Was John Lennon a Heroin Addict? Did Paul Love Coke? The Beatles on Drugs: Speed, Acid, & the Love Between John and Paul with Ian Leslie | Dopey Wednesday

Link for Biden Tickets: Tickets: Hunter Biden with David Manheim — December 20 at 92NY www.patron.com/dopeypodcast This week on a very very special Wednesday Wild Card DOSE of Dopey! Author Ian Leslie joins me to talk about one of my favorite books, John and Paul, A Love Story through Songs - and the drugs, grief, jealousy, and love behind the Beatles’ extraordinary partnership. We follow the Beatles from speed-fueled nights in Hamburg to getting stoned with Bob Dylan, John accidentally taking acid at Abbey Road, and Paul joining him for a trip that brought them even closer. We get into McCartney’s cocaine use, Lennon’s relationship with heroin, and whether songs like “Two of Us,” “Oh! Darling,” and “Jealous Guy” were ways of saying things they couldn’t say directly to each other. Plus, losing their mothers, Phil Collins versus Paul McCartney, and why the Beatles made getting high so interesting to me in the first place. PLUS: a listener’s first experience smoking meth in San Francisco, memories of Todd, spiritual dollars, your comments, and the new Wall Street Journal piece about Dopey. All that and much, much more on a very Beatle-esque Wednesday DOSE of Dopey! Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.