Folk Music 📍

"QUESTION: As a journalist, it can be hard to interview someone with more than 50 years in the entertainment business, because there is nothing really original to ask. So, let me start by asking you what is the one question you are tired of being asked?"

"ANSWER: I am not sure I am tired of being asked about it, but I am tired of how many people start by thinking "Puff the Magic Dragon" is about drugs. It is not, and it never was. That all started with a guy at a magazine that wrote about songs that had hidden drug references or had some subtext message that was about drugs or advocated for drug use. He had "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds" on there, which is just absurd. He mentioned "Mr. Tambourine Man," which is about drugs, but it was not hidden, it was a direct reference. His third song he listed was "Puff the Magic Dragon," which is insane and stupid. I asked him once about it and he basically said he was just looking for a third and thought, “maybe this will work.”