From expanding the minds of the free-thinking, to opening the doors to whole new philosophical and creative worlds, LSD has a lot to be responsible for. The hallucinogen-gobbling hippies of the '60s pathed this ground, seeing the space around them for the first time in limitless technicolour hues, as their drug-induced states shifted old ideas out for the new, countering and recalibrating culture.
Surging through brain waves, psychedelics soon found their way into sound, capturing this transcendental spirit through indulgent, spacious guitar riffs and tantric rhythms via bands such as The Beatles, The Doors, Jimi Hendrix, Pink Floyd and Jefferson Airplane, to name but a few.
