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Tag: Hippies
How Hippies Put on the Worst Music Festival in History
Tom Duncan and Bob Alexander had big plans. In 1972, just four years after Woodstock and the Summer of Love, the two novice, Indiana-based promoters concocted a plan for a festival that would be “bigger than Woodstock.” Named the Erie Canal Soda Pop Festival, the Labor Day event was set to feature huge names like […]
How the Hippies Hijacked Vinyl
This week brings another Beatles-related 50th anniversary, and arguably the grooviest of them all: The release of Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band. It landed, for reasons that remain mysterious to me, on June 1, 1967 in England, and June 3 in the United States. Maybe that’s just how trans-Atlantic shipping worked in those days, […]
23 Pictures That Show Just How Far Out Hippies Really Were
View this image › A topless woman enjoying the music of Led Zeppelin at the Knebworth Festival in the UK in 1979. Evening Standard / Getty Images View this image › Left: Fans wait for the Rolling Stones to perform in London’s Hyde Park during July 1969. Right: A young woman wearing fresh flowers, body […]
