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Discussion Thread #6 - The Beatles and Drugs

May 04, 2009 23:39

Anon Beatles Discussion Thread #6

Topic:
The Beatles and Drugs
(From "prellies" in Hamburg, to being introduced to marajuana to John's heroin use in the 70's, you can talk about your opinon on The Beatles and drug use. Did it help creativity? Did it harm them in the long run? Could they have done without? Discuss any and all regarding this topic. )

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anonymous May 5 2009, 14:38:11 UTC

i think drugs didn't have as much influence on their songs as people (the general population) think. i know people who won't listen to their music because they think every song has some hidden drug meaning.

anonymous May 5 2009, 20:33:01 UTC

Yeah, I hate that, too. Once in my Psycology class I was trying to tell a group of guys that the NAME for Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds was derived from a picture John's son Julian made - I said the lyrics of the song itself where definatly influenced by a drug trip, but the NAME was not. That group of guys just laughed at me and didn't belive me.

anonymous May 5 2009, 14:50:46 UTC

John blamed himself for introducing Brian to drugs. Should we?

anonymous May 5 2009, 19:07:20 UTC

O.M.G. an amazing topic I've always wanted to talk with someone about ( ... )

anonymous May 5 2009, 19:06:30 UTC

Obviously it helped with their creativity. Drugs did not make the Beatles, but they played a role in the direction which their music went.

I don't really care if they did drugs or not, I don't understand why some fans get their panties in a knot about it.

anonymous May 5 2009, 21:09:40 UTC

I agree with a few of the thoughts on here.

My belief was always that the drugs were just a smaller part of their changing moods on spirituality on the whole [and with this came the changes in their music].

I guess my thought is it did influence them to some extent, yes, but if it weren't these changes it would have been others [probably just as good, too. Just a little different].

anonymous May 6 2009, 01:23:38 UTC

Do you guys think that the boys would have created the same music they did without drugs? Obviously they wouldn't have since a lot of it--as mentioned in a comment above, Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds for example--heavily influenced by drugs. What I mean is...would their style have developed as it did without drugs? Or would they have found another way into their late 60s style? (Musically, I mean. Not fashion.) Their style was also obviously influenced by religion--George and the sitar, etc. So would religion have been their other route into said style? Or would they have gone another way altogether?