1960-1969

    Every weekend there’s a party where the new music is played. Dance. Smoke a little marijuana. Dance. “Love, love me, do.” Beautiful, beautiful college women. John Lennon howling. Mick Jagger singing, “Time, time, time is on my side… Yes it is.”  The Beatles release their second movie. Help! I see it multiple times. […]

    While The Beatles were singing: “Love, love me, do,” Peter, Paul, and Mary -along with Joan Baez – were spreading the Word according to Bob Dylan. While they paved the way with the, in retrospect, surprisingly gentle “Blowin’ in the Wind,” Dylan went on to write and sing increasingly angry and passionate songs: […]

Ron made his living selling, trading, and displaying Beatle memorabilia. When I last saw him he was leaving for Paris to screen one of his Beatle movies. He would (no doubt) go to Paris, spend most of his time in the projection booth, and never let the print of the film out of his sight. […]

  I played Meet The Beatles a lot. What was it about them? Back in the roadside diner, on the little black and white screen Ringo shook his head, his hair bobbed. The girls screamed. Paul wiggled and smiled. The girls screamed. John Lennon bobbed up and down, singing into the mike, thin-lipped. Each young […]

I sat on the floor and watched, along with my high school friend Charlie Osborne, whose father, Richard, was hosting this affair. There were a lot of people in conservative Pebble Beach who felt that Richard had no business inviting a known radical singer into his house to raise money for a measure seen by […]

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 […]

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 […]

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.

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