......Over me!

Did you know that the Beatles's hit song, "Come Together," is based on Timothy Leary's campaign against Ronald Regan.

In 1969 Timothy Leary intended to run for governor of CA against a B-movie actor named Ronald Regan. One of Leary's battlecries was "Come together," and he asked his friend John Lennon to write a song for it based on the campaign. By the time Lennon got around to it, Leary's campaign was dead (he had to drop out when he was convicted of marijuana possession).

Lennon liked the phrase, though, and decided to build a song around it anyway. He loosely based it on the old Chuck Berry tune, "You Can't Catch Me." He even left in the line, "Here come old flat-top."

"Come together" was one of Lennon's favorite songs: "It's funky, it's bluesy. You can dance to it. I'll buy it!"