Articles tagged "summer of love"

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Flower Power: Stepping Back From the Past

by Justin Cober-Lake

[31.Aug.07] :. After years of talking about how great this music is, it's time we started actually listening to it. For example, does a song sound like the year 1968, or does it sound like Deep Purple?

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Summer of love redux: ‘67 experience still resonates in San Francisco

by Mary Anne Ostrom [San Jose Mercury News (MCT)]

[29.Aug.07] :. SAN JOSE, Calif. - It’s been 40 years since 100,000 “Flower Children” descended on San Francisco and put Haight-Ashbury on the map. Talk to those who were there, and they get big...

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It’s time to get real, man, about the Summer of Love

by Chris Vognar [The Dallas Morning News (MCT)]

[15.Aug.07] :. The hippies are coming to town. Forty years ago, such a proclamation would have had hands wringing and tongues clucking in a “Not in my back yard” chorus. But today it merely signals an...

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TRAVELOGUE: A hip tour of hippie-dom

by Brian J. Cantwell [The Seattle Times (MCT)]

[29.Jun.07] :. SAN FRANCISCO—The “Summer of Love” turns 40 this year, and parties are planned. So, is this the death knell for Haight-Ashbury’s hipness? If 30 was “over the hill”...

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Love blooms anew for 1967

by Stevenson Swanson [Chicago Tribune (MCT)]

[4.Jun.07] :. The flowers that they wore in their hair have long since wilted, but the generation that came of age in the 1960s will spend the coming months recalling a summer four decades ago, when rock music,...

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Prepare for nostalgic trip in ‘07 celebration of psychedelia

by Jim Farber [New York Daily News (MCT)]

[25.May.07] :. Swirling graphics. Trippy music. And flowers draped dreamily in your hair. All the sights and sounds of ‘60s psychedelia will start haunting us with a special vengeance this week as the world...

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