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Joe Goodden’s Followers (2)
Joe Goodden
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Riding So High: The Beatles and Drugs
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published
2017
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6 editions
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“To get through the long nights they were given a new spur: Preludin, or ‘Prellies’ – German slimming pills which removed their appetites and gave them the energy to take their stage shows to new, often chaotic, levels.”
― Riding So High: The Beatles and Drugs
― Riding So High: The Beatles and Drugs
“People were making concoctions that were really wicked – ten times stronger than LSD. STP was one; it took its name from the fuel additive used in Indy-car racing. Mama Cass Elliot phoned us up and said, “Watch out, there’s this new one going round called STP.” I never took it. They concocted weird mixtures and the people in Haight-Ashbury got really fucked-up. It made me realise: “This is not it.” And that’s when I really went for the meditation.”
― Riding So High: The Beatles and Drugs
― Riding So High: The Beatles and Drugs
“Cannabis was key to this new sound, and as the Fifties gave way to the Sixties it gradually replaced speed as the hipster drug of choice. ‘We’d heard of Ellington and Basie and jazz guys smoking a bit of pot,’ said Paul McCartney, ‘and now it arrived on our music scene. It started to find its way into everything we did, really. It coloured our perceptions. I think we started to realise there weren’t as many frontiers as we’d thought there were. And we realised we could break barriers.’9”
― Riding So High: The Beatles and Drugs
― Riding So High: The Beatles and Drugs
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