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"My Country, 'Tis of Thee", also known as simply "America", is an American patriotic song, the lyrics of which were written by Samuel Francis Smith. [2] The song served as one of the de facto national anthems of the United States (along with songs like "Hail, Columbia") before the adoption of "The Star-Spangled Banner" as the official U.S. national anthem in 1931. [3]
The 1967 Milwaukee race riots begin, lasting through August 2 and leading to a ten-day shutdown of the city from August 1. August. August 30: ...
Psychedelic rock reached its apogee in the last years of the decade. In America the Summer of Love was prefaced by the Human Be-In event and reached its peak at the Monterey Pop Festival, [16] the later helping to make major American stars of Jimi Hendrix and The Who, whose single "I Can See for Miles" delved into psychedelic territory. [17]
The Summer of Love was a major social phenomenon that occurred in San Francisco during the summer of 1967. As many as 100,000 people, mostly young people, hippies , beatniks , and 1960s counterculture figures, converged in San Francisco's Haight-Ashbury district and Golden Gate Park .
The year 1967 was an important one for psychedelic rock, and was famous for its "Summer of Love" in San Francisco.It saw major releases from multiple well-known bands including The Beatles, Small Faces, the newly renamed Eric Burdon and the Animals, Jefferson Airplane, Love, The Beach Boys, Cream, The Byrds, The Rolling Stones, The Who, and The Monkees.
“America First” was written in part as an anti-Bush, anti-Iraq War protest song. And if that’s the reason Vance picked it as his theme music (apart from the obviously slogan-friendly title ...
British composer Laurie Johnson, whose theme for “The Avengers” was among the most famous of 1960s spy-show signatures, died in his sleep on Tuesday, Jan. 16, in North London, according to a ...
The urban crisis of the 1960s continued to escalate in the 1970s, with major episodes of riots in many cities every summer. The postwar suburbanization boom had left America's inner cities neglected, as middle-class whites gradually moved out. Rundown housing was increasingly filled by an underclass, with high unemployment rates and high crime ...