When the Beatles admitted to drugging their engineer and producer

Jan 08, 2026

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In the new Disney+ documentary series “The Beatles Anthology,” a 1991 interview is presented in which the then-surviving Beatles describe secretly spiking the tea served to engineer Geoff Emerick and producer George Martin with “uppers” in order to get them to do studio work later into the night.

In Episode 9, George Harrison described how Emerick and Ma…

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