“My little self missed out on a lot of stuff, but I certainly knew the Beatles and I knew about their transition from being Liverpool kids to being fairly sophisticated in the, shall we say, Western ways of the culture we were then. “I was already well into the Beatles, but I never took drugs so there’s a distance between a lot of what people wrote and did in those years and my pristine little self,” the newly minted Rock and Roll Hall of Famer explains.

Pepper’s because of her own inexperience with substances. Similarly, Joan Baez didn’t connect as deeply with Sgt.

It’s the thing that made everybody want to take acid.” There are great things about it, but to me it’s more of a culture artifact than anything. Pepper’s. “I didn’t take any drugs in those days,” he recalls, “but everybody I knew said, ‘Oh, you’ve got to get high and listen to this’ or ‘You’ve got to drop acid and listen to this,’ so I felt there was something I wasn’t getting out of the record because I wasn’t taking drugs. But he soon came to learn that tunefulness wasn’t necessarily the best way to judge Sgt. It didn’t seem to me as taut as some of their previous records,” Rundgren notes. “I thought there was some up and down stuff on it. Pepper' 50th-Anniversary Remix And Bringing…

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