beatles, Lucy In the Sky With Diamonds</p>

<p>For those of you who don&rsquo;t already know this might come as a shocker, but &ldquo;<strong><u>L</u></strong>ucy in the <strong><u>S</u></strong>ky with <strong><u>D</u></strong>iamonds&rdquo; is a sales pitch, a jingle for their product &ndash; LSD. In <em>The Beatles and McLuhan: Understanding the Electric Age</em>, Thomas MacFarlane says that by 1966 The Beatles knew exactly what McLuhan meant. Serendipitously, in 1969, Marshal McLuhan would have a filmed conversation with them.</p>

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<p class="MsoEndnoteText"><a id="edn1" title="" href="#ednref1" name="_edn1"> </a> Timothy Leary, <em>Flashbacks</em>, J. P. Tarcher/Putnam books, 1983/1990, pp. 251-252. ISBN: 0-87477-497-7</p>

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"The Committee of 300" by Dr. John Coleman:</p>

<p>"An outstanding example of social conditioning to accept change - even when it is recognized as unwelcome change by a large population - in the sights of the Stanford Research Institute, was the advent of the Beatles. The Beatles were brought to the United States as part of a social experiment which would subject large population groups to brainwashing of which they were not even aware.</p>

<p>"When Tavistock brought the Beatles to the United States, nobody could imagine the cultural disaster that was to follow in their wake. The Beatles were an integral part of the Aquarian Conspiracy, a living organism which sprang from "The Changing Images of Man"... it was a carefully crafted plot by a conspiratorial body which could not be identified, a highly destructive and devisive element brought into a large population group targeted for change against its will.</p>

<p>"New words were introduced by the Tavistock Institute.. words such as "rock", "teenagers", "cool", "discover", and "pop music" were a lexicon of disguised code words signifying the acceptance of drugs that arrived with and accompanied the Beatles wherever they went, to be "discovered" by teenagers."</p>

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<em>The movie Rosemary's baby was filmed in the Dakota were John Lennon was shot to death. It also appears that John Lennon knew the director personally. &ldquo;The Director of Rosemary&rsquo;s Baby was Roman Polanski. (At a party in California in 1973, Lennon &lsquo;went berserk, hurling a chair out the window, smashing mirrors, heaving a TV against the wall, and screaming nonsense about film director Roman Polanski being to blame&rsquo; - Geoffrey Giuliano</em>
<a href="http://stargods.org/EvilBeatles.html">http://stargods.org/EvilBeatles.html</a></p>

<p>And also from last link:&nbsp;

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<em>An outstanding example of social conditioning to accept change, even when it is recognized as unwelcome change by the large population group in the sights of Stanford Research Institute, was the "advent" of the BEATLES. The Beatles were brought to the United States as part of a social experiment which would subject large population groups to brainwashing of which they were not even aware.&nbsp;</em>
<em>Tavistock and its Stanford Research Center created trigger words which then came into general usage around "rock music" and its fans. Trigger words created a distinct new break-away largely young population group which was persuaded by social engineering and conditioning to believe that the Beatles really were their favorite group. All trigger words devised in the context of "rock music" were designed for mass control of the new targeted group, the youth of America.&nbsp;<a href="http://www.illuminati-news.com/rock_and_mc.htm" target="_blank">
http://www.illuminati-news.com/rock_and_mc.htm</a>"&nbsp;
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<p><strong>The Beatles and the Aquarian Conspiracy</strong>


<em><a href="http://www.illuminati-news.com/rock_and_mc.htm" target="_blank">http://www.illuminati-news.com/rock_and_mc.htm</a></em>
<em>An outstanding example of social conditioning to accept change, even when it is recognized as unwelcome change by the large population group in the sights of Stanford Research Institute, was the "advent" of the BEATLES. The Beatles were brought to the United States as part of a social experiment which would subject large population groups to brainwashing of which they were not even aware.

When Tavistock brought the Beatles to the United States nobody could have imagined the cultural disaster that was to follow in their wake. The Beatles were an integral part of "THE AQUARIAN CONSPIRACY," a living organism which sprang From "THE CHANGING IMAGES OF MAN," URH (489)-2150-Policy Research Report No. 4/4/74. Policy Report pre-pared by SRI Center for the study of Social Policy, Director, Professor Willis Harmon.

