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I’d Love to Turn You On

By Michael Gerber|2026-03-26T12:47:44-07:00March 25, 2026|Drugs|

The Beatles and friend in Hamburg, May 1962 Getting to those 10,000 hours at double speed. In the course of (as the kids say) "chopping it up" in the comments, I stumbled on a topic that I'd like to (re-) address. It's one that I've talked about incessantly on this blog, but it suddenly occurred to me that after all the posts and all the comments over the years, I might never have explained why. At one point I was fascinated by the intersection of The Beatles and addiction, and wrote about it a lot here. Even though you could [...]

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Drugs and Differences

By Nancy Carr|2022-09-04T17:56:19-07:00May 16, 2016|1980, Drugs, John Lennon, Paul McCartney, Wings|

Given the comments on a recent thread beginning here, we've decided to resurface a great post by Nancy on the topic. Originally posted 3/13/13.--MG On the apparently unstoppable "How Do You Sleep?" thread, Peter Deville commented that "it's interesting to note that the growing differences within the band coincided with a divergence in their individual drugs of choice, having made the collective journey from alcohol to uppers to pot." He adds: "Acid initially created that soon-to-be familiar fissure, with John, George and Ringo on one side and Paul on the other. I'm not suggesting that the drug divergence was responsible for the [...]

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Posted without comment

By Michael Gerber|2014-07-23T11:57:43-07:00January 23, 2013|Paul McCartney|

When you go to the URL at the bottom, all it says is, "There are seven levels."

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The Dizz Gillespie Story

By Devin McKinney|2022-07-24T12:59:16-07:00February 12, 2008|Brian Epstein|

This is a true story, set down soon after its occurrence. I have no witnesses to corroborate the denouement, but I did tell my companions what had happened seconds later. This was in the first draft of my book Magic Circles, but was cut for reasons of length and shapeliness. One hates to see a good story, especially a true one, go untold; now, thanks to the miracle of blogspace, no story, good, bad, boring, true or untrue, need go untold again. It’s up to you to winnow out one from the other—a new challenge for the millennial reader. Who said the [...]

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Oh! Our mistake

By Michael Gerber|2022-07-24T12:51:53-07:00February 1, 2008|biography, books, Drugs, McCartney|

Harmless-seeming Pied Piper of the Get High Generation From Many Years from Now, Paul McCartney's memoir/bio, page 314: "...Another inaccurate but frequently told story is that 'Fixing a Hole' was about heroin. This track is actually about marijuana."

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