GENERATIONS

Double Fantasy is John’s first record in more than four years.  Intermittently I have heard of his “lost weekend” in Los Angeles, his return to Yoko, his stint as a “house husband.”  The secretary ushers me into the office where the operating head of the company sits behind his desk. He wears a beard, appears […]

Altamont was seen by many – I’m one of them – as the “end of the Sixties.” For reasons I didn’t appreciate for years the English seldom shared the American view that Altamont “ended the Sixties.” In part, I feel, since our Sixties and theirs bore little resemblance to one another. When I asked Mick […]

Nobody would understand this better, nor use it more to their advantage, than Madonna. The number of seismic social and cultural shifts she somehow embodied reads like an inventory of the rift in the generations: from the Sixties’ spiritual quest for ”Further” and ”All You Need Is Love” to the Eighties’ ”Material Girl” and ”Greed […]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Muz1OcEzJOs&feature=youtube_gdata_player Nobody would understand this better, nor use it more to their advantage, than Madonna. The number of seismic social and cultural shifts she somehow embodied reads like an inventory of the rift in the generations: from the Sixties’ spiritual quest for ”Further” and ”All You Need Is Love” to the Eighties’ ”Material Girl” and […]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K0VrjCnDgv8&feature=youtube_gdata_player Reports came into the tent of trouble earlier in the day. A Hell’s Angel had knocked out Marty Balin. Sam Cutler – who’d been awake all night trying to bring this thing off – made the point to the Hell’s Angel that there wasn’t going to be a concert if they kept knocking out […]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EbiV2Z1Lf5M&feature=youtube_gdata_player Sitting out on the uneven surface of the runway was a tail-dragging twin-engine DC something-or-other, the best — the only — airplane that a last-minute search was able to locate when someone (who knows?) had overslept, and the normal commercial airlines couldn’t manage to get the Stones to the next city on time. It […]

One day I answer a knock on the door. Standing just outside is a short, olive-complexioned man wearing a double-breasted pin-striped suit and a wide tie. His hair is slick and combed back above his ears, glistening jet black. In his left hand, he holds a cigar; on his pinkie finger a diamond ring. All […]

The Beatles by now have made known their alliance with the Maharishi. Almost simultaneously Brian Epstein dies. The Beatles announce they are doing another movie: Magical Mystery Tour. From AN AMERICAN STORY This video is a link from You Tube. All copyrights remain with the original copyright holders.

(Though the text from AMERICAN STORY is about Jimi Hendrix and Little Richard – and this clip is with another band – I still think it illustrates it wonderfully) One evening my sister and I cross the black Thames to the Royal Festival Hall, a modern cultural complex. I am excited for we have tickets […]

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