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Timothy Francis Leary — psychologist, visionary, and fearless explorer of consciousness. From the hallowed halls of Harvard to the frontiers of the human mind, he dared to question the boundaries of perception and inspired generations to think, feel, and dream beyond the ordinary.
…with them? I guess I can say that now, yeah. Sure. So you turned them on to that stuff? I was in Montreal when John Yoko was there. I think it was 1968 or 69. John was not allowed in the country then because of some minor marijuana squabble over,…
…yeah, the five of us did that. I never got any residuals from it, but it was for a good cause. You, Tommy Smothers, Yoko, John, and your wife. That's right, yeah, five of us, yeah. You still married? Yep. Same woman? No, not the same woman. Well, her…
…got it, 20 years ago today. The original Summer of Love. You've probably made love to some famous people. Did you get on with Yoko in that room? No, no. I was married, very happily married. I saw Yoko two days ago. You know what Yoko did? Talk about…
…made love to some famous people. Did you get on with Yoko in that room? No, no. I was married, very happily married. I saw Yoko two days ago. You know what Yoko did? Talk about 60, 20 years ago. You saw Yoko? In Beverly Hills. She was at a Rodeo…
…you get on with Yoko in that room? No, no. I was married, very happily married. I saw Yoko two days ago. You know what Yoko did? Talk about 60, 20 years ago. You saw Yoko? In Beverly Hills. She was at a Rodeo Art Gallery. Uh-huh. What was she doing…
…was married, very happily married. I saw Yoko two days ago. You know what Yoko did? Talk about 60, 20 years ago. You saw Yoko? In Beverly Hills. She was at a Rodeo Art Gallery. Uh-huh. What was she doing there? She got this whole line of John's…
…I can sell. She's very wealthy. Very wealthy. Look at this. More John's crap. I saw that very quickly. Let me tell you what Yoko did. Yeah. She went over to Russia about a month ago with Norman Mailer and all those people. Right. Yeah. And she was the…
…little wine ceremony. And Mrs. Gorbachev said, isn't it too bad that John isn't here? And she was quoting... to Yoko from John's stuff, including Give Peace a Chance. Really? Here's the Gorbachev's entertaining... Now, that's the ripple. See, 20 years…
…get into Russia. To get into Russia. It's that Iron Curtain. It's going to take 30 years. Ten years from now, mark my words, Yoko will be in China, and they will be saying, isn't it wonderful? It was 30 years ago today. Yeah. Yeah. So think about…
…It was 30 years ago today. Yeah. Yeah. So think about that, Howard. Yeah, I'll think about it. I just want to think about Yoko going through our closets and auctioning off her giant stuff so she can get more money. I'm more into that. It's a garage…
…the cab for Jack. You got it. What's that? Oh, actually, that's the famous picture. Yep. That's the famous bed-in of John and Yoko. Oh, I see. And that's Rosemary, and that's me. And that's Tommy Smothers. And we invented the song, Give Us a Chance.…
…uh with uh Gauravijan Raisa now this has got to be true because I read it in Rolling Stone okay so I heard it also from Yoko she was there And Gorby said to her, isn't it a shame that John isn't here to sing Give Peace a Chance? About the time in…
…He was an egomaniacal show-off. Standing against Ronald Reagan, Leary received the ultimate stamp of approval from the counterculture. John and Yoko invited us to Montreal where they were staging a bed-in for peace. John asked how he could help, and we…
…And so it happened that Japanese businessmen are tougher and meaner than our armpits. There's a whole new breed in Japan. It's called Yoko Ken. And it's the same thing like in Prague. It's all over the world. The new breed, they all learned it, of…
…Tom, since this is my first time in New York in a long time, since the death of John Lennon, to pay tribute to John and Yoko. I think that in the 21st century, as we look back on the wild and woolly 20th century, I need a legend of John and Yoko…
…I think that in the 21st century, as we look back on the wild and woolly 20th century, I need a legend of John and Yoko It's going to stand out as something great. The fusion, you know, an oriental woman and a western man, an upper-class woman and a…
…to stand out as something great. The fusion, you know, an oriental woman and a western man, an upper-class woman and a working-class boy. Yoko was 50s, John was 60s. That linkage and partnership, my wife Barbara and I kind of hold it as a model. We try…
…to do it, too, and I think there are millions of people that are going to benefit from what they did. Hear, hear. Hello, Yoko. What would have happened to Timothy Leary if he never would have gotten involved with the culture of the 1960s. What do you…
…Chance. I don't know if you noticed it, but I was in that cut. I was there in Montreal in the bedroom when John and Yoko first cut this. That's me doing percussions on the guitar case. Well, that was a long time ago, maybe 18 years ago, and certainly…
…over you with their tanks. How well do you know John Lennon? People recall you from the bed-in scene in the hotel where John and Yoko stayed in bed for several days, but how well did you know him? He came to my center and we were in very close…
…very close touch. He actually sent me money when I was in exile in Switzerland, which was taken by the lawyers, but John and Yoko were always in close touch with me. John could not come in America. He had a minor marijuana beef in England, so Nixon…
…the country, I went up to Montreal, and I was there. Five of us sang the lyrics to Give Peace a Chance. There was John Yoko, my wife, and Tommy Smothers. Let's go. I got time in the hotel room in the Queen Elizabeth Hotel in Montreal. He said, to…