A ton of songs defined the Summer of Love, but few are as memorable and catchy as “Happy Together” by Turtles. Released in April of 1967, this track caught the attention of listeners around the ...

The fabled Summer of Love was misunderstood even in its own time. In 1967, it conjured images of hippie culture, drug culture, the emerging counterculture in San Francisco and Los Angeles. It was West ...

The 1967 Summer of Love and the counterculture movement it inspired sought to transform America into a kinder, gentler society. In ways big and small — and in ways not always positive — it affected ...

The “Summer of Love” was a defining moment in San Francisco’s history. In 1967, more than 100,000 people flocked to the city’s Haight-Ashbury district, where droves of hippies embraced psychedelic ...

The Summer of Love didn’t just happen in a vacuum nearly 60 years ago. It wasn’t a kind of spontaneous combustion that created the hippie movement and the peace and love ethos of the ‘60s generation. ...

Janis Joplin, right, performs with guitarist Jorma Kaukonen. (Photo by Marjorie Allette) Dennis McNally is the author of “The Last Great Dream.” (Photo by Susana Millman) Show Caption 1 of 3 From left ...