I find this interview highly interesting, and should even place BF among the Aquarian counterculture. Maybe I exaggarate this info. from 1978 (The Bel Air era), but it's very new and exciting news to me, as a fan of both.
The author Robert Anton Wilson (Illuminatus!) considered Leary in an article in Paul Krassners (Yippie Party), The Realist in the end of the sixties, Timothy Leary the "Einstein of psychology", in an article called "The Pcychological H-bomb" .
http://www.rawilsonfans.com/articles/HBomb.htmThe Melody Maker interview stolen from neighbouring Roxyrama archive:
Scroll down to, "I am curious: Mellow"
http://www.roxyrama.com/classic/article ... aker.shtml