McCartney Times

One of the most memorable scenes in D.A. Pennebaker’s never-released film Eat the Document finds Bob Dylan sharing a taxi with John Lennon on May 27, 1966.This bizarre, apparently drug-fueled meeting remains as historic as it was utterly awkward. There’s a reason for that. Lennon later seemed to confirm that they had both done heroin. He described this period, in a talk with Rolling Stone magazine’s Jann Wenner, as one in which they were “both in shades, and both on f—ing junk.”As they ride around London, Lennon appears to be trying his best to play along with the film’s premise, while Dylan falls apart. “Do you suffer from sore eyes, groovy forehead, or curly hair? Take Zimdon!” Lennon mockingly says at one point. Later, he tries to encourage Dylan, saying “come, come, boy, it’s only a film. Pull yourself together.” The two rock legends spend the bulk of their time together engaged in a rangy, free-form conversation that runs from the Mamas and Papas and Barry McGuire to music publishing and the idea that the Thames kept Hitler from invading England.

Source: 50 Years Ago: Bob Dylan and John Lennon Take a Bizarre Cab Ride