I TRIED HEROIN, ADMITS SIR PAUL

MUSIC legend Paul McCartney tried heroin while still in the Beatles.

Sir Paul said he also "did coke."

"I did coke for about a year. Coke and maybe some grass to balance it out.
I was never completely crazy with cocaine," he said.

"I'd been introduced to it and, at first, it seemed OK, like anything
that's new and stimulating. When you start working your way through it, you
start thinking, 'Mmm, this is not so cool an idea', especially when you
start getting those terrible come-downs."

Talking to Uncut magazine, Sir Paul said he had tried heroin "just the once".

"Even then, I didn't realise I'd taken it. I was just handed something,
smoked it, then found out what it was.It didn't do anything for me, which
was lucky because I wouldn't have fancied heading down that road," he said.

The former Beatle, who is due to perform at this year's Glastonbury
Festival, said of his relationship with John Lennon: "The thing about me
and John is that we were different, but we weren't that different.

"I think Linda put her finger on it when she said me and John were like
mirror images of each other. Even down to how we started writing together,
facing each other, eyeball to eyeball, exactly like looking in the mirror."