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2026-08-08 07:39 UTC

I just learned that John Lennon made a half-hearted pass at my cousin Joan while the Beatles were holed up in Hollywood during their 1965 tour. Later John and George Harrison dropped acid with Ringo but Paul refused. Peter Fonda was there. He tried to calm down George, who thought he might be dying, by talking about when he shot himself as a kid, saying "I know what it is like to be dead". But this just freaked out everyone. Lennon urged him to drop the subject, saying "Who put all that shit in your head?" and "You're making me feel like I've never been born." And thus the song lyrics. But I want to know what my cousin did! I think she'd probably left. I read she was annoyed by all the groupies waiting for the band members to, umm, pay attention to them. (1/2) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tsIYi9scrvg

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@johncarlosbaez@mathstodon.xyz 2026-08-08 09:01

Most of this crazy story is on Wikipedia: "In late August 1965, Brian Epstein had rented a house at 2850 Benedict Canyon Drive[8] in Beverly Hills, California, for the Beatles' six-day respite from their US tour. The large Spanish-style house was hidden within the side of a mountain. Soon their address became widely known and the area was besieged by fans, who blocked roads and tried to scale the steep canyon while others rented helicopters to spy from overhead. The police department detailed a tactical squad of officers to protect the band and the house. The Beatles found it impossible to leave and instead invited guests, including actress Eleanor Bron (their co-star in the film Help!) and folk singer Joan Baez. On 24 August, they played host to Roger McGuinn and David Crosby of the Byrds and actor Peter Fonda. Having first taken LSD ("acid") in March that year, John Lennon and George Harrison were determined that Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr should join them on their next experience of the drug. [...] While Starr agreed to try the drug, McCartney refused to partake. As the group passed time in the large sunken tub in the bathroom, Fonda brought up his nearly fatal self-inflicted childhood gunshot accident, writing later that he was trying to comfort Harrison, who was overcome by fear that he might be dying. Fonda said that he knew what it was like to be dead, since he had technically died in the operating theatre. Lennon urged him to drop the subject, saying "Who put all that shit in your head?" and "You're making me feel like I've never been born." Harrison recalls in The Beatles Anthology: "[Fonda] was showing us his bullet wound. He was very uncool." (2/2) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/She_Said_She_Said

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