George Harrison on Drug Use and The Rock Star Lifestyle | The Dick Cavett Show

television in America isn't as mature as it is in England in England yeah I watch TV in America to tell you the truth it's such a load of rubbish not the Dick Cavett show oh I wondered this drives you crazy you know that the commercials you just get into something on that sorry an hour lay another word from and another word from and in the end you know they've just put commercials on all the time there you have commercials to over and you're saying yeah but it's really done good you know it's really done good they show maybe if it's a 30 minute show they'll have the commercial at the beginning then the shells start and after 15 minutes or so they'll it land and they say end of part 1 ding and then it goes into the kershaw and then the commercials end and he says part 2 here it just goes ding ding ding from warning to the next you don't know if it's a commercial or if it's the show let's say there are a lot of commercials I'll give you there I have a serious question I would ask you and have a feeling we're gonna get R interrupted before I get to but I meant to get into this with John and with you have you ever seen Monty Python's Flying Circus yes yes good you want to get that on in America it's really I sort of trying to get some of that into and showing it showing get some there wasn't definite it's really good yeah Linnea can I get to my serious question you have this tremendous influence and you oh you had when you were together you had this gigantic influence on the young people right and everybody knows that the Beatles went through a drug phase did it ever occur to you or did you have some think of it this way that the fact that this was known and the fact that you were the Beatles might have caused thousands of kids to go into drug problems that might not have otherwise well no no Lenny mess first of all when we took the notorious wonder drug LSD yeah it was we didn't know we were having it John and I had they had this drug and it was given we were having dinner with our dentist and he put it in our coffee and never told us now we'd never have we never heard of it I mean it's a good job we hadn't heard of it because there's been so much paranoia created around the drug the people now if they take it they're already on a bad trip before they start whereas for us we didn't know anything we were so naive and so we had it and we went out to a club and it was incredible it was really incredible so a couple of years later Paul had the drug too and the TV people in England came and they said so you've had this one too drug LSD how do you say no look it's you know the question you asked me about the responsibility for everybody else Paul said to the TV people look I'm not saying if I had the drug it's it's you if you're gonna ask me if I've had it I'm gonna say yes because I've had it I'm gonna I'm not gonna lie so he said they said well have you add LSD and before they asked he said it's your responsibility because if you're gonna ask me and I'm gonna say yes and you're gonna put it on the TV saying hey yes we've had LSD so really it was there that was their fault so they asked the question Paul said yes and then they put it on and said old they've had LSD and then the world goes crazy yeah I just wondered if here you know if you have to stop and think about you can use the word responsibility which is soy sense so hokey when your school teacher says you have a tremendous responsibility but did you I said did you ever take that kind of thing seriously and think you know we got to watch ourselves because if we do this other people will be there yeah we always had to watch ourselves because if we weren't watching ourselves there was somebody else out there who was and there was always reporters who would follow us around on tour and always tried breaking into our room catching us doing something he knows something maybe that we shouldn't have been doing and the whole thing is that people want other people to do nasty things because they feed at it and then they write how they're doing nasty things it's like in a newspaper in England I met David Frost the other day can I say David Frost or do you bleep it out what okay I bumped into him in the hotel and he said here are two really bring you down as a copy of the news of the world he just come from England he built this paper and this big story on the front saying it's the scam nursery yeah yeah but it's big story saying about this group called the marmalade how they had orgies with the teenage fans and all this sort of thing but the whole idea of these reports is going out for months and months scraping around you know lifting up the pavement trying to see what rubbish there is to write about and then they write about it as if the Saints and as if everybody isn't doing it yeah yeah so I don't know where the responsibility I mean maybe you just should stay at home and never say anything that's definitely the easiest well why do people do things just because female famous people do them is another question I've never been able to figure out exactly anyway well I'll make the show here's a happy thought for the holidays from singer doesn't me ask you one other thing George because it's a do you have any thoughts on on why hard drugs and rock stars I have become synonymous I mean you can see why if you had a life like Bessie Smith had or Billie Holiday or something like that whatever they were what they went through if I were them I suppose I would take anything that was away level but I mean most of people in rock heaven had that dismal grinding horrible kind of life that is it in any way a way of emulating those other people who who were well liked those there's a lot of them you know a lot of pop people go through a hell of a lot you know just say in one year they go they see so much and they get they go through yourself so many different things that they either just want to get high I mean basically it starts with people who just want to get high you know like people drink I mean that's a big problem people get have a drink like I suppose after the show maybe you have a drink just to get a little high so musicians you know either drink a little bit or maybe they smoke a bit none then they want to get a bit high now they and the sort of really looking for some link and it's the same with them all those Bessie Smith's and all those people because the world is such a hard place to try and make it in so I mean it's it they're all just like buffers all those drugs and things and I suppose if they get on top of you you know they get next to you and then you can't stop it I don't know the hard things so that's what I wonder like heroin I mean when that certainly hardly anybody's been through anything like those people I mentioned like Judy holidays hail Billie Holiday's life so and that a life like that I can see a the really violent hard drugs I suppose because anything might be better than what they're going through but unless you're to the point where you can say I am just into the fires of hell all day you know they're not quite the the ones who've killed themselves your your colleagues what white heroine that seems to be the big one yeah I don't I'm really unqualified to talk about heroine because I've never taken it and I really don't intend to is you know I'm sure it's just uh it's probably just the best high you know that's what it's down to it's the one that gets them the highest the quickest but it just happens to kill you faster as well I mean they all sort of kill you in one way or another and there's very few people who seem to be able to experience something like heroin and then get away from it because it just gets in the system and they've become dependent on it I don't know it's sad you know it's really sad because they're all looking for some deep love or something like that and that they miss it you know it's much better to try and not take any drugs you know if you can get straight ireally straight then in a way it's much higher I mean I'm not really qualified to talk about that either I mean I'm sorry well I stood in the middle you know Indian music and drugs don't mix as I understand it no there's been a big yeah I said yeah there was a problem you know the indie music really got popular during that 66-67 you know all the psychedelic period and think from that most people have started to associate it with drugs because the hippies apart from the classical people who used to go and watch the music anyway like the hippy people at that time were the ones who caught on to it new music and it just happens the most of them were you know I smoking pot or something and since then you know I don't know maybe Ravi will be able to explain how the two got caught up together but it's really a problem it's a problem for Ravi because he's you know trying to do this spend years and years of real discipline life in order to play this music and then people think oh you know he must must have taken don't to play that good you know and it's really it's it's it's a terrible thing you know and somebody's it's completely the opposite the audience are really misunderstanding what the whole things are bad we only get to talk about that yeah if we don't go now [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music]

Channel: The Dick Cavett Show

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Length: 10min 15sec (615 seconds)

Published: Mon Aug 19 2019

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[u/FartIntoMyButt]

you can really feel george radiating a calm peace here, and he seems to slow cavett's pace down too

[u/drugabusername]

This was great