Kenny Everett's wild acid trip with Beatles legend John Lennon which inspired hit song

star Kenny Everett revealed that he once thought he'd seen a helicopter landing on Weybridge Golf Course as he and of shared some LSD. The late TV and radio fave told the full story in honest detail in his 1982 autobiography, The Custard Stops At Hatfield.

Kenny met John as he came out of the Speakeasy club in London and, when he was asked by the singer the following day if he wanted to try LSD, he agreed. "Yes, John. Anything you say John. Tell me to turn into a picked gherkin and I'll do it," he recalled himself thinking. "So we popped this stuff in our mouths and ten minutes later I was wondering exactly what I was and where I was and why I was and was I why and who where was... "

He continued that the pair had walked up towards the golf course in the rain before seeing the helicopter landing, and then wondering whether it had actually been a bird.

After the intense trip, he was left completely "bewildered", explaining that "the experience is so far removed from anything your real brain can handle".

According to Kenny, John used his recollection of that trip to inspire The Beatles song 'I Am The Walrus' - and he referenced it in the lyrics about "getting a tan from standing in the English rain".

A couple of months after the "psychedelic round of golf", he joined him for the recording of the song at the Abbey Road studios, when John dramatically halted the song.

"He stopped and said to me: 'Reminds me of that day on the Weybridge golf course, eh Ken? You remember... the rain... get a tan from standing... oh, forget it!'"

While John had vivid memories of the experience, Kenny's were more hazy, as he admitted: "When the chemical has used up ten billion of your brain cells, it deposits you back at square one.

"It would be rather like someone from the twentieth century wandering up to a caveman and saying, 'Hi, there are some great things coming, you know, like colour television and the microwave oven and the wheel - the wheel's a round thing with spokes and it will help you get to places and make machines function.' The modern-day man would then disappear leaving the caveman scratching his head."

Kenny experimented with the drug numerous times over the years, before finally coming to the conclusion that it was "not to be recommended".

In the end, he simply decided: "Real life was actually just as jolly and much more interesting than any hallucination!"

Perhaps that's unsurprising, as - and he counted and among the friends that joined him.

Kenny died in 1995 of an AIDS-related illness - but fans can find out more about his colourful life and legacy by tuning into on Sunday evening, April 20, at 9pm for a screening of The Cancellation Of Kenny Everett.