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In 1967 an expressive, colourful musical force painted a backdrop of social change, fashion, love, turmoil and war. The world remembers the Summer of Love in 1967 as one of those moments when a unique and creative explosion of music and popular culture arrived in the UK and USA.
This documentary is driven by the soundtrack of the time, which kept the troops company in Vietnam, powered the Anti-War and Civil Rights movements, and opened the hearts and minds of baby boomers who had matured into teens. This special celebrates 1967 as a famous year full of music and change. “Stick a flower in your hair and remember that you are Us not Them.”
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This documentary is driven by the soundtrack of the time, which kept the troops company in Vietnam, powered the Anti-War and Civil Rights movements, and opened the hearts and minds of baby boomers who had matured into teens. This special celebrates 1967 as a famous year full of music and change.

[@jrussellcase]

One thing about this time period: It was driven by the music.

[@FreeDocumentaryHistory]

@@jrussellcase quite amazing I must say. And such iconic songs. They’ve stood the test of time

[@fayejacobs1043]

@@jrussellcase perhaps the drugs too😏

[@danielgiraud1118]

Hey Chuck ! Ton documentaire est très mal fait. C'est brouillon, on ne voit rien, les images passent beaucoup trop vite, on ne peut pas apprécier. C'est raté. Je ne te félicite pas. Dommage... *** Hey Chuck ! Yer documentary is very poorly done. It's messy, ye cannie see anything, the images go by way too quickly, ye cannie appreciate it. Yewh blew it !. I'm nae a-congratulatin' thee. Too bad...

[@pikespeak8669]

USA PULLED OUT OF VIETNAM 🇻🇳 THE NORTH COMMUNIST CAME SOUTH POOR PEOPLE STILL CONTROLLED BY NORTH. SO MANY MEN WOMEN DIED😭. The only time no soldier's been send to War with President Trump. Look bushes made war's.

[@bold58]

I can remember my mother in the summer of 67 at the kitchen counter with sun shining through the window on her bleach blonde hair and her transistor radio on the counter next to her playing the songs of 67 . The Association , the Turtles, The Beatles etc. She seemed so happy then.

[@FreeDocumentaryHistory]

Love your anecdote. You transport the reader to that space. Thank you

[@shootfirst2097]

I remember walking with my sister to school in '65 and hearing "Satisfaction" and "Get Off My Cloud" playing on her transistor radio. Also being at an outdoor teen dance at the city park's tennis courts and hearing "Ferry Cross the Mersey." I think it was even a live band.

[@patriciamasci6172]

Those were "happier" times then - Moms like yours & mine are harder to find today....sadly.

[@mikenuyen4441]

i remember all this stuff. 10 years old in 67. I got the best time to be alive in America.

[@lastofthev8interceptors411]

I was nine, living in an innocent South Pacific paradise, New Zealand.We were second tier boomers, the first gen had to fight our oldies in the sixties to gain their freedom, by the time the seventies rolled around parents had given up, leaving a stroppy bunch of long haired rebels to pretty much do as we pleased!

[@blossom1643]

Second tier Boomers! Love it ! Never heard it put like that ! We Did live in The Best Era for music! Nothin else comes Close!✌️🇺🇸

[@TerryFlynn-sd1ho]

I turned 10 in Nov 67 but already playing both guitar and drums, had 45s of Beatles, Stones, Yardbirds etc.lived in 'Littleton 'Denver at the time but made a living playing music for decades so I guess The Summer of 67 rubbed off on me .Peace ❤

[@ConnieM777]

I was 11. You can’t imagine how magical that year was, you had to live it.

[@ThomasCranmer1959]

Rock music of the 60s was incredible. The Hammond organ has a unique sound.

[@robertshapiro3733]

And according to Al Kooper, Dylan’s organist on the album “Highway 61 Revisited”, a most difficult instrument to play. He was unable to even find its power button. But as the songs themselves attest, it brought, for example, the song “Like a Rolling Stone” to immeasurable heights.

[@danielgiraud1118]

@@robertshapiro3733 : Stevie Winwood, Jimmy Smith, Mahalia Jackson, Booker T. Jones jouaient aussi sur des orgues Hammond.

[@timanctil8225]

I sold a first series Hammond at a garage sale in the eighties for $40...oops! My memory got a little clearer, it wasn't a Hammond, it was a Moog... but either way, oops!

[@missrayelyn3045]

My uncle was drafted, and in Vietnam in '67. I was 10, and I remember watching the news trying to see if I could spot him. I remember being scared until he came home. I can't imagine how scared my grandparents must've been. That was a time when there was a dark cloud hanging around.

