Dirty Hippies by Scott Paulsen6/12/2023 ![]() ![]() His bibliography and footnotes are extensive and impressive, making the reader aware that this is not just another book to get his share of the Beatles’ pie! The author starts with the story that I had never heard of in all my reading, that occurred at the early days of the Fab Fours history when they were introduced to ingesting the Benzedrine strip inside a nasal inhaler in June 1960 by Royston Ellis. ![]() Riding So High – The Beatles and Drugs is his first book. ![]() Formerly a senior online producer at the BBC, he is a music lover and founder of the Beatles Bible website (quite as popular as Jesus…”). Joe Goodden is a journalist, blogger and paperback writer living in south Wales. Despite all this, I tried to go into this book with an open mind and will try to write the fairest review I can. I know it happened because between their interviews, busts and lyrics, there really is no way to not know. This time the author himself posted about it, so there was no expectations on my part from a glowing reader’s review.Īs most of you regular readers may know by now, I’m not a fan of the Beatles’ drug use. Riding So High: The Beatles and Drugs by Joe Gooddenis another book I came across on the Facebook group ‘Beatles Book Collectors’. ![]()
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