McCartney Times

John Lennon and The Beatles were not internationally famous for their drug-taking per se. Their music and their output as artists always trumped the fact that they experimented with drugs during the 1960s; considering the vast amount of records they sold and box office tickets they filled, this is a given. However, the band’s connection to the burst of creativity that erupted out of the counterculture of the decade, and the neat line which can be drawn between it and the proliferation of both marijuana and LSD during that time, is a difficult thing to untangle from their legacy.The group, like the decade itself, started with a pop of energy. They were a British incarnation of the solid rock ‘n’ roll that had emerged from America. They relined the fabric of their suits with a shimmying skiffle and went on stage to become the biggest band on the planet. As the ’60s moved on, so did The Beatles, and the pop group of old began to disappear.

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