Not printed in England until 1967. The first few issues didn’t seem to get distributed very far from W11. IT was earlier, but had poor distribution too. Both were very hard to read, no matter what state one was in.

http://stabbers.truth.posiweb.net/stabbers/html/discography/singles.htm

And as far as knowledge of psychedelia in Britain at the time goes, a quick thumb through back issues of “Oz” should make that quite evident.

But surely the ‘not about LSD’ line is an urban urban-myth myth? Debunking is just as seductive (and as often perverse) as fabulation.

Ahistoricality @27 are you invoking a technical distinction between parody and satire by which parody by definition involves something present or past only?

I think that’s probably about right in substance – though it’s an unintuitive way of putting it. Perhaps better: no-one can intentionally parody something with which they have no causal interaction. Add a collateral hypothesis of unidirectional causation and authorial intention and you have the derived temporal thesis. (That’s ‘intuitive’ in the analytic philosopher’s sense, of course.)

My 5-year old daughter is shaping up to be a Peter Cook/Dudley Moore fan.

John, if I can say that when/if I have kids I’ll be a proud man indeed.

But, but, what if she stumbles on Derek and Clive? I foresee trauma.

Does it? There are all kinds of satires based on “what would happen if” absurdities that never actually come to pass. Aristophanes’ Lysistrata or Ecclesiazusae, for example. Or are you invoking a technical distinction between parody and satire by which parody by definition involves something present or past only?

That material was written by Derek Taylor. The first try at recording “Eight Miles High” was in December 1965. The lyrics really are all about a plane trip and how wet & grey Liverpool is.

The song was subject to a U.S. radio ban shortly after its release, due to perceived drug connotations in its lyrics. The band strenuously denied these allegations at the time, but in later years both Clark and Crosby admitted that the song was at least partly inspired by their own drug use.