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PETER GREENPeter Green, founder, hit songwriter and guitarist of Fleetwood Mac, helped sell more records in one year in the late 1960s than the Beatles and the Rolling Stones combined in that same year. However, after taking LSD, Green became withdrawn and lost interest in his music. Within four years, he was receiving legally enforced psychiatric treatment and was subjected to heavy psychiatric drugs and electroshock. Green stated: "I didn’t want [ECT]; I was scared of it. They take your mind away from you….There were some pretty scary people there….They gave me tranquilizers….It was a struggle just to stay awake. You don’t know what you are doing. You don’t feel alive." However, Green survived and resumed public performance—testimony to the power of the artistic spirit. |
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