The phenomenon of the Beatles was not a spontaneous rebellion by youth against the old social system. Instead it was a carefully crafted plot to introduce by a conspiratorial body which could not be identified, a highly destructive and divisive element into a large population group targeted for change against its will. New words and new phrases--prepared by Tavistock(1)-- were introduced to America along with the Beatles. Words such as "rock" in relation to music sounds, "teenager," "cool," "discovered" and "pop music" were a lexicon of disguised code words signifying the acceptance of drugs and arrived with and accompanied the Beatles wherever they went, to be "discovered" by "teenagers." Incidentally, the word "teenagers" was never used until just before the Beatles arrived on the scene, courtesy of the Tavistock Institute for Human Relations.

As in the case of gang wars, nothing could or would have been accomplished without the cooperation of the media, especially the electronic media and, in particular, the scurrilous Ed Sullivan who had been coached by the conspirators as to the role he was to play. Nobody would have paid much attention to the motley crew from Liverpool and the 12-atonal system of "music" that was to follow had it not been for an overabundance of press exposure. The 12-atonal system consisted of heavy, repetitive sounds, taken from the music of the cult of Dionysus and the Baal priesthood by Adorno and given a "modern" flavor by this special friend of the Queen of England and hence the Committee of 300.

Tavistock and its Stanford Research Center created trigger words which then came into general usage around "rock music" and its fans. Trigger words created a distinct new break-away largely young population group which was persuaded by social engineering and conditioning to believe that the Beatles really were their favorite group. All trigger words devised in the context of "rock music" were designed for mass control of the new targeted group, the youth of America.

The Beatles did a perfect job, or perhaps it would be more correct to say that Tavistock and Stanford did a perfect job, the Beatles merely reacting like trained robots "with a little help from their friends"--code words for using drugs and making it "cool." The Beatles became a highly visible "new type"-- more Tavistock jargon--and as such it was not long before the group made new styles (fads in clothing, hairstyles and language usage) which upset the older generation, as was intended. This was part of the "fragmentation-maladaptation" process worked out by Willis Harmon and his team of social scientists and genetic engineering tinkerers and put into action.

The role of the print and electronic media in our society is crucial to the success of brainwashing large population groups. Gang wars ended in Los Angeles in 1966 as the media withdrew its coverage. The same thing will happen with the current wave of gang wars in Los Angeles. Street gangs will wither on the vine once media saturation coverage is toned down and then completely withdrawn. As in 1966, the issue would become "burned out." Street gangs will have served their purpose of creating turbulence and insecurity. Exactly the same pattern will be followed in the case of "rock" music. Deprived of media attention, it will eventually take its place in history.

Following the Beatles, who incidentally were put together by the Tavistock Institute, came other "Made in England" rock groups, who, like the Beatles, had Theo Adorno write their cult lyrics and compose all the "music." I hate to use these beautiful words in the context of "Beatlemania"; it reminds me of how wrongly the word "lover" is used when referring to the filthy interaction between two homosexuals writhing in pigswill. To call "rock" music, is an insult, likewise the language used in "rock lyrics."

Tavistock and Stanford Research then embarked on the second phase of the work commissioned by the Committee of 300. This new phase turned up the heat for social change in America. As quickly as the Beatles had appeared on the American scene, so too did the "beat generation," trigger words designed to separate and fragment society. The media now focused its attention on the "beat generation." Other Tavistock-coined words came seemingly out of nowhere: "beatniks," "hippies," "flower children" became part of the vocabulary of America. It became popular to "drop out" and wear dirty jeans, go about with long unwashed hair. The "beat generation" cut itself off from main-stream America. They became just as infamous as the cleaner Beatles before them.

The newly-created group and its "lifestyle" swept millions of young Americans into the cult. American youth underwent a radical revolution without ever being aware of it, while the older generation stood by helplessly, unable to identify the source of the crisis, and thus reacting in a maladaptive manner against its manifestation, which were drugs of all types, marijuana, and later Lysergic acid, "LSD," so conveniently provided for them by the Swiss pharmaceutical company, SANDOZ, following the discovery by one of its chemists, Albert Hoffman, how to make synthetic ergotamine, a powerful mind-altering drug. The Committee of 300 financed the project through one of their banks, S. C. Warburg, and the drug was carried to America by the philosopher, Aldous Huxley.

The new "wonder drug" was promptly distributed in "sample" size packages, handed out free of charge on college campuses across the United States and at "rock" concerts, which became the leading vehicle for proliferating the use of drugs. The question that cries out for an answer is, what was the Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) doing at the time? There is compelling circumstantial evidence that would appear to indicate that the DEA knew what was going on but was ordered not to take any action.

