10 albums from the 1960s that we would rate an 11/10
Better than perfect.
Hippie
The hippie movement was a countercultural and social movement that emerged during the 1960s, particularly in the United States and Western Europe, promoting peace, personal freedom, communal living and a rejection of mainstream consumer culture.
Closely associated with the anti-Vietnam War movement, civil rights activism, environmentalism and the sexual revolution, hippie culture embraced ideals of nonviolence, artistic expression and spiritual exploration. Music played a central role in the movement, with artists such as the Grateful Dead, Jefferson Airplane, Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, the Beatles and Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young becoming defining voices of the era.
Events including the 1967 Summer of Love and the 1969 Woodstock Music and Art Fair came to symbolise the movement, whose influence continues to shape music, fashion, politics and popular culture.
Hippies, the apocalypse, and how 1969’s ‘Easy Rider’ led to an overlooked Neil Young masterpiece
It deserves more praise.
Haight in your heart: The causes and lasting effects of the ‘Summer of Love’, 1967
A dream that might have been realised if fewer people had known about it.
The Psychedelic Shop: the first Haight-Ashbury store to commercialise the counterculture
“To have a spiritual, wholesome life…”
Failing to get arrested at the White House destroyed The Guess Who: “I would’ve!”
A missed opportunity.
eden ahbez: The first hippie of the counterculture movement
The nature boy who wrote ‘Nature Boy’, one of the biggest jazz hits of the ’40s.
The Moroccan hippie trail: beats, hash and freedom
An essential pitstop on the road to self-discovery.
‘San Francisco (Be Sure to Wear Flowers In Your Hair)’: How a terrified town led to the definitive hippie anthem
A defining track of the 1960s…
More About Hippie
The hippie movement was a 1960s countercultural movement that promoted peace, love, personal freedom, communal living and opposition to war, while embracing music, artistic expression, environmentalism and alternative lifestyles.
Hippie culture is closely associated with psychedelic rock, folk rock and acid rock, with artists including Jefferson Airplane, the Grateful Dead, Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, the Doors, the Beatles, Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young and Santana among its most influential musical figures.
The Summer of Love was a cultural phenomenon that took place in San Francisco during the summer of 1967, when thousands of young people gathered to celebrate the ideals of the hippie movement through music, art, peace activism and communal living.