[@ThomasCranmer1959]

My uncle was drafted. He was never the same. Became an alcoholic and died of heart trouble in his 40s.

[@missrayelyn3045]

@ThomasCranmer1959 my uncle wasn't the same either. He is still alive, but that war took away a part of his personality that never came back. To this day, he's afraid of the dark.

[@hurdygurdyguy1]

My wife's brother was a Marine and spent a good amount of time at the Demilitarized Zone in Vietnam. Her sister's boyfriend served on an aircraft carrier. She remembers the worry they all went through. She has a cousin who was a Green Beret and had grim experiences in Vietnam...

[@tundrawomansays694]

I don’t know why we still think we can send people to war and have them return unchanged as a result of their experiences. That’s not realistic at all.

[@cherylmarcuri5506]

My uncle also served in Nam that year. I wonder if your dad knew my uncle?

[@timcross2510]

My world war two era uncles were upset that summer because young boys were dead in Nam and the newspapers put golf tournaments, show biz and "anything but dead in the jungle" on the front pages and nightly news. I was 8. Never forgot that.

[@cocoaorange1]

WWII, Korea, and Vietnam, that's 3 wars in 3 decades, it was too much, I was born in August of 1967.

[@mikewithers299]

What a time to be alive and witness history changing. I was 5 years old then. The music of that time will never fade away for me.

[@yaraviera4444]

I was born in 1982..an before it was a little dispute about presidential election I believe in Dominican 🇩🇴 republic. Then I came to USA 🇺🇸 by 9 years of age..an started learning about the history of USA in high school..but this a history they don't teach in high school..or college unless you don't read about it

[@pikespeak8669]

@yaraviera4444 50 yr's ado teacher's don't teach real history. America bad sociolist great (wrong). We thought or son's The real history.

[@KaryannFontaineikary4]

I was 17 in 1967. Loved the music, lost older friends to the war. The Viet Nan War was heartbreaking. The body bags of our men on the news. Hated the War and respected our Vets. Many men who came home, turned to drugs to cope, some could not cope at all. The draft was feared. Our generation had a better way than the rigid establishment who reviled us. Love, communication, understanding.

[@alexiasherman3358]

I graduated HS in '67. Both fabulous and sad times with the best music ever. Would not want to be any other age than I was then and am now.

[@jimmyflanagan5938]

Graduated HS 1967 west high Torrance California. What a time to me a teenager in L A

[@ClassicMoments-bg1bb]

You describe ’67 very accurately. Great music during a sad era.

[@stevenr8606]

👍🏻 HS GRAD '74 🎉😊

[@shootfirst2097]

I could rather stay in my late teens and early 20s. Best times of MY life.

[@juliejackman2649]

My Dad fought in the Vietnam war and I'm very proud of him and all the rest for fighting for freedom. 🇺🇸

[@caroleminke6116]

Was he drafted? ❤️‍🩹

[@kcollinsgallhollcom]

It was a foolish war escalated by LBJ to line his pockets and the pockets of his friends. However the troops are not to blame, were heroes and were treated terribly by our government. Vets shouldn’t be treated that way

[@sharolynwells]

My late husband served in Cambodia during the Vietnam War -- Jan. 1970 to Dec. 1971. I'm fighting for him mow because he was exposed to Agent Orange over there. He died from a dead liver a year ago.i miss him so much.

[@johndoe-od6ge]

@@sharolynwells I'm sorry for your loss !!!

[@ThomasCranmer1959]

​@@kcollinsgallhollcomIt was a foolish war started by.... drum roll..... PROGRESSIVE DEMOCRATS. JFK.

[@giselematthews7949]

I was only 13 in 67. But i remember it well.

[@elizabethmcleod246]

I was 10 years old. What a time to be alive.

[@shootfirst2097]

@@elizabethmcleod246 Yes, I was ten, too. And my older sisters were music fanatics, so I was DRILLED with this great music constantly. We also had a AM disc jockey down the street who gave my sisters free promo albums and singles.

[@elizabethmcleod246]

@@shootfirst2097 Nice! It was my hip Mom who bought me albums from various artists. Oh course, I listened to the radio all the time to.

[@kimdurig1322]

I turned thirteen that year what an amazing time to live

[@jamesmiller510]

I was 14

[@gordlawton]

I turned 17 in 1967. So many things were happening at the time. I wouldn't pick a different time to grow up.

