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Freak scene music was an eclectic mixture based around progressive rock and experimentalism. There were crossover bands bridging rock and jazz , rock and folk , rock and sci-fi ( space rock ). BBC radio presenter John Peel presented a nightly show that featured the music.
[60] [61] [62] Hippies were also vilified and sometimes attacked by punks, [63] revivalist mods, greasers, football casuals, Teddy Boys and members of other American and European youth cultures in the 1970s and 1980s. Hippie ideals were a marked influence on anarcho-punk and some post-punk youth cultures, such as the Second Summer of Love.
"Turn on, tune in, drop out" is a counterculture-era phrase popularized by Timothy Leary in 1966. In 1967, Leary spoke at the Human Be-In, a gathering of 30,000 hippies in Golden Gate Park in San Francisco and phrased the famous words, "Turn on, tune in, drop out".
"The band's baroque House of Usher apartment on London's Shaftesbury Avenue had witnessed pre-Raphaelite hippy scenes, like Sandy the bass player (of The Deviants and Pink Fairies), Tony the now and again keyboard player, and a young David Bowie, fresh from Beckenham Arts Lab, sunbathing on the roof, taking photos of each other and posing coyly ...
Paulekas at a street festival in Los Angeles. Vitautus Alphonsus "Vito" Paulekas (20 May 1913 – 25 October 1992) was an American artist and bohemian, who was most notable for his leading role in the Southern California "freak scene" of the 1960s, and his influence on musicians including The Byrds, Love and Frank Zappa.
The Hog Farm is an organization considered America's longest running hippie commune.Beginning as a collective in North Hollywood, California, during the 1960s, a later move to an actual hog farm in Tujunga, California gave the group its name.
October 6: The "Death of Hippie" march is held in Haight-Ashbury by the Diggers as a mock funeral meant to signal the end of the Summer of Love and stop further commercialization of the hippie movement. [381] October 9: Death of Che Guevara: The Argentine revolutionary is executed in Bolivia. [382]
A hippie, also spelled hippy, [1] especially in British English, [2] is someone associated with the counterculture of the 1960s and 1970s, originally a youth movement that began in the United States during or around 1964, and spread to different countries around the world. [3]