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In Search of the Lost Chord: 1967 and the Hippie Idea

Fifty years after 1967, Danny Goldberg explores the continued relevance of political and cultural movements from that pivotal year in history. 1967 was the year of the release of the Beatles’s Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band, and of debut albums from the Doors, the Grateful Dead, Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, among many others. In addition to the thriving music scene, 1967 was also the year of the Summer of Love; the year that millions of now-illegal LSD tabs flooded America; Muhammad Ali was convicted of avoiding the draft; Martin Luther King Jr. publicly opposed the war in Vietnam; Stokely Carmichael championed Black Power; Israel won the Six-Day War; and Che Guevara was murdered. It was the year that hundreds of thousands of protesters vainly attempted to levitate the Pentagon. It was the year the word “hippie” peaked and died, and the Yippies were born. Author and entertainment executive Danny Goldberg tells the subjective history of 1967 — the year he graduated from high school — by looking not only at the political causes but also at the spiritual, musical and psychedelic movements.











When: Tue., Jun. 6, 2017 at 7:00 pm
Where: The 92nd Street Y, New York
1395 Lexington Ave.
212-415-5500
Price: $25
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Fifty years after 1967, Danny Goldberg explores the continued relevance of political and cultural movements from that pivotal year in history. 1967 was the year of the release of the Beatles’s Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band, and of debut albums from the Doors, the Grateful Dead, Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, among many others. In addition to the thriving music scene, 1967 was also the year of the Summer of Love; the year that millions of now-illegal LSD tabs flooded America; Muhammad Ali was convicted of avoiding the draft; Martin Luther King Jr. publicly opposed the war in Vietnam; Stokely Carmichael championed Black Power; Israel won the Six-Day War; and Che Guevara was murdered. It was the year that hundreds of thousands of protesters vainly attempted to levitate the Pentagon. It was the year the word “hippie” peaked and died, and the Yippies were born. Author and entertainment executive Danny Goldberg tells the subjective history of 1967 — the year he graduated from high school — by looking not only at the political causes but also at the spiritual, musical and psychedelic movements.

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