A Beatles and Peter Sellers double bill.

During a 1968 promo shoot for Apple Records, Peter Sellers visited The Beatles in the studio and some impromptu drug talk ensued. Lennon reminds Sellers of the time “when I gave you that grass in Piccadilly.” Sellers response: “it really stoned me out of my mind.”

Listen for Yoko’s remark about “shooting as exercise,” a none too subtle reference to her and John’s heroin use.

The second video is Sellers performing ‘A Hard Day’s Night’ in the style of Laurence Olivier’s Richard the Third on the Granada TV special The Music of Lennon & McCartney. Sellers goofy take on the Beatles’ tune was actually released as a single and made the pop charts.

Thanks, Blastitude

Who among us has not delivered ‘A Hard Day’s Night’ in the style of Laurence Olivier’s Richard the Third?

But Sellers is the master!

Shooting is exercise is actually a reference to shooting with a gun, not drugs. This is 1968, Lennon was pre-occupied with guns and shooting while writing a few songs…  Happiness is a Warm Gun… Bungalow Bill… “hey, what did you kill, Bungalow Bill” etc.