McCartney Times

The Beatles were all pretty big potheads by 1966. Although that year would become more notorious thanks to their dalliances with LSD, cannabis was still a major draw for all four members of the band. John Lennon was using the drug extensively, and its effects would help inspire some of the more experimental elements to the band’s single, ‘Rain’.

“I don’t think he brought the original idea; just when we sat down to write, he kicked it off,” Paul McCartney recalled in the book Many Years From Now. “Songs have traditionally treated rain as a bad thing, and what we got on to was that it’s no bad thing. There’s no greater feeling than the rain dripping down your back. The most interesting thing about it wasn’t the writing, which was tilted 70-30 to John, but the recording of it.”

Read more, click link below…

Source: The Beatles song John Lennon credited to the marijuana gods