That hardly made any difference, frankly the fact was that John was only too likely to imagine he could fly, and launch himself off the low parapet that ran around the roof. He had taken it by mistake, they said - he had meant to take an amphetamine tablet. Maybe everyone else did, too - everyone except for father-figure George Martin here! They had come tearing up from the studio as soon as they found out where we were. No sooner had John uttered his immortal words about the stars than George and Paul came bursting out on the roof. He was wired-pin-sharp and quivering, resonating away like a human tuning fork. It was very unlike John to be over the top in that way. The stars did look good but they didn't look that good. That was, ‘Okay, that's John.’ You'd have to talk him down a bit - ‘No, probably not Hitler…’ I could say to him, ‘No, we're not doing that.’ He was a good enough guy to know when he was being told.“We stood there for a minute or two, with John swaying gently against my arm. Pepper cover he wanted Jesus Christ and Hitler on there. I don't remember him actually ever doing it. He was the kind of guy that could do that. “I don't remember that,” McCartney replied. “Did he really come to that meeting near the end of the Beatles and say he was Jesus Christ?” GQ’s Chris Heath had to ask McCartney. We’re more popular than Jesus now.”Īpparently, there’s a lesser-known but more controversial claim that Lennon reportedly made - that he was Christ himself. I needn’t argue about that I know I’m right and I will be proved right. “Christianity will go,” Lennon once said, which promptly started a Ban the Beatles movement. But a member of The Beatles actually did it before these two controversial pop superstars did. Lady Gaga and Madonna are known today for their seemingly anti-Christian imagery in their music videos. ‘But look, John, you try it and let me know how it goes.’” In the end, Lennon decided not to do the procedure. And all you'd have to do is just bore a little hole in your skull and it lets the pressure off - well, that sounds very sensible. “The ‘ancient art of trepanning,’ which lent a little bit of validity to it, because ancient must be good. We'd all read about it - you know, this is the '60s,” McCartney recounted Lennon’s plans of doing trepanning. But it was McCartney’s adamant refusal that probably aborted his mate’s plans. The procedure became a fad in those days, and one of the members of The Beatles was contemplating on undergoing the procedure. While it is obviously a potentially dangerous procedure, there are sites who advocate do-it-yourself trepanation. Trepanning or trepanation is an ancient practice where a hole is drilled into the skull believing that it will cure some diseases such as epilepsy, blindness and mental illness. You certainly had insights into what life might be.” “But you certainly weren't the same again. “But it wasn't as bad as I'd imagined, it wasn't a sort of horrific thing,” the singer recalled his experience. McCartney recalled that he did it because he was encouraged by a friend to microdose. Indeed, that’s the case when it came to using acid - he was the last The Beatles member to take the substance. For Beatle fans, McCartney revealed a few interesting details about the band in an interview with GQ.īack then, McCartney was seen as the sensible/reluctant one among the four members. John Lennon was shot and died in 1980, while George Harrison died due to lung cancer in 2001. Sadly, only two members - Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr - of the four-member band remain alive today. Formed in Liverpool in 1960, it became so famous worldwide that it was considered one of the most influential bands in history. Even members of the younger generation today probably heard something about The Beatles, the English band composed of Paul McCartney, John Lennon, George Harrison and Ringo Starr.
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