The Beatles’ First LSD Trip — and Lennon’s Hidden ‘Timothy Leary Sh*t’ Bad Experience (Rare Clip)

John Lennon gives one of his most detailed, unfiltered accounts of taking LSD — from the dentist who secretly dosed him and George Harrison in London in 1965, to the terrifying hallucinations that followed, to the later California trip with Crosby, Stills & Nash, Peter Fonda, and English reporters. This extended Rolling Stone interview clip includes material rarely heard anywhere else: 🔹 The London “dinner party” acid spike – Lennon describes how a dentist put LSD into their coffee without telling them – George Harrison drove them around London at 10mph while everything appeared on fire – Lennon recalls tables stretching, lifts burning, and hysterical laughing in the street 🔹 The second trip in California (1966) – Taken deliberately at “Doris Day’s house” (though I've since confirmed, it wasn't Doris Day's house, it was Zsa Zsa Gabor's house they actually stayed at.) – With George, Ringo, Neil Aspinall, David Crosby, and Roger McGuinn – Peter Fonda’s “I know what it’s like to be dead” line appears here (inspiring She Said She Said) – Lennon talks about paranoia around reporters seeing them high 🔹 His accidental studio trip – Lennon thought he’d taken uppers and suddenly realised he was coming up on acid while trying to record – George Martin had to take him onto the roof to calm him down 🔹 Why Lennon stopped taking LSD – He says he took “a thousand trips,” often “eating it all the time” – LSD “profoundly shocked” George – Paul stayed away for years because the others were “slightly cruel” about it 🔹 The rarely-heard part This clip includes Lennon openly criticising the 1960s psychedelic ideology: “I got the wrong message that LSD destroys your ego — and I did. I was reading that stupid book of Leary’s and all that rubbish.” Lennon describes how the Leary-inspired ego-death concept sent him into a collapse, leaving him powerless within the Beatles until Derek Taylor and Yoko Ono helped rebuild his sense of self. 0:00 Intro Talking about first being spiked with LSD 4:06 Talking about when he took it in LA 1966 4:36 Says it was at "Doris Day's house" list of people they took it with 6:10 Talks about how much Acid he did 6:28 Talks about accidentally taking LSD in the studio 7:20 Asks him about the other Beatles taking LSD 8:41 Talks about destroying his ego, and calls Leary "Rubbish" If you want to support the channel you can buy me a coffee, thanks in advance if you do. https://www.buymeacoffee.com/nancyrowinE