Hippie Death Trips

By Stewart Mason

What happens when peace, love and flowers aren't the answer? Drugs, disillusionment, despair, and, of course, death. Here's the hangover that followed the Summer of Love. (And no, there's no Velvet Underground: they weren't hippies.)

CRITICAL LIST
Forever Changes Album Love Surface prettiness masks flower power's dark undercurrents >>
Easy Rider Feature Film Dennis Hopper
Concentration Moon Song The Mothers Of Invention
Head Feature Film Bob Rafelson
Ballad of the Hip Death Goddess Song Ultimate Spinach
The Family Book Ed Sanders
Wooden Ships Song Crosby, Stills & Nash
Performance Feature Film Donald Cammell
Surf's Up Album The Beach Boys
Joe Feature Film John G. Avildsen

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Hippie Death Trips

Easy Rider

Concentration Moon

Head

Ballad of the Hip Death Goddess

The Family

Wooden Ships

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