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TIL that when asked what caused Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band, Paul McCartney replied “In one word, George, drugs. Pot.” When the interviewer said “but you weren’t on it all the time” McCartney replied: “Yes, we were. Sgt. Pepper was a drug album.”

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