After a concert in New York,
The Beatles met
Bob Dylan for the first time at the Delmonico Hotel in Manhattan, where Dylan offered them marijuana and The Beatles tried it for the first time. Their mutual friend and writer Al Aronowitz was also present. Dylan was surprised that The Beatles had never tried marijuana because he had mistakenly interpreted the line “I can't hide” from “I Want to Hold Your Hand” as “I get high”.
Paul McCartney later said that after the experience he felt as though he were “thinking for the first time”.
