Turn On, Tune In, Drop Out (album) Turn On, Tune In, Drop Out (album) Turn On, Tune In, Drop Out is a 1967 album credited to Timothy Leary, created to accompany the documentary film of the same name. It contains narrated meditation mixed with freeform psychedelic rock music. Side A Side B All selections written by Maryvonne Giercarz/Lars Eric/Richard Bond Guide: Timothy Leary, Ph.D. Voyager: Ralph Metzner, Ph.D. Divine Connection: Rosemary Woodruff Veena: Maryvonne Giercarz Guitar: Lars Eric Tabla: Richard Bond Executive Producer: Henry G. Saperstein Associate Producer: S. Richard Krown Special Effects Conception: UPA Pictures, Inc. Produced by Al Ham Tape Editor: Dale McKechnie Sample from
Turn on, tune in, drop out experience, peace and many other issues. In a 1988 interview with Neil Strauss, Leary said the slogan was "given to him" by Marshall McLuhan during a lunch in New York City. Leary added that McLuhan "was very much interested in ideas and marketing, and he started singing something like, 'Psychedelics hit the spot / Five hundred micrograms, that's a lot,' to the tune of a Pepsi commercial of the time. Then he started going, 'Tune in, turn on, and drop out. The phrase was used by Leary in a speech he delivered at the opening of a press conference in