A guided LSD trip inspired the album, said Musgraves. The "Golden Hour" singer heard a melancholy Bach song during her trip and it led to the album's tragedy theme. Visit Insider's homepage for more ...

Diplo was “tripping” on LSD while appearing on CNN’s live New Year’s Eve broadcast Tuesday night. The DJ, 46, stunned the show’s co-hosts, Andy Cohen and Anderson Cooper, as he made the admission ...

During his appearance on CNN's New Year's Eve Live With Andy Cohen & Anderson Cooper, Diplo admitted that he was tripping on LSD on live TV. "What’s the most conventional place that you’ve done LSD?" ...

Diplo took a trip on New Year’s Eve, and we’re not just talking about the fact that he got in a chopper. The DJ admitted to tequila-drunk hosts Andy Cohen and Anderson Cooper that he was under the ...

In a recording session for the song “Getting Better,” Lennon took what he thought was an amphetamine to keep him energized. Soon, though, he realized he’d actually taken LSD. He told Martin he felt ...

LSD became a large part of The Beatles' creative process. But during the recording of this one song, it almost went too far.

Lysergic acid diethylamide-25 was synthesized in a Swiss laboratory in 1938. Early researchers called it “psychotomimetic” because it caused psychosis akin to schizophrenia. In the 1950s, the British ...

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I n the 1930s, the married anthropologists Gregory Bateson and Margaret Mead had seen themselves as scientists seeking to expand the accepted limits of “normal” human behavior, communication, and ...

Benjamin Breen, a young historian at UC Santa Cruz, has written a gripping new book that tells a remarkable story. “Tripping on Utopia: Margaret Mead, the Cold War, and the Troubled Birth of ...

Diplo says he ran a marathon while on LSD. Yes, you read that right. The 44-year-old DJ finished the Los Angeles Marathon last weekend in 3 hours and 35 minutes, he said recently on social media. In a ...

From time to time on Broadway, a show will open where characters seem to be having a really great time: Drinking excellent whisky in a bar, perhaps, or making fantastic love or chowing down on chicken ...