He began using any means that he thought might help. This era was marked by the Beatles visits to the Maharashi Mahesh Yogi, and the beginning of heavy drug use.

             As Lennon began to use LSD in greater quantities, the other Beatles began to have more influence in the production of the albums. Lennon began to become almost reclusive, and often delayed recording sessions. By the time the Beatles were recording Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band in 1967, Lennon would simply propose songs and themes, and McCartney was left to execute the plans. "Beatles songs were quite simple in the early days, you couldn't play around with them too much. But by 1967 we were building sound pictures and my [George Martin] role had changed-it was to interpret the pictures and determine how best to get them down on tape. Paul was fine-he could express what he wanted, the sounds he wanted to have. But John.would make whooshing sounds and try to describe what only he could only hear in his head, saying he wanted a song to 'sound like an orange'."(Bates 74) .

             As soon as the Sgt. Pepper album was underway, Paul McCartney came up with the idea of actually creating a band and performing the songs as that band. They took the idea from there and Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Heart's Club Band came into existence, never to see the outside of studio 2 at Abbey Road. They spent nearly a year recording various tracks for the album and John's state of mind was steadily declining. In 1969 when they issued Abbey Road it was no longer difficult to distinguish between the writings of Paul and John. John was producing works like, "I Want You (She's So Heavy)", which had the lyrics; "I want you so bad it's driving me mad/ She's so heavy"(Abbey Road). And the more musical and thoughtful work of McCartney, such as, "Golden Slumbers" which was almost a lullaby: .

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