Pressurize

In my research, the word "pressurize" has shown up twice.  In Cynthia Lennon's book, A Twist of Lennon (1978), on page 142, she was talking about John's fear of physically disabled people and how The Beatles were seen by some people  as "shining lights for those who were afflicted with any kind of illness or incapacity":
     "It really was too much for four young men to cope with. They were being pressurized into what people wanted them to be, not what they were.  Every single thing they did or said was repeated, reported and analysed.  Individual freedom had become a luxury of the past."  She talks about their turning to drugs for escape.

The second example was in a song by the English group, The MOVE, called Flowers in the Rain, released in September, 1967:
      So I lay upon my side
      With the windows open wide
      Couldn't pressurize my head to keep from speaking.

The Oxford Universal Dictionary, 3rd. edition (1964),[an abridged edition of the Oxford English Dictionary] gives a definition of pressure as:  "The condition of being painfully oppressed in body or mind; affliction, oppression" (definition II, 1).  That definition would seem to apply to Cynthia Lennon's example.

The MOVE's example seems to be more in line with a literal interpretation of "pressure":  "The force exerted by one body on another by its weight, or by the continued application of power, viewed as a measurable quantity, the amount being expressed by the weight upon a unit area" (definition I,2).  Without getting too technical, I again think this was a reference to the hyperbaric oxygen bed that I have been talking about in other posts.  The bed applied pure oxygen under pressure to persons enclosed in it, with the claim that it had therapeutic effects.  The pressure was to a level of 2 atmospheres, equal to the weight of air and water 33 ft. below sea level.

My point is that something was being done to Paul, and possibly the other Beatles, and the idea is to find out what REALLY happened to them, because the truth definitely has not yet been told.