John Lennon's Primal Scream
Gavin Martin, Uncut Legends, 2005
IN 1966 JOHN Lennon had approached Godhead status for a generation when he sounded the call to "relax turn off your mind and float down stream" in 'Tomorrow Never Knows'. Four years later the drugs didn't work anymore, the Godhead a broken stick, Lennon had sunk into deep depression.
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