Editing Timothy Leary (section)

===In music===
''[[The Psychedelic Experience]]'' (1964) was the inspiration for [[John Lennon]]'s song "[[Tomorrow Never Knows]]", on [[The Beatles]]' album ''[[Revolver (Beatles album)|Revolver]]'' (1966).<ref name=Sante/>

[[The Moody Blues]] recorded two songs about Leary. "[[Legend of a Mind]]", written and sung by [[Ray Thomas]] on their album ''[[In Search of the Lost Chord]]'' (1968), begins: "Timothy Leary's dead. No, no, no, no, he's outside looking in".<ref name=Lattin/> The second was "When You're a Free Man" on the ''[[Seventh Sojourn]]'' album.{{sfnp|Higgs|2006|p=173}}

Leary recruited Lennon to write a theme song for his [[Governor of California|California gubernatorial]] campaign against Ronald Reagan (which was interrupted by Leary's prison sentence for cannabis possession), inspiring Lennon to come up with "[[Come Together]]" (1969), based on Leary's campaign theme and catchphrase.<ref name=Lattin>{{cite book |last=Lattin |first=Don |title=The Harvard Psychedelic Club: How Timothy Leary, Ram Dass, Huston Smith, and Andrew Weil Killed the Fifties and Ushered in a New Age for America |publisher=HarperCollins |year=2011 |page=13 |isbn=978-0-06-165594-4}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.beatlesbible.com/songs/come-together/ |title=Come Together |date=March 15, 2008 |publisher=The Beatles Bible |access-date=May 19, 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140726210303/http://www.beatlesbible.com/songs/come-together/ |archive-date=July 26, 2014 |url-status=live }}</ref>

Leary was present and sang back-up vocals when Lennon and his wife, [[Yoko Ono]], recorded "[[Give Peace a Chance]]" (1969) during their [[bed-in]] in Montreal and is mentioned in the lyrics of the song.<ref>{{cite book |last=Perlstein |first=Rick |title=Nixonland: The Rise of a President and the Fracturing of America |publisher=Simon and Schuster |year=2008 |page=386 |isbn=978-0-7432-4302-5}}</ref>

[[The Who]]'s 1970 single "[[The Seeker (The Who song)|The Seeker]]" mentions Leary in a sequence where the song's protagonist claims that Leary (among other high-profile people) was unable to help them with their search for answers.<ref>{{cite magazine |url=http://www.americansongwriter.com/2012/09/the-who-the-seeker/ |title=The Who, "The Seeker" |magazine=American Songwriter |date=September 17, 2012 |access-date=July 23, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150723123727/http://www.americansongwriter.com/2012/09/the-who-the-seeker/ |archive-date=July 23, 2015 |url-status=live }}</ref>

While in exile in [[Switzerland]], Leary and British writer Brian Barritt collaborated with the German band [[Ash Ra Tempel]] and recorded the album ''[[Seven Up (album)|Seven Up]]'' (1973).{{sfnp|Higgs|2006|pp=182–185}} He is credited as a songwriter, and his lyrics and vocals can be heard throughout the album.<ref>Article, "It's Frothy Man", ''Mojo'', issue #113, April 2003.</ref> Commenting on the work of his friend [[H. R. Giger]], a [[Surrealism|surrealist artist]] from Switzerland who won an [[Academy Award]] for his work on the film ''[[Alien (film)|Alien]]'', Leary noted:
{{blockquote|Giger's work disturbs us, spooks us, because of its enormous evolutionary time span. It shows us, all too clearly, where we come from and where we are going.|author=Timothy Leary |source=''[[The New York Times]]''<ref name="NYT-20140514">{{cite news |last=Martin |first=Douglas |title=H. R. Giger, Swiss Artist, Dies at 74; His Vision Gave Life to 'Alien' Creature |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2014/05/14/arts/h-r-giger-swiss-artist-dies-at-74-his-vision-gave-life-to-alien-creature.html |date=May 14, 2014 |work=[[The New York Times]] |access-date=May 14, 2014 |url-access=registration |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170921095733/https://www.nytimes.com/2014/05/14/arts/h-r-giger-swiss-artist-dies-at-74-his-vision-gave-life-to-alien-creature.html |archive-date=September 21, 2017 |url-status=live }}</ref>}}

During the height of [[rave culture]] from the 1980s to mid-2000s, recordings of Leary and other psychedelic thinkers speaking were often mixed into electronic music. [[The Shamen]] honored him in the song "Ebenezer Goode" on their album ''Boss Drum''.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Collin |first1=Matthew |title=Psychedelic Techno Gurus |url=https://daily.redbullmusicacademy.com/2016/04/psychedelic-techno-gurus-feature |website=daily.redbullmusicacademy.com/ |access-date=18 February 2025}}</ref> 

In 1995, Leary had a cameo at the end of the video for [[alternative rock]] group [[Blind Melon]]'s song "[[Galaxie (song)|Galaxie]]".<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ktZoUHcP0wI |title=Blind Melon – Galaxie |author=BlindMelonVEVO |date=October 12, 2012 |via=YouTube |access-date=January 29, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180224124347/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ktZoUHcP0wI |archive-date=February 24, 2018 |url-status=live}}</ref>

The [[Marcy Playground]] song "It's Saturday", from its 1999 album ''[[Shapeshifter (Marcy Playground album)|Shapeshifter]]'', mentions joining Leary "in a cryogenic freeze".<ref>{{Cite web |title=Marcy Playground - It's Saturday Lyrics |url=https://www.musixmatch.com/lyrics/Marcy-Playground/It-s-Saturday |access-date=2023-02-11 |website=musiXmatch |language=en}}</ref>