[@humboldthammer]

Consider this . . . never before RIGHT NOW -- not in the entire history of men and women on Earth -- have so many educated people lived so freely and so abundantly. And for just 18 years, since Google bought KZbin and TV went digital in 2006, we have been connected to a shared, worldwide experience with near-instant communication. It is GUARANTEED to wake "THIS" generation up.

[@deboramccallum3987]

Best times ever from a ten year olds eyes. We used to have slumber parties and pretend we were Motown singer's. I'll never forget it.

[@sarasarah1810]

throughout all the turmoil going on through the 60s worldwide, all the good and all the bad, one thing stands out more to me than anything. that decade gave the world the best music we have ever heard.

[@JollyRoger1969]

Really enjoyed the soundtrack of this documentary, I'm a 90s kid but always felt a spiritual connection to this time. Can appreciate how people wanted change, thinking and do things differently.

[@JRNarian]

As a 90s kid as well, I remember the 60s and 70s making a comeback during that time :)

[@robynmasters335]

My mom was 18 and in the process of conceiving me in '67. I was the result of Flower Power.

[@cocoaorange1]

I was born in August 1967.

[@JRNarian]

I'm a millennial but my parents came of age during this time and I grew up with the music of this era at our house :)

[@chimom7112]

I'm a boomer and I brought my kids up with music from 60s to 80s.

[@nanabutner]

I remember the “SUMMER OF LOVE” very well! We had the whole world at our feet and yes--we could do anything! I took part in “PROTEST MARCHES” and so many other things. “WE ALSO LOST SO MANY GOOD THINGS AS WELL”!

[@anitakephart3851]

My baby sis was born in '67. She is already gone. I still can't believe it. I can't quite get over it. Wish she was here. I used to sing all these songs to her in my 65 Ford Falcon and it still is one of my favorite memories of back then . I was 10 yrs older and felt like I was supposed to look after here. It was a time that is hard to get younger people of today to get to understand. I guess you just had to be there. What a time, what a time, what a time...

[@kckazcoll1]

thanks for this perspective, very enjoyable! Love all the music used in this doco, too

[@dianeruiz0721]

I was 7 in 67 but remember it well. The music on the radio was great!! I remember seeing the Vietnam War coverage on the news. My immediate family didn’t have any one out there fighting. My Dad fought in the Korean War. Everything was great but then only I was too young to realize it

[@yassir1776]

Looks like we're headed for another summer of love

[@eddenoy321]

we need it

[@lelandkelley2199]

I was four years old and remember the music and cars and fashion. In highschool I had a 67 mustang

[@user-zl7uo3qf4d]

Bs

[@lelandkelley2199]

I didn’t, confused with someone else

[@ruthhaywood3473]

This is a great documentary. Will watch again. Thanks 4 the memories

[@fayejacobs1043]

Excellent Doc, this was definetly my mom's era. I just sent her this Doc to watch. My mom graduated high school in '67, i will have to talk to her about her version of "Summer of Love"Man what a time to have been alive!!!

[@danielgiraud1118]

Hey Chuck ! Yer documentary is very poorly done. It's messy, ye cannie see anything, the images go by way too quickly, ye cannie appreciate it. Yewh blew it !. I'm nae a-congratulatin' thee. Too bad...

[@marymacdonald2379]

I am your Mom's age. I spent the summer of 1967 in L.A. marijuana from Mexico (not so strong as weed today) was everywhere. Concerts were affordable even for an 18year old with a summer job. Way lower crime and teenagers could get jobs easily.

[@danielgiraud1118]

@@marymacdonald2379 : Sae, the same age we art.

[@martinavila6821]

1967 ,i turned 13 in January. Enjoyed my youth. Remember listening the world news with Walter Cronkite, and what was happening at that time. The music and the bands that played them were great. What Me Worry ,i was too busy being a kid

[@CraigPrice-zq5wz]

Still best music of our times. Great 😊 and keep on trucking.

[@ronaldzent6321]

Twiggy, the first Supermodel. Those eyes!

[@tiffanyroseangeles34]

That was a cool look! I wish I’d been around to see it all Loved Mary Quants designs as well….I wasn’t born until 1961 … like many here. I loved the kohl eyeliner …..

[@MaureenDeVries-wd9mh]

Jean Shrimpton?

[@n9oqu]

she had eyes but mothing else!

[@ronaldzent6321]

So sad about both Tammy Terrell and Marvin Gaye. Marvin was never the same after she died so young.

