The Beatles (Pt. 1): Stoned with Dylan, Dosed with Acid, Outrunning Knife Wielding Maniac, and Driving the World to the Brink with Beatlemania
DISGRACELAND
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šļø 23 February 2021
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Summary
The Beatles caused fans to enter into manic states, literally. People died because of it. The band swallowed more pills than food in their early years. They took acid by accident and changed the course of popular music forever as a result. Aside from all the screaming fans and the drugs, beating at the heart of Beatlemania was always just “a great little band.” Listen to learn how the Beatles saved America from certain doom with some of the most exciting music ever made.
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| 0:00.0 | Disgraceland is a production of Double Elvis. |
| 0:11.8 | The stories about the Beatles are insane. |
| 0:15.6 | In their early years as a band, they swallowed more speed than food. |
| 0:20.0 | They inspired a generation and provoked insanity |
| 0:22.6 | driving one fan to slash a hotel made to pieces when she wouldn't disclose which rooms the band |
| 0:27.9 | were staying in. They pulled America, an entire country out of a deep state of mourning, and skyrocketed |
| 0:34.6 | youth culture into a new era. They tried marijuana for the first time with |
| 0:39.1 | none other than Bob Dylan. By accident, they were turned on by LSD, dosed with a drug that would |
| 0:45.0 | shape their musical creativity in world-changing ways. And through all the drugs and all of the |
| 0:51.1 | screams, they made great music, quite literally some of the greatest |
| 0:55.2 | music ever made, truly exciting rock and roll music. And that music you heard at the top of the |
| 1:01.3 | show, that wasn't great music. That was a preset loop from my Melotron called Umpa pantomime |
| 1:07.5 | MK2. I played you that loop because I can't afford the rights to love letters in the |
| 1:14.0 | sand by Pat Boone. And why would I play you that specific slice of heartbreak cheese could I afford it? |
| 1:21.8 | Because that was the number one song in America on July 6, 1957. |
| 1:30.9 | And that was the day that John Lennon and Paul McCartney met, |
| 1:34.5 | sparking a friendship that would change popular music forever. |
| 1:38.9 | On this, part one of a special two-part episode, |
| 1:42.4 | pep pills, dosing dentists, violin-obsessed fans, |
| 1:45.1 | and four lads who shook the world with excitement, |
| 1:46.1 | the Beatles. |
| 2:17.7 | I'm Jake Brenwin, and Duke. songwriter Paul McCartney will be regarded as one of the greatest composers of all time. |
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