McCartney talks about drug use......

[Jrnygrl]

I thought we already knew this about the Beatles, but here is an article where Paul talks about his drug days.

Paul McCartney Talks About Drug Use
Jun 2, 11:00 AM EST

The Associated Press

LONDON -- Paul McCartney says he got no thrill from heroin, but found cocaine more to his liking for a time.

"I tried heroin just the once," McCartney said in interview published Wednesday in the Daily Mirror newspaper about his drug use in decades past.

"Even then, I didn't realize I'd taken it. I was just handed something, smoked it, then found out what it was.

"It didn't do anything for me, which was lucky because I wouldn't have fancied heading down that road," the former Beatle was quoted as saying.

The full interview is published this week in Uncut magazine.

McCartney's drug use has resulted in at least one brush with the law. A planned Japan tour in 1980 was derailed when the singer was arrested at Tokyo's airport for possession of marijuana and later deported.

Despite enjoying cocaine for a time, he said he eventually turned against the drug.

"I did cocaine for about a year around the time of Sgt. Pepper," he said, referring to The Beatles' 1967 album.

"Coke and maybe some grass to balance it out. I was never completely crazy with cocaine.

"I'd been introduced to it and at first it seemed OK, like anything that's new and stimulating.

"When you start working your way through it, you start thinking: 'Mmm, this is not so cool an idea,' especially when you start getting those terrible comedowns," McCartney said. He confirmed that drugs influenced some of the group's songs.

"A song like 'Got to Get You Into My Life,' that's directly about pot, although everyone missed it at the time," McCartney said.

"'Day Tripper,' that's one about acid (LSD). 'Lucy in the Sky,' that's pretty obvious. There's others that make subtle hints about drugs, but, you know, it's easy to overestimate the influence of drugs on the Beatles' music."

"Just about everyone was doing drugs in one form or another and we were no different, but the writing was too important for us to mess it up by getting off our heads all the time," McCartney added.

McCartney also acknowledged that Wings, the band he formed after The Beatles' breakup, was "pretty rough, not terribly good" when it started out.

"There was a time when The Beatles weren't very good, but we were able to be not very good in private," McCartney said.

"Wings had to do it in public and there was always the shadow of The Beatles, which didn't help."

[Penny Lane]

I'm glad that he was smart enough to stop using. John and Yoko became full blown heroin addicts but happily overcame that! And I think that Ringo is a recovering alcoholic. Sadly this usually becomes part of the music/celebrity scene. It always has. I applaud all of those who got off the stuff before it killed them!

[TJL]

Wait, "Lucy In The Sky" is a song about drugs?

What else aren't you people telling me!!!!!

[Jrnygrl]

Originally posted by TJL
Wait, "Lucy In The Sky" is a song about drugs?

What else aren't you people telling me!!!!!

Who knew!

[isiahthomas]

Is The Beatles Got To Get U Into My Life song lyrics the same as Earth Wind & Fire's song? I didn't know Paul McCartney used drugs. Why is it that so many entertainers use drugs? Don't people have a mind of their own? It seems to me that when entertainers go to these parties, they can't seem to tell people no that they don't wanna do drugs when it's being offered to them.

[Jrnygrl]

Originally posted by isiahthomas
Is The Beatles Got To Get U Into My Life song lyrics the same as Earth Wind & Fire's song? I didn't know Paul McCartney used drugs. Why is it that so many entertainers use drugs? Don't people have a mind of their own? It seems to me that when entertainers go to these parties, they can't seem to tell people no that they don't wanna do drugs when it's being offered to them.

Yes Earth, Wind and Fire did a great version of this song. Its from the Sgt. Pepper movie.

Your right about the drug thing, I'm not judging anyone, but Paul says in the interview that he gave it up. You have to remember its part of the music culture, I don't know if it is as strong today as it was back in the day. It breaks my heart to know that a lot of musicians aren't around today because of their drug use. Eric Clapton had a problem with drugs, and this weekend he is having a benefit concert in Texas with a lot of guitar greats, its called the Crossroads, it is to raise money for his drug rehab facility that he has down in the Bahamas. Eric Clapton has also spoken out against his drug use, and how he almost couldn't beat it. Bonnie Raitt also had a problem with alcohol abuse, because she thought to be a blues singer you needed to do the booze and drugs, and get to the lowest that you can to feel the music. Keith Richards is a great example of how drugs can steal your soul, if you look at pictures of Keith from the early 70's and now you will see a dramatic change, and its not just age. Sometime artists feel they need something to get their creative waves going. Unfortunately this is how some chose.

[Penny Lane]

Originally posted by isiahthomas
Is The Beatles Got To Get U Into My Life song lyrics the same as Earth Wind & Fire's song? I didn't know Paul McCartney used drugs. Why is it that so many entertainers use drugs? Don't people have a mind of their own? It seems to me that when entertainers go to these parties, they can't seem to tell people no that they don't wanna do drugs when it's being offered to them.

Remember that when they started using drugs that this was the 60's and they were very young. Young people think that they are immortal. And yes, they and everyone else should say no.

[crystals]

Originally posted by TJL
Wait, "Lucy In The Sky" is a song about drugs?

What else aren't you people telling me!!!!!

Actually, I read A Hard Day's Write by Steve Turner, that tells the stories behind all the Beatles songs and according to the book "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds" was about a drawing Julian Lennon drew of his friend Lucy O'Donnell. Here's an excerpt from the book. p.122-p.123


One afternoon early in 1967, Julian Lennon came home from his nursery school with a painting that he said was of his classmate, four-year-old Lucy O'Donnell. Explaining his artwork to his father, Julian described it as Lucy- 'in the sky with diamonds'. This phrase stuck in John's mind and triggered off the stream of associations that led to the writing of the dream-like "Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds", one of three tracks on the Sgt. Pepper album which received enough syllables and so it became 'a love at first sight'.

The suggestion that the song was a description of an LSD trip appeared to be substantiated when it was noted that the initials in the title spelled LSD. Yet John consistently denied this, going into great detail in interviews about the drugs he had taken. He insisted that the title was taken from what Julian had said about his painting. Julian himself recalls, "I don't know why I called it that or why it stood out from all my other drawings but I obviously had an affection for Lucy at that age. I used to show dad everything I'd built or painted at school and this one sparked off the idea for a song about Lucy in the sky with diamonds."

Lucy O'Donnell (now 36 and working as a teacher with special needs' children) lived near the Lennon family in Weybridge and she and Julian were pupils at Heath House, a nursery school run by two old ladies in a rambling Edwardian house. "I can remember Julian at school," says Lucy, who didn't discover that she'd been immortalized in a Beatle's song until she was 13. "I can remember him very well. I can see his face clearly....we used to sit alongside each other in proper old-fashioned desks. The house was enormous and they had heavy curtains to divide the classrooms. Julian and I were a couple of little menaces from what I've been told."

-p.122-p.123, A Hard Day's Write, The Stories Behind Every Beatles Song, by Steve Turner

[MonarC]

WOW im so shocked! not!
If you didn't already know that...
get your head out of the 'marijuana' clouds.