[@danilaroche1156]

I met Tammi at a Motown picnic. She was very attractive. She got beat up by the industry and abusive men.

[@jrussellcase]

Tammi Terrell's passing was a huge loss. I was born a year and a half after she passed. She had a helluva voice, and was easy on the eyes.

[@fabrikk60]

Whenever I see Tammi I feel a little emotional, about how sad her early passing was. She seemed like a sweet and beautiful person.

[@ginaferracini9375]

I was born in 1967 I remember my mums and sisters dresses amazing loved the music too ..60s 🎶 🌼🧡

[@stevenhanson6057]

Now we’re wearing them!

[@user-qs7gx7rp7m]

As a Canadian '67 was a defining moment for an 18 year old. The Nam war was a blessing. By 70 as as a would be 'hippie' inan age when feminis declared peace in the war between the sexes, bras were burned and birth control pills were everywhere, the CND was at par with the US $ and Europe not yet recovered from WWII was dirt cheap. I got to visit France, Spain twice, Morocco (extraordinary adventures everywhere in near pre-tourist Europe) and lasty old England. Cost $850 for 6 months of truly remarkable adventure (Can pay for a moron was $80 per week). Few Americans males - so no competition, but no shortage of Yankee Gal college grads, lots & lots of Aussis and many interesting Brits. In 75 years of life I can truly honestly say God was more than good to me for all of that time. It still makes me smile and the special loves experienced along the way leave me happily-sad for having lived it. Not afraid of dying any time. Fate allowed me the very best even if a poor man then and now.

[@fabrikk60]

"The Nam war was a blessing". WTF??

[@zenlandzipline]

@@fabrikk60maybe he got a lot of poon because all the men went to Vietnam to fight. A lot of lonely girls here. Just guessing, because I can’t think of any reason why war would be a blessing.

[@robertcombs55]

in 1968...I arrived in Vietnam....or Hell as we called it...

[@bettierusso5410]

I was just 10 years old in 1967. I was living for a year in Okinawa while my Dad was a Country Music musician and was on tour with his band playing for the troops in the Vietnam War. He was a veteran of WWII on the Beaches of Normandy. I, being an American, always believed the "summer of love" was 1969..Candlestick Park, Height Ashbury in San Fransisco, WOOD STOCK! It was a blast to grow up then. I remember these three years as constant TV of the war, and being spoiled rotten by the lonely American Soldiers who missed their family, especially their little sisters back home when they saw my sister and I. They saw a little girl with blond hair, and big blue eyes, who spoke English. The Hippy movement was earlier in London, then hit America in full color in 1969. I loved the music of the time, and my Dad and Mom didn't ...just like most parents of the time! This brings a lot of memories.

[@MrFroglips69]

Groovy baby, totally trippy.

[@robertmanley2687]

I had a Jimi Hendrix poster with a black light and Hey Joe written in day-glo paint on my bedroom wall in 1967.

[@danilaroche1156]

I loved his music too but keep in mind, he was an occultist. I'd steer clear. Beatles were occultists too.

[@robertmanley2687]

@@danilaroche1156 Purple Haze

[@tommyasprion4394]

I am also proud of our troops that served during Vietnam War- they were standing against evil regime, just as ww2 vets and Korea. Now darkness has descended on our once great nation.

[@sharyllee7094]

I'm proud of them, too. AND, a lot of the evilness of that time, lived in our own Government...

[@scottfagerstrom9312]

I'm proud of them, too, but we were definitely fighting on the wrong side in that war.

[@jeffbreezee]

I was a one year old in 67, but I heard plenty of stories from that year. My dad was Korean War vet, so he was a regular working stiff. He had two younger brothers who served in Vietnam in 67. One in the Air Force and one in the Marines.

[@danielpollak6075]

👏👏excellent documentation of the summer of love👏👏well done👍~ty

[@francisebbecke2727]

For most of us being a hippy was for just a season, but what a season!

[@jerrylubrano5052]

I was 16 in 1967. Absolutely an incredible time to be alive in America except for the war and the Beatles. The so-called Fab Four couldn’t hold a candle of the greatest of them all - The Stones ( they are still touring! Can you believe it? And to sold out crowds)

[@Penetrate-the-evening]

Sorry but Jimi Hendrix doesn't belong to Britain , he's an American!! He was one of us !!😂😂😂

[@ismoli1979]

Well he had to go to Britain to get a carrier 😊

[@ScarlettFire341]

"First we overlook evil, Then we permit evil. Then we legalize evil. Then we promote evil. Then we celebrate evil. Then we persecute those who still call it evil." Fr. Dwight Longenecker “In the Last Days, Good will be called Evil and Evil will be called Good.” Are We There YET ?

