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The Beatles’ movie Help! featured crude racial stereotypes – but it shouldn’t be hidden away

I sometimes think that my teenage fascination with the Beatles is what drew me to becoming a professional historian. Piecing together what I could find out about them in the years before the internet was a sort of gateway to the history of Britain and the world in the decade…

The Conversation

“Some of the police were dealing dope! They’re knocking at the door and we stop rolling joints, but the promoter says, ‘They have marijuana for us!’” When America fell in love with an eccentric British prog band

A change of line-up, a change of style and Timothy Leary’s plans for a concert suspended in the air helped made their 1974 album a classic

Louder

"The 'lost chord' they were searching for may have been a power chord": The Moody Blues attain peak psychedelic whimsy on In Search Of The Lost Chord

Join the Moody Blues for a psychedelic voyage through mysticism, melody, and late-60s cosmic curiosity

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Terence McKenna, the Would-Be Jesus of Psychedelics

A new biography explores the life and ideas of the man who founded the first primitive religion of the future.

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Lindy-Hopping Nazis and Golems With Guns: The Return of Thomas Pynchon

In Shadow Ticket, characters are forever finding refuge in the folds of the map.

Reason

"I've got blisters on my fingers!" 12 songs that prove The Beatles really rocked

When The Beatles cranked up the guitars, they really cranked up the guitars

Louder

Susannah Cahalan on the Psychedelic Pioneer Rosemary Woodruff Leary

"She was a behind-the-scenes character who was propping up [Timothy] Leary," says the author of The Acid Queen.

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“It’s one of George's best songs. His mind is clear and his music is clear”: The genius of the profound 1967 Beatles song that John Lennon held up as George’s greatest

The opening to Sgt Pepper’s second side underlined just how boundless the Beatles’ musical scope had become

MusicRadar

“When we get together it opens up a portal. It’s mapping out the architecture of another dimension!” Steve Davis staged a theft to help The Utopia Strong make second album International Treasure

Prog’s unlikeliest trio, featuring Kabus Torabi and Michael J York alongside the snooker star, raised their game with the 2022 release. By then they were certain more would follow, even though they couldn’t explain what they actually do

Louder

How LSD Helped Launch a Radical Libertarian Counterculture

Drug Smuggler. Fugitive. Icon. Meet The Acid Queen.

Reason

Deluxe nine-disc box set of Hawkwind's Hall Of The Mountain Grill to be released in August

Hawkwind's 1974 album Hall Of The Mountain Grill has been remastered and will be reissued in August

Louder

The Acid Queen by Susannah Cahalan review – Timothy Leary’s right hand woman

A key a protagonist of the psychedelic counterculture, Rosemary Woodruff lived a life every bit as fascinating as her husband’s

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“We could see John begin smiling. At the end of the first verse, he gave an exuberant thumbs-up and McCartney and Harrison began slapping each other on the back”: How one Beatles track spawned a recording technique revolution

Originally called ’The Void’, the groundbreaking song found the Fab Four exploring higher planes of consciousness - and leaning on the studio more than ever before

MusicRadar

The ultra-rich want to escape. Good idea

Billionaires are building luxury getaways to hide from civilization’s collapse. Cool. We’re better off without them

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Good Ange is now Bad Postecoglou and caught in the Premier League doom spiral

Irritable and resentful, the Spurs manager is not unique in being unnerved by a remorseless league where every game is a test

The Conversation

Cacti are surprisingly fragile – and five other intriguing facts about these spiky wonders

Few plant families are as iconic as the resilient, spiky cactus, thriving in the driest deserts and as well as decorating our offices and homes. Their success in both environments comes down to extreme adaptations for surviving with little water – whether braving the brutal sun or enduring weeks of…

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Richard Nixon Privately Admitted Marijuana Was 'Not Particularly Dangerous'

The recordings demonstrate yet again that drug warriors always knew marijuana wasn't that bad—they just didn't care.

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Internet Archive preserves and releases 1980s PC radio show that interviewed legends including Douglas Adams, Bill Gates, Timothy Leary, and Jack Tramiel

The Famous Computer Cafe aired in California in the early 1980s.

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Congress 'Can Regulate Virtually Anything'

How legislators learned to stop worrying about the constitutionality of federal drug and gun laws by abusing the Commerce Clause

Metal Hammer

"I’ve died three times through my own self-abuse." From helping shape industrial metal to hanging up on Stanley Kubrick and being Timothy Leary's drug guinea pig, Ministry's Al Jourgensen reflects on 40 years of madness and music

Ministry might be looking to bow out after their next album, but they leave behind one of metal's most colourful and event-filled legacies. We asked frontman Al Jourgensen to look back on his life

Reason

Review: Tripping on Utopia Complicates the History of Psychedelics

Mind-altering drugs have long been seen as tools for both liberation and control.

Salon

Can psychedelics treat narcissism?

Psychedelics have a reputation for humbling people, but "hallucinogenic elitism" is also common. What gives?

The Guardian - US

‘Long-lost best friends’: the longevity movement finds psychedelics

The mental-health benefits of psychedelics are a draw for a growing community of people committed to reversing ageing

Reason

The Psychedelic Renaissance Is Here

Inside the gathering of the scientists, psychonauts, capitalists, and comedians committed to mainstreaming psychedelics without repeating the errors of the 1960s.

Louder

“We didn’t arrive on a magic carpet. He was a little heartbroken over that… his followers gathered outside and they were close to stoning us”: the Moody Blues’ weirdest fans

During prog’s earliest days, their 1968 US tour saw them treated like messiahs, aliens and harbingers of doom - and left them terrified

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