The Vietnam War had a huge impact on popular music. Songs like Creedence Clearwater Revival’s “Fortunate Son,” the Plastic Ono Band’s “Give Peace a Chance,” and Edwin Starr’s “War” all reflect on the ...
The summer of 1967 was the "Summer of Love," centered in the Haight-Ashbury district in San Francisco, where the hippie counterculture was born. It also was punctuated with more than 150 race riots ...