A ton of songs defined the Summer of Love, but few are as memorable and catchy as “Happy Together” by Turtles. Released in April of 1967, this track caught the attention of listeners around the ...
The “Summer of Love” was a defining moment in San Francisco’s history. In 1967, more than 100,000 people flocked to the city’s Haight-Ashbury district, where droves of hippies embraced psychedelic ...
San Francisco’s intersection of Haight and Ashbury streets was ground zero during the “Summer of Love”; a 1967 gathering of young people searching for an alternative lifestyle that included free love, ...
One of my most vivid summer memories goes all the way back to 1967, which now seems almost like an age of innocence. I was lucky enough to be living in Santa Cruz, California, and for once, I was in ...
Did the Summer of Love vibes inspire the wonderful music produced in the warmest months of 1967? Or did the music will the Summer of Love into existence? It’s a chicken-and-egg debate that probably ...
The 1967 Summer of Love and the counterculture movement it inspired sought to transform America into a kinder, gentler society. In ways big and small — and in ways not always positive — it affected ...
The Summer of Love didn’t just happen in a vacuum nearly 60 years ago. It wasn’t a kind of spontaneous combustion that created the hippie movement and the peace and love ethos of the ‘60s generation. ...