The man who turned on the Beatles finally revealed

"The dentist who introduced John Lennon and George Harrison to LSD in 1965 has always been an anonymous figure. In the Beatles Anthology time [sic] George referred to him only as 'the wicked dentist.' Now a book has been published that reveals the identity of the man who unwittingly helped to turn on the world.

"In The Gospel According to the Beatles, author Steve Turner reveals that the dentist was John Riley who had a practice on Harley Street and lived in a ground floor apartment in Strathearn Place near Bayswater Road. It was in this apartment that Riley slipped the hallucinogenic drug into the boys' coffees after a meal. They would never be the same again ..."
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Tagged: beatles, music, rock+music, entheogens, drugs