ShareThisBy MARK BROWN
Scripps Howard News Service
Tuesday, May 29, 2007
Some dates during the year dubbed the Summer of Love, which saw thousands flock to San Francisco to be part of the scene:
_ Jan. 14, 1967: The Human Be-In in Golden Gate Park in San Francisco, where Timothy Leary famously urged the crowd to "Turn on, tune in, drop out."
_ June 1: Release of Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band.
_ June 16-18: The Monterey International Pop Festival, three days of music featuring breakout performances by The Who, Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, and Otis Redding.
_ Oct. 6: The Death of Hippie march, a mock funeral staged in Haight-Ashbury to tell aspiring flower children to stay home.
_ Nov. 9: First edition of Rolling Stone published in San Francisco, launched with $7,500 borrowed from publisher Jann Wenner's wife's family.
RELIVE THE LOVE
A partial look at CDs, documentaries and other events surrounding the 40th anniversary of the summer:
_ A two-CD collection of songs from the festival, "Monterey Pop Festival," will be in stores on June 5.
_ VH1's "Monterey 40," a VH1 documentary, premieres June 16.
_ Rolling Stone magazine will publish a Summer of Love double issue in June.
_ The Whitney Museum of American Art in New York is marking the anniversary with "Summer of Love: Art of the Psychedelic Era," through Sept. 16. www.whitney.org
_ The Monterey Summer of Love Festival will be held July 28-29 at the Monterey County Fairgrounds in Monterey, Calif.
A HIT PROMO
John Phillips of the Mamas and the Papas was a hit machine in the '60s. He even scored a hit with "San Francisco (Be Sure To Wear Flowers In Your Hair)," created to promote the Monterey International Pop Festival. The song reached No. 4 on Billboard's chart of singles. Lyrics from the song performed by Scott MacKenzie:
"If you're going to San Francisco
Be sure to wear
Some flowers in your hair
If you're going to San Francisco
You're gonna meet
Some gentle people there."
