Beatle McCartney Details Drug Use
Former Beatle Sir Paul McCartney said he tried heroin once and used
cocaine for a year, the BBC reported June 2.
About trying heroin, McCartney said, "I didn't realize I'd
taken it. I was just handed something and smoked it. It didn't do
anything for me."
Although he used cocaine "for about a year," McCartney
said he was "never completely crazy" about the drug.
McCartney said drugs "informed" numerous Beatle songs.
For instance, he said "Got To Get You Into My Life" was
"about pot -- although everyone missed it at the time,"
and Day Tripper was "about acid."
But McCartney said writing songs was more important to him than
getting high on drugs. "Just about everyone was doing them
in one form or another. We were no different," he said. "But
the writing was too important for us to mess it up by getting off
our heads all the time."
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