![]() But when people hear this they’ll really stop and think about what it’s all about!” Paul returned and picked up the conversation where we’d left off. I sat by the French windows enjoying a cup of tea. In one corner a BBC color-TV monitor was mistimed to give a flickering abstract pattern two Rene Magritte paintings glowed on the wall in the pale afternoon winter sun and Martha, Paul’s Old English sheepdog, lay content in front of a crackling log fire. “The Return of the Son of Monster Magnet,” the last track on the Mothers of Invention’s Freak Out album, came to an end and Paul McCartney strolled across his huge living room to take the record off. In the following behind-the-scenes account published in the October, 1979 issue of High Times, he tells you what it was like to be there. Miles, then the editor of International Times, London’s first underground newspaper, and subsequently the editor of London’s Time Out magazine, went to the recording sessions at the invitation of Paul McCartney. The album, which sold one and a half million copies in the first two weeks following its US release on June 2, 1967, became an electronic bible for the emerging drug generation. ![]() Between November 1966 and March 1967 the Beatles recorded Sergeant Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band at the Abbey Road studios. ![]()
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