#i maintain the old guard isn't really that far from tinhats or any other fan

[mydaroga]

Beatles authors can truly be something. I know we all know this, but I'm looking at The Complete Beatles Songs by Steve Turner (it's been a fairly good companion in me getting my timeline fleshed out for my story) but I'm sitting here at "Got to Get You Into My Life" reading about how John claimed the song was about Paul's experience with LSD. Turner goes on to explain that Paul disagrees, but turns around and claims Paul is lying and John was right all along:

Paul has since confirmed that he was alluding to drugs but he (mistakenly) thought it was 'one I wrote when I had first been introduced to pot' ... However, Paul had been introduced to pot in New York on August 24, 1965, over 18 months before. It seems unlikely that he would have waited so long to pen a tribute. The almost certain truth is that it was, as John suspected, a song to LSD.

What? I'm not saying it can't be a song about LSD, or that Paul never obfuscates, and it's fair to supply your reasoning as to why John might be onto something. But clearly this man has no understanding of Paul's actual relationship to pot OR acid, if he's going to make a statement like this.

I really need to stop thinking I have no right to write about the Beatles or be embarrassed to show people what I have written.