With very substantial numbers of new British "rock" bands arriving in the U.S., rock concerts began to become a fixture on the social calendar of American youth. In tandem with these "concerts," the use of drugs among the youth rose in proportion. The devilish bedlam of discordant heavy beat sounds numbed the minds of listeners so that they were easily persuaded to try the new drug on the basis that "everybody is doing it." Peer pressure is a very strong weapon. The "new culture" received maximum coverage from the jackal media, which cost the conspirators not one single thin dime.

Great anger was felt by a number of civic leaders and churchmen over the new cult but their energies were misdirected against the RESULT of what was going on and not against the CAUSE. Critics of the rock cult made the same mistakes that had been made in the prohibition era, they criticized law enforcement agencies, teachers, parents anybody but the conspirators.</em></p>

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<p>Media researcher <strong>Brian Key</strong> observed: "The Beatles became <strong>the super drug culture <u>prophets</u></strong> of all time" (Key, Media Sexploitation, 1976, p. 136).
<a href="http://www.scribd.com/doc/25190176/Wilson-Bryan-Key-Media-Sexploitation">http://www.scribd.com/doc/25190176/Wilson-Bryan-Key-Media-Sexploitation</a></p>

<p>The student newspaper for the University of Wisconsin noted that the Beatles have "proselytized the use of drugs so subtly that words and conceptions once only common to drug users are found in sentences of teeny-boppers and statesmen alike" (Daily Cardinal, Dec. 3, 1968, p. 5, cited by David Noebel, The Legacy of John Lennon, p. 63).
John Lennon admitted that he began taking LSD in 1964 and that "it went on for years. I must have had a thousand trips. I used to just eat it all the time" (Rolling Stone, Jan. 7, 1971, p. 39; cited by Jann Wenner, Lennon Remembers, p. 76). John Lennon read Timothy Leary's book <em>The Psychedelic Experience</em> in 1966, after Paul McCartney took him to the Indica, a hip New Age bookshop in London. Lennon wrote "Tomorrow Never Knows" after taking LSD, and he wrote the songs ":Come Together" and "Give Peace a Chance" for Leary.
Their 1967 <strong>Sgt. Pepper's album</strong> heralded the drug revolution in America ("Approbation on Drug Usage in Rock and Roll Music," U.N. Bulletin on Narcotics, Oct.-Dec. 1969, p. 35; David Noebel, The Legacy of John Lennon, pp. 56,58). <em>Time</em> magazine reported that Sgt. Pepper's was "drenched in drugs" (Time, Sept. 22, 1967, p. 62). The album "<u>galvanized the acid subculture and gave LSD an international platform</u>" (Waiting for the Man, p. 145). BBC removed the Beatles' song "A Day in the Life" from the air because of its drug implications. On the Sgt. Pepper album Ringo Starr sang, "<strong>I get high with a little help from my friends.</strong>" The members of the Beatles later openly admitted that the album was "a drug album" (Flowers in the Dustbin, p.253). Sgt. Pepper's was hugely influential, one of the best-selling albums of rock history. The London Times' theater critic Kenneth Tynan observed that the Beatles' Sgt. Pepper album was "a decisive moment in the history of Western civilization."
Lennon admitted to the Rolling Stone interviewer that there were "a lot of obvious LSD things in the music." Lennon said, "God isn't in a pill, but LSD explained the mystery of life. It was a religious experience." In an interview with Playboy in 1981, Lennon said the Beatles smoked marijuana at breakfast and were so stoned that they were "just all glazed eyes." In 1969, Lennon said: "If people can't face up to the fact of other people being naked or smoking pot . then we're never going to get anywhere" (Penthouse, Oct. 1969, p. 29, cited in The Legacy of John Lennon, p. 66). Paul McCartney told Life magazine that he was "deeply committed to the possibilities of LSD as a universal cure-all." He went on to say, "After I took it, it opened my eyes. We only use one-tenth of our brain. Just think what all we could accomplish if we could only tap that hidden part. It would mean a whole new world. If politicians ould use LSD, there would be no more war, poverty or famine" (Life, June 6, 1967, p. 105).
Just as Hugh Hefner brought pornography out of the closet and popularized it, so the Beatles brought illegal drugs out of the closet and popularized them! That is their legacy!
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