It is feared that The Beatles were abused by their drug-addicted dentist
A shocking claim has emerged that The Beatles may have been abused by their drug-addicted dentist.
November 18, 2024, published at 10:18 am ET
The Beatles It is feared they have been repeatedly abused by their creepy, drug-loving celebrity dentist.
RadarOnline.com Harley Street’s dental technician can reveal to the stars John Riley was hired to fix the Fab Four’s crooked grinders when they were on the brink of global stardom.
It is now suspected that Riley, while flashing them a beaming smile, secretly sexually assaulted rising Beatles icons Paul McCartney, John Lennon, Ringo Starr And John Lennon.
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It is feared that The Beatles were repeatedly abused by their famous dentist.
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The stunning claim was made in a critically acclaimed and authoritative book about the group called One Two Three Four: The Beatles In Time by Craig Brown.
It came out in 2020, but sections about the dentist have resurfaced on fan blogs as they unravel The Beatles’ history ahead of the 65th anniversary of the band’s founding next year.
In an interview with the book’s author, the late Beatles guitarist George HarrisonPattie Boyd, the woman’s ex-wife, shared her fears that Riley was a deranged pervert.
Boyd, 80, says Riley – whose father was a Metropolitan Police officer – used to knock out the musicians in his dentist’s chair, no matter how minor the procedure.
The former model added that Riley Harrison once dosed so heavily with a sedative in his chair that he was forced to wake the guitarist by punching him in the face.
Boyd was furious with the dentist: ‘Whatever he would put in our mouths, he would give us intravenous Valium.
“All Beatles went to him and we assumed this had happened – no one questioned it.
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Pattie Boyd said of the dentist, “All the Beatles went to see him and we just assumed this happened – no one questioned it.”
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‘We fell into a deep sleep and woke up not knowing what he had done.
“I once saw him try to revive George by punching him in the face.”
Pattie shared her suspicions that Riley was a molester, adding: “It was sinister – he could have done anything to us while we were away.”
Craig Brown’s book – hailed as the definitive history of the record-breaking band – reveals that Riley Harrison saw the most out of all the Beatles, as his teeth looked the worst in the days when the group began to achieve major success after playing stone club The Cavern Club in their native Liverpool.
It adds that Harrison struck up such a friendship with his suspected assailant that he was instrumental in inviting the dentist on holiday with The Beatles.
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Brown’s book notes that Harrison struck up such a friendship with his suspected assailant and was instrumental in inviting the dentist on holiday with The Beatles.
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Brown added: “Even the Beatles need dentists. To become The Fab Four, their teeth needed as many adjustments as their hair and clothes, maybe more.
‘John Riley was the son of a prominent South London police officer. He had studied cosmetic dentistry at Northwestern University dental school in Chicago before setting up a practice in Harley Street, London.
“It is said that he possessed a quality that is rare and perhaps dangerous in a dentist: charisma.
“He was the kind of man who, when he walked in the room, you felt his presence before you saw him,” one of his clients noted.
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By the early 1960s, Riley is said to have become “one of the most fashionable dentists in the city, a sought-after figure in show business and the arts, including all four Beatles.”
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“By the early 1960s he had become one of the most fashionable dentists in the city, a sought-after figure in show business and the arts, including all four Beatles.
“George’s teeth required particular attention; photos from the Cavern era show them to be irregular and rickety.
During the latter part of 1963 and 1964, he became such a frequent visitor to Riley’s clinic that the two men struck up a friendship of sorts, sometimes going out together.
“In February 1965, the Beatles even invited Riley to the Bahamas to keep them company while they were filming Staff!“
Brown added that Boyd – who was also worked on by Riley – “never felt completely comfortable in his presence – especially when he was lying back in his dental chair with her mouth wide open”.
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Boyd, whom Riley also worked on, “never felt completely comfortable in his presence.”
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He added chillingly: ‘Pattie wondered if he might have been abusive.’
Riley – who died in a car crash in Ireland in 1986 – was previously dubbed The Beatles’ “bad dentist” as he infamously gave John Lennon, George Harrison and their partners acid at a dinner party without their knowledge.
Harrison, who died of lung cancer in 2001 at the age of 58, gave Riley the sinister nickname “bad dentist” after the drug incident, but the guitarist refused to mention him in interviews.
