The Rise and Fall Of the Psychedlic Era (The Beatles and Pink Floyd)

       A Revolutionary Era indeed! Psychedelic is defined as the occurrence of distortions of perception, altered states of awareness in the Human Brain under the influence Of Psychedelic drugs! The Psychedelic influence was brought in during the 1960s-1990s.

       Its was during this period a drug called LSD was invented.LSD was first synthesized on November 16, 1938 by  Albert Hofmann. However, it was a few years before Hofmann realized what he had invented.  Lysergic Acid Diethylamide is a psychoactive hallucinogenic drug. The Altered Perception of the human brain gave the human mind the ability to Hallucinate and touch light, colour and sound, thus leading to the birth of Psychedelic Rock!

     The Legendary Rock bands which were Psychedelically oriented came into existance at the early 60s!A few of them are ‘The Jefferson Airplanes,’ ’The Velvet Underground,’ ‘The Doors,’ ‘Jimi Hendrix,’ ‘Janis Joplin,’ ‘Pink Floyd’ and ‘The Beatles.’

     The Unforgettable song ‘Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds’ is a song written primarily by John Lennon and credited to Lennon/McCartney for ‘The Beatles.’ The album became the biggest selling album of the 1960s and remains today the biggest selling studio album in countries as far as the UK and India. The Beatles were accused of intentional of the first letter of each of the title's nouns was LSD. They were Known for their Drug-related songs such as ‘Day Tripper,’ ‘That’s one about Acid’ and many more.

            

    While other bands either broke up or headed in other directions, Pink Floyd stayed true to their ambient sound waves till this day. They never went country. They never did a blues album. No folk revival. No jazz-rock. Just epic space rock with lots of creepy sound effects and lots of songs about their original leader, Syd Barrett, going insane from taking too much acid. And now we learn that their keyboardist, Richard Wright, has passed. RIP.

      A few of their well-known songs are ‘Hey You,’ ‘Shine on you Crazy Diamond,’ ‘Wish you were here,’ ‘Another Brick in the Wall,’ ‘Comfortably Numb.’ After Syd Barret’s death, David Gilmour was the leader of the Band and he made magic on stage. His outrageous guitar solo was known to be one of the best Psychedelic guitar solos in the history of Psychedelics.

     LSD was first synthesized by Albert Hofmann in 1938

Lysergic acid diethylamide(LSD) is one of the psychedelic drug which is well known for its psychological effects which can include altered thinking processes, closed and open eye visuals, synaesthesia, an altered sense of time and spiritual experiences .These spiritual influences was the nest of all psychedelic experiences in the world of Rock!

           When the world began to realise that LSD was a great threat to human brain and life itself,it was banned.Psychedelic Rock declined simultaneously!And thus the Great "Psychelic Era" was Diminished!

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STATUTORY WARNING:LSD IS INJURIOUS TO HEALTH

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