The Beatles have LSD explained to them by Peter Fonda

August 1965: Number 9 in our series of the 50 key events in the history of rock musicThere were psychedelic records before the Beatles made Revolver, but it took the Beatles to make psychedelia part of the mainstream. John Lennon's curiosity about LSD was piqued by a party at the Playboy Mansion when actor Peter Fonda tried to describe the drug's effects. "I know what it's like to be dead," he said to George Harrison. "You're making me feel like I've never been born," interjected Lennon. The enc...

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