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Lennon & the band did insist this was the reason, but c'mon... You can hear the psychedelia dripping from every chord! They knew exactly what they were doing. R
by Liquix 9y ago
Lennon & the band did insist this was the reason, but c'mon... You can hear the psychedelia dripping from every chord! They knew exactly what they were doing. Reminds one of how Scully & Sand's legal team insisted Orange Sunshine was ALD-52 (LSD's legal cousin) to try and avoid prosecution!
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- seanmcdirmid 9y agoThat is post facto association. We only think that because the song became associated with LSD, if you heard the song in 1967 when it just came out, you wouldn’t have made the connection because the association didn’t exist yet.
- Liquix 9y agoTwo counterpoints: A) Lennon discovered and got very deep into LSD in 1966, mere months before Lucy in the Sky was written. He had a powerful ego death experience [1]. B) Admitting to the public that one of their hit songs was about a controversial drug was an obvious PR no-no. I guess there's no way to know for certain either way, though. [1] "When McCartney and Lennon visited the newly opened Indica bookshop, Lennon had been looking for a copy of The Portable Nietzsche but found a copy of The Psychedelic Experience by Timothy Leary, Richard Alpert, and Ralph Metzner, adapted from the translation of the Tibetan Book of the Dead by Walter Evans-Wentz, which was introduced to Leary by Aldous Huxley. Lennon bought the book, went home and followed the instructions exactly as stated in the book. It discussed an “ego death” experienced under the influence of LSD and other psychedelic drugs, supposedly essentially similar to the dying process, and requiring similar guidance." https://books.google.com/books?id=FQSLCwAAQBAJ&pg=PA240 https://books.google.com/books?id=FQSLCwAAQBAJ&pg=PA240