“They just carry you along with the absurdity”: The 1967 psychedelic song Sting crowned the peak of the genreIt is easy to take umbrage with Sting, given the former Police songwriter’s outspoken penchant for the more sanctimonious side of life. However, even the most ardent of Sting detractors must surely concede that the performer knows his way around the realm of psychedelia. According to the songwriter, his first psychedelic love arrived, as it did for many people, during the 1960s, thanks to a particularly up-to-date jukebox during the ‘Summer of Love’. While it might not have been quite as far-out as some of psych’s other offerings at that time, it earned masses of adoration in the UK, particularly from a young Sting. Not only was the song one of the defining psychedelic singles of 1967, but it ended up becoming one of the most ubiquitous number-one singles of the entire 1960s.