McCartney Times

For The Beatles, the summer of love should have been entirely defined by the singular statement of Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band, which was released in June of 1967 and would go on to transcend its own psychedelic era to become an all-time pop classic. Instead, just a few months after the LSD-infused Sgt Pepper arrived in record shops, the media circus around the Fab Four had taken a bizarre and ultimately tragic turn. Despite the important role The Beatles had played in further de-stigmatising the use of recreational drugs among youthful hippies from London to San Francisco, the band were already growing a bit tired of their role as hallucinogenic ambassadors, particularly as they were diving deeper into the alternative, drug-free version of mind expansion through transcendental mediation, as taught by their new hero, Maharishi Mahesh Yogi.

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