McCartney Times

A drug-induced haze swept over many young people during the 1960s, a time when bands like Grateful Dead, The 13th Floor Elevators, The Electric Prunes, and, of course, The Beatles, were taking inspiration from psychedelia, which was increasingly dominating the cultural landscape. Acid was taken by the new generation of post-war children who believed in the power of love and rock music, spending their days getting high as they had their minds blown by the sounds of instruments that hadn’t been commonly used in Western music before, like a sitar. Encouraging a state of blissful detachment from reality, it wasn’t long before the psychedelic films became popular, from Daisies and The Trip to 2001: A Space Odyssey and Yellow Submarine.

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Source: ‘Wonderwall’: the film starring Jane Birkin and scored by George Harrison