The Beatles on drugs

I came across this clip recently, which claims to be excised material from a Disney documentary about the Beatles that somehow managed to stay in the show when it was aired in Japan. Although the accounts of the Beatles' drug use are legend, it's interesting to hear (three of) them describing it in the own words, with the benefit of years of perspective.

Of course, wouldn't you know it, it wasn't just psychedelics that the boys wound up dabbling with. On a recent episode of a British television program (or I guess "programme", eh?), Yoko Ono described how an unscrupulous heroin dealer kept her and John Lennon from overdosing:

Because the dealer mixed baby powder with the drug to maximise his profits, she said, it meant the couple were exposed to lower concentrations than many of their contemporaries.

She said the combination of the pair's fear of needles and the diluted nature of the drugs they were taken meant they had been able to kick the habit of heroin, which she described as "the big one".

"Luckily we never injected because both of us were totally scared about needles. So that probably saved us and the other thing that saved us was our connection was not very good.

"But that saved us actually."