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They smoked grass on the way to the Bahamas on the way to the Bahamas, roaring an après ski party in Austria and Albert: everywhere and everywhere. The Beatles on tour were a wild, uninhibited band that already smoked grass for breakfast. At least that’s the myth.
But even during their recording sessions, the Beatles were kept watching as they pulled on a joint and enjoyed themselves. Her love for the stimulating hemp plant even immortalized her with the song “Got To Get You Into My Life”, a tribute to the drug. Paul McCartney now remembered how Bob Dylan made the Beatles known with marijuana in 1964.
Ringo tried the drug first
So Ringo Starr is said to have been the first band member to try the drug. At that time, the Beatles lived for two days in the New York Delmonico Hotel an der Park Avenue, near Manhattan’s Central Park. While the band became high for the first time, fans were probably in front of the hotel in front of the hotel, retained by barricades, and the lobby and the corridors were guarded by police officers.
At the time, however, Dylan was not too pleased to be the guy who brought the Beatles in contact with pot. So McCartney says: “I am not sure whether Bob is keen to be stamped as the guy who has made the Beatles known with the stuff. I heard that he somehow tried to play it down a bit – but whatever he says is the truth.” Nevertheless, McCartney remembers the experience positively.
Paul McCartney: “We all ran into the back room to cost the evil substance”
During the same interview, in which he described Elvis Presley as the second coolest person he had ever met, McCartney Adam Buxteon told in his podcast: “I remember pretty well. We lived in this hotel and I think we were on tour. In a back room, one of the rooms next to the suite.
After Ringo returned a few minutes later, he probably looked “a bit dazed and confused”, says McCartney. “We asked, ‘What’s going on?’ He said, ‘Oh, Bob smokes grass back there.’ We had never tried it. Ringo said: ‘Well, the ceiling feels like it was getting down a little. And we all ran into the back room to cost the evil substance.
From this point on, the drug was probably not a rare companion of the band. McCartney added that he “hung a few times with Bob”, also on other hotel evenings, and said: “We had a few good times together. He is a great guy.”
Despite his euphoric experiences, McCartney himself no longer smokes a grass, as he claimed in 2015.