Riding So High: The Beatles and Drugs - Softcover

Goodden, Joe

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1999803302 ISBN 13: 9781999803308

Publisher: Pepper & Pearl, 2017

Synopsis

‘Who gave the drugs to the Beatles? I didn’t invent those things. I bought it from someone who got it from somebody. We never invented the stuff.’ – John Lennon

Riding So High charts the Beatles’ extraordinary odyssey from teenage drinking and pill-popping, to cannabis, LSD, the psychedelic Summer of Love and the darkness beyond.

Drugs were central to the Beatles’ story from the beginning. The acid, pills and powders helped form bonds, provided escape from the chaos of Beatlemania, and inspired colossal leaps in songwriting and recording. But they also led to break-ups, breakdowns, drug busts and prison.

The only full-length study of the Beatles and drugs, Riding So High tells of getting stoned, kaleidoscope eyes, excess, loss and redemption, with a far-out cast including speeding Beatniks, a rogue dentist, a script-happy aristocratic doctor, corrupt police officers and Hollywood Vampires. ‘The deeper you go, the higher you fly...’

‘An essential new work in Beatles historiography.’ – Erin Torkelson Weber, author of The Beatles and the Historians

About this title

About the Author:

Joe Goodden is a journalist, blogger and paperback writer living in south Wales. Formerly a senior online producer at the BBC, he is a music lover and founder of the Beatles Bible website (www.beatlesbible.com – "Not quite as popular as Jesus..."). Riding So High – The Beatles and Drugs is his first book.

About this edition

• Publisher: Pepper & Pearl
• Publication date: 2017
• ISBN 10: 1999803302
• ISBN 13: 9781999803308
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 368