These are some older versions of the lecture slides by Prof John Storey, delivered as part of my module

1. hippies, yippies, freaks, heads, flower children, diggers . . .
1. LSD
2. Music
3. Vietnam

2. Albert Hoffmann
d-lysergic acid diethylamide tartate 25
acid
16th April 1943

4. “Turn on, tune in, drop out” (Timothy Leary).

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Interview with Timothy Leary

6. “The danger of LSD is not physical or psychological, but social-political. Make no mistake: the
effect of consciousness-expanding drugs will be to transform our concepts of human nature, human
potentialities, existence. . . . Present social establishments had better be prepared for the change”
(Timothy Leary, The Politics of Ecstasy, 1965).
“The acid experience is so concrete. It draws a line right across your life - before and after LSD - in
the same way you felt that your step into radical politics drew a sharp division. . . . It’s not
necessarily that the actual content of the LSD experience contributed to politically radical or
revolutionary consciousness - it was just that the experience shared the structural characteristics of
political rebellion, and resonated those changes so that the two became independent prongs of an
over-arching transcending rebellion that took in the person and the State at the same time” (Carl
Oglesby, President of Students for a Democratic Society).

8. Tomorrow Never Knows (1966)
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Turn off your mind, relax and float down stream
It is not dying, it is not dying
Lay down all thought, surrender to the void
It is shining, it is shining
That you may see the meaning of within
It is being, it is being
That love is all and love is everyone
It is knowing, it is knowing
That ignorance and hate may mourn the dead
It is believing, it is believing
But listen to the colour of your dreams
It is not living, it is not living
Or play the game existence to the end
Of the beginning . . .
The Psychedelic Experience: A Manual Based on the
Tibetan Book of the Dead (1964), Timothy Leary, Richard Alpert, and
Ralph Metzner.

9. Bob Dylan
Mr Tambourine Man (1965)
Take me on a trip upon your magic swirlin' ship,
My senses have been stripped . . . .

10. Subterranean Homesick Blues (1965)

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“Don’t trust anyone over
thirty” (Jerry Rubin, co-founder
of the Yippies (Youth
International Party).
“I accept this Tom Paine Award on behalf of
James Forman of the Students Non-Violent
Coordinating Committee and on behalf of the
people who went to Cuba. . . . First of all
because they're all young and it's took me a long
time to get young and now I consider myself
young. And I'm proud of it. I'm proud that
I’m young” (acceptance speech, The National
Emergency Civil Liberties Committee).
“I was so much older then,
I’m younger than that now”
(My Back Pages).

12. America against Amerika

13. “We are outlaws in the eyes of Amerika” (We Can Be Together)
“We are volunteers of America” (Volunteers)

15. America’s War in Vietnam (1965-73)

16. Country Joe MacDonald, I-Feel-Like-I’m-Fixin’-To-Die Rag (1965)

17. “The revolutionaries are on Columbia”
“The Man can’t bust our music” (Columbia)
“It’s happening on Capitol”
“Psychedelia – the sound of the NOW generation” (MGM)
1968 ABC Distributors Conference:
“Turn on to profit power”
$800m to $1600m

18. “We found out, and it wasn’t for years that we did, that all the bread
we made for Decca was going into making black boxes that go into
American Airforce bombers to bomb fucking North Vietnam. They
took the bread we made for them and put it into the radar section of
their business. When we found that out, it blew our minds. That was
it. Gaddam, you find out you’ve help kill God knows how many
thousands of people without even knowing it” (Keith Richards;
quoted in John Storey, “Rockin’ Hegemony: West Coast Rock and
Amerika’s War in Vietnam” in Cultural Theory and
Popular Culture: A Reader, 4th edition).

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Michael Lang (music promoter)
Artie Kornfeld (Capitol Records executive)
John Morris and Joel Rosenman (venture capitalists):
"Young men with unlimited capital looking for interesting, legitimate investment opportunities and
business propositions” (New York Times).

21. “Is Manson a Hippie?” (Rolling
Stone Magazine)
Meredith Hunter murdered at
Rolling Stones concert, Altamont
Speedway

22. Almost cut my hair (David
Crosby)
Almost cut my hair
It happened just the other day
It was getting kind of long
I could have said it was in my way
But I didn't and I wonder why
I feel like letting my freak flag fly
And I feel like I owe it to someone
Must be because I had the flu for Christmas
And I'm not feeling up to par
It increases my paranoia
Like looking into a mirror and seeing a police car
But I'm not giving in an inch to fear
Cos I promised myself this year
I feel like I owe it to someone
When I finally get myself together
I'm gonna get down
In some of that sweet summer weather
I'm going to find a space inside to laugh
Separate the wheat from the chaff
Cos I feel like I owe it, yeah

23. Ohio (Neil Young)
Tin soldiers and Nixon coming,
We're finally on our own.
This summer I hear the drumming,
Four dead in Ohio.
Gotta get down to it
Soldiers are gunning us down
Should have been done long ago.
What if you knew her
And found her dead on the ground
How can you run when you know?
Gotta get down to it
Soldiers are gunning us down
Should have been done long ago.
What if you knew her
And found her dead on the ground
How can you run when you know?
Tin soldiers and Nixon coming,
We're finally on our own.
This summer I hear the drumming,
Four dead in Ohio.

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final scenes from Easy Rider (1969)