He revealed that he later suspected that the dentist had drugged them because he wanted to “get something going” and fantasized that the drugs would lead to a “big gang bang” in which “he was going to fuck everyone – I really think that was his thing was’. motive”.
Boyd says in Brown’s book about The Beatles that Riley – whose other clients included the comedian Dudley Moore – gave them a super-strong dose of LSD in their after-dinner coffee after a dinner at his home.
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Riley’s other clients included comedian Dudley Moore.
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Brown adds in his book: “In April 1965, Riley and his girlfriend Cyndy, whose job it was to hire the bunny girls for the Playboy Club, invited John Lennon and his wife Cynthia, along with George and Pattie, to dinner at his house in Bayswater in April 1965.
“We had a delicious meal and plenty to drink,” Pattie remembers.
As the dinner came to an end, George and Pattie got up to leave and explained that they planned to see Klaus Voorman and his new back play at the Pickwick Club, just off Leicester Square.
“As Pattie remembers it, Cyndy then said, ‘You haven’t had coffee yet. I made it – and it’s delicious.’
“So they sat down and drank their coffee. Then John made another attempt to leave, explaining that Klaus had to leave soon.
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In April 1965, Riley and his girlfriend Cyndy, whose job was to hire the bunny girls for the Playboy Club, invited Lennon and his wife Cynthia to dinner at the dentist’s office in Bayswater.
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“You can’t leave,” John Riley said. “What are you talking about?” “You just took LSD.”
“‘No, we don’t.’ ‘Yes, it was in the coffee.'”
Boyd said Lennon then shouted at Riley, “How dare you do this to us!”
Brown said the LSD hit Riley, Cynthia, Harrison, Boyd and their sneaky host Cyndy Bury “like big waves.”
Cyndy started screaming, feeling like the room was sinking like a ship, and Boyd said to Brown, “I was wondering if the dentist, who hadn’t had coffee, had given it to us in the hope that the evening would turn into a orgy would end.”
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Boyd said, “People kept recognizing George and coming toward him and moving in and out of focus, then looking like animals.”
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Harrison, Boyd, Lennon and Cynthia fled in Boyd’s Mini after refusing Riley’s offer to take them home when they insisted on leaving.
They took refuge in the Pickwick Club in London, but became convinced that at a small red light there was a raging fire.
Riley followed them to the club and Pattie and the others started seeing visions of him as a pig.
Boyd added: “People stayed recognize George and came over. They moved in and out of focus and then looked like animals.”
The foursome moved on to the Ad Lib club on Leicester Place, where they met Mick JaggerMarianne Faithfull and Ringo Starr.
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The Fab Four encountered Mick Jagger when they were ‘enriched’ by Riley.
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Boyd said: “John told them we had been enriched. The effect of the medicine became stronger and stronger, and we were all hysterical and crazy. When we sat down, the table got longer.”
It took eight hours for the LSD to wear off, and Cynthia told the others that she sat terrified all night because of her hallucinations of moving walls and talking plants, with people who looked like ghosts floating before her eyes.
Brown added: “George and Pattie have promised never to visit Riley again. No one wants a hip dentist, any more than they want a brain surgeon with butterfingers.’
But both Harrison and Lennon soon moved on to trying LSD again – with Lennon’s obsession with the hallucinogen helping to drive a wedge between him and Cynthia – who tried the drug only twice after Riley spiked them with it.
McCartney and Starr then had their first LSD experiences during the group was on tour in 1965.
It is said that Lennon and Harrison’s experience with Riley inspired songs on the album Revolver about tripping.
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McCartney and Starr had their first LSD experiences while the group was on tour in 1965.
It also spawned the surrealist lyrics of Staff!a song that went to number 1 in the British charts in September 1965 Lucy in the heaven of diamonds.
Are texts included the line “Now I find I’ve changed my mind, opened the doors” – referencing counterculture hero Aldous Huxley’s LSD-inspired book Doors of perception.
Riley’s was first mentioned in the book as The Beatles’ “bad dentist.” The Fab Four: The Gospel According to the Beatlesreleased in 2006 by author Steve Turner.
The book only mentioned the peak incident – with Brown’s tome being the first to hint that Riley was also a perverted molester.
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