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Aug 28, 2015 · The mid-to-late '60s saw the Beatles morphing from mop-topped pop stars into Nehru jacket-wearing mystics – a transformation that may have started on Aug. 28, 1964, when Bob Dylan introduced the...
Aug 28, 2023 · Bob Dylan showed up, sparked up, and changed the lives of the Beatles by turning them on to cannabis, on this day in 1964.
Jan 24, 2011 · Brian and The Beatles looked at each other apprehensively. “We’ve never smoked marijuana before,” Brian finally admitted. Dylan looked disbelievingly from face to face. “But what about your song?” he asked. “The one about getting high?” The Beatles were stupefied. “Which song?” John managed to ask.
- From ‘Zimmerman’ to ‘Dylan’
- ‘Those Things Aren’T Drugs’
- Introducing The Beatles to Cannabis
- Kicking Drugs
- Reinvention and Back
Dylan doesn’t remember who specifically turned him on to cannabis, but in the early 1960s, while perusing the coffeehouse scene in Dinkytown, Minnesota, cannabis was plentiful and abundant. He often played at Ten O’Clock Scholar, a coffee house near the University of Minnesota where he was enrolled as a student. It was during these performances tha...
As his popularity was beginning to take off, Dylan was interviewed by Playboy magazineand asked about drug use: “Considering the risks involved, do you think that experimentation with such drugs should be part of the growing-up experience for a young person?” Dylan pondered the question for a moment before replying. “I wouldn’t advise anybody to us...
In 1964, in New York’s Delmonico Hotel, Bob Dylan met up with the Beatles after being introduced by a mutual friend. They settled into the hotel room and Dylan suggested they smoke a joint. The boys from Liverpool eyed each other sheepishly before admitting to him, “We’ve never smoked marijuana before.” Dylan was so surprised, he didn’t believe the...
By 1969, Dylan was strung out and exhausted. “ I was on the road for almost five years,” he told Rolling Stone co-founder Jann Wenner. “It wore me down. I was on drugs, a lot of things. A lot of things just to keep going, you know? And I don’t want to live that way anymore.” It was during this time he was rumored to have kicked a heroin habit in Ne...
By the mid-1970’s, Dylan had embraced a whole new side of himself as a born-again Christian. He recorded two albums of contemporary gospel music, including the song “Gotta Serve Somebody,” for which he won the Grammy for Best Male Rock Vocal Performance. His literal change of tune irked many of his fans, as well as several of his fellow musicians. ...
Aug 28, 2014 · August 28, 2014. Fifty years ago today, the band that would turn the world on to marijuana got turned on to marijuana. Perhaps the mostly influential sesh in history happened on August 28, 1964...
Jan 31, 2019 · Almost instinctively, Dylan and his reporter friend Al Aronowitz suggested to smoke weed. At this suggestion, The Beatles looked at each other and Epstein admitted, “We’ve never smoked marijuana before.” As if it was the strangest thing he’s ever heard, Dylan asked in disbelief, “But what about your song? The one about getting high?”
Jan 15, 2021 · Bob Dylan. Speaking of Bob. The prolific folk-rock troubadour has found inspiration in cannabis throughout his music career. He wrote many songs while under its influence, including the protest anthem, “A Hard Rain’s Gonna Fall.” Dylan says he doesn’t consider cannabis a drug. He views the plant as a mind-altering medicine.
