After the introspective era more drugs came into play that turned into the psychedelic era from 1967 to 1968. This era brought us the Sgt. Pepper 's Lonely Hearts Club Band album, the Magical Mystery Tour album, and The White album. These songs were more about giving the world a message about peace and loving one another and also about protesting the Vietnamese war that is expressed in the song “Revolution.” John Lennon met Yoko Ono in 1966 and decided he was going to leave his wife Cynthia and son Julian for Yoko.
The first album of the psychedelic era was Sgt. Pepper 's Lonely Hearts Club Band was a step in a different direction for The Beatles. As Hunter Davies states in The Beatles Lyrics “They seemed to be getting better, or at least different, moving on, or at least moving sideways, and of course sometimes deliberately backwards, but Sgt. Pepper turned out to be a multi-media, multi-level giant leap forward” (Lyrics 189). The cover was the first to have all the songs lyrics printed on the back so everyone knew precisely what they were saying. …show more content…
Lysergic acid diethylamide also know as LSD is considered an hallucinogen because it can catalyze intense spiritual experiences, during which users may feel they have come into contact with a greater spiritual or cosmic order. Users claim to experience lucid sensations where they have "out of body" experiences and this was a common drug for people to experiment with during that time. The Beatles have denied the rumors that “Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds” is about tripping on acid they have said it was inspired by a drawing by John’s son Julian. Although most of the lyrics make absolutely no sense “Picture yourself in a boat on a river with tangerine trees and marmalade skies somebody calls you, you answer quite slowly a girl with kaleidoscope eyes” there is no ultimate meaning to this
The first album of the psychedelic era was Sgt. Pepper 's Lonely Hearts Club Band was a step in a different direction for The Beatles. As Hunter Davies states in The Beatles Lyrics “They seemed to be getting better, or at least different, moving on, or at least moving sideways, and of course sometimes deliberately backwards, but Sgt. Pepper turned out to be a multi-media, multi-level giant leap forward” (Lyrics 189). The cover was the first to have all the songs lyrics printed on the back so everyone knew precisely what they were saying. …show more content…
Lysergic acid diethylamide also know as LSD is considered an hallucinogen because it can catalyze intense spiritual experiences, during which users may feel they have come into contact with a greater spiritual or cosmic order. Users claim to experience lucid sensations where they have "out of body" experiences and this was a common drug for people to experiment with during that time. The Beatles have denied the rumors that “Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds” is about tripping on acid they have said it was inspired by a drawing by John’s son Julian. Although most of the lyrics make absolutely no sense “Picture yourself in a boat on a river with tangerine trees and marmalade skies somebody calls you, you answer quite slowly a girl with kaleidoscope eyes” there is no ultimate meaning to this