George Harrison's Thoughts on LSD
LSD played a big role in The Beatles‘ evolution of music. It famously brought John Lennon and George Harrison closer together after they unknowingly took LSD for the first time after a dinner party host plopped some in their coffees. And it also created tensions in the band when Paul McCartney announced his hesitation to participate.
Two years after the first time Harrison took LSD, he gave an interview where he shared his thoughts on the psychedelic.
Harrison felt there was a misunderstanding that after he took LSD, he was a huge proponent of the psychedelic. He said in an interview with Melody Maker in 1967 that it should be a totally individual choice.
“This is a thing that I want to try and get over to people,” he said, as recorded in the book George Harrison on George Harrison.” Although we’ve been identified a lot with hippies, especially since all this thing about pot and LSD’s come out, we don’t want to tell anyone else to have it because it’s something that’s up to the person himself. Although it was like a key that opened the door and showed a lot of things on the other side, it’s still up to people themselves what they do with it. LSD isn’t a real answer.”
Source: cheatsheet.com