[@hollyringo8198]

I think your on to something, a child of 1967, & what an explosive time of creativity, & makes me understand me better, I think the word evil in your analogy is bit harsh, but I can see your leaning but, I believe it’s more of the Ying/Yang thing, the dark took far too many but they weren’t evil, just curious & f’n talented. Make good choices kids.

[@cathybassett6432]

Thank you for this fabulous video! I was 15 turned16 in 1967. What a fabulous time to be alive. The most EXCELLENT music. Lucky me lucky us.

[@nekomantix598]

My moms dad is a Mexican american Vietnam Veteran and grandmother was the cute girl with a beehive hairstyle and cute skirts and heels, they listened to fats domino and other oldies And my dad’s dad and grandmother were in San Francisco, with flowers in their hair 😊 they even experienced the famous Altamont CA concert lol they are all alive and well today, I’m glad I have been raised to know about what they’ve experienced and their perspectives 🙂

[@gogoyubari366]

I remember in 1850 I was In the turkey war. We had little flutes to sing in Orlando with the rice in soy sauce. Can't do that no more with the woodcraft in Alabama.

[@Fawn91193]

🤣🤣🤣

[@Shanehutcheson841]

Great Video!!

[@trevorwakefiel870]

Im British born but my family emigrated to Australia on BOAC in 1969.. Australian Soldiers & NZ soldiers also fought in Vietnam even as a young child and seeing fhe conflict daily on black & white TV. Australians where rallying also in capitals cities to end the Vietnam war and young men called up for 2 years national service ... Alot of young men came back mentally medically ill ruined alot men forever and not to mention deformed children being born due to Vietnam vets in the field sprayed from above with agent orange and caused alot of cancers to some ex Vietnam vet's.

[@apitheous194]

As a white kid growing up in the late sixties and mid seventies I loved rock and Motown, What a great time for music.

[@robertlear2712]

I was in college in 1967 and I was in a band. I just wanted to do music. I only stayed in college because I didn’t want to be drafted, which I barely escaped.

[@jessiem276]

So you figured someone else could go instead of you??

[@howardquinn5911]

⁠@@jessiem276I was 4F and lucky. My dad and his three brothers went to WWII. Two didn’t come back. The other two did, but it wasn’t easy. Our dad stayed in 20 years. I always wonder what he might say to someone like you. He didn’t talk much about his experience. What’s your story?

[@Jayjay-qe6um]

"The 1960s were about releasing ourselves from conventional society and freeing ourselves." -- Yoko Ono

[@jamesstone9213]

😂😂

[@jamesstone9213]

😂😂😂

[@jamesstone9213]

😂😂😂😂

[@the4thway51]

I'm surprised, this is well put together.

[@arthurdalton517]

I am from Santa Cruz and I think that this documentary is great .I think that we in the S F bay and around it were at least 3 to mabey 5 years ahead of the rest of the Country . Monterey pops. Festival was great and According to Grace Slick it was the best one of the 3 it's been said that Janice Joplin was the Artist that everyone came to see.

[@danielgiraud1118]

Hey Chuck ! Yer documentary is very poorly done. It's messy, ye cannie see anything, the images go by way too quickly, ye cannie appreciate it. Yewh blew it !. I'm nae a-congratulatin' thee. Too bad...

[@arthurdalton517]

@@danielgiraud1118 are you from there

[@danielgiraud1118]

@@arthurdalton517 : "Are ye from there" ? From where ? Can ye speak english properly, pliz ?

[@arthurdalton517]

@@danielgiraud1118 are you from the San Francisco bay area or Monterey Bay. I am and I thought it was done very well

[@danielgiraud1118]

@@arthurdalton517 : Et alors Doolin'-Dalton ?

[@yaraviera4444]

Thanks for sharing this. Lovely video about what was the 60s like I was born in the 80s.yet I know black community suffered a lot..

[@jessiem276]

Lots of people suffered!

[@ericsahagun5344]

Bonnie in minute 34 of this 43-minute video you talk about the Ed Sullivan Show and the doors with pissed me off so bad about that Is Jim wasn't allowed to say the word higher and so he went and said it and Mr Sullivan said you'll never come back and of course Jim said that's okay we've already done it! And if I'm not mistaken by the following year Sly in the family stones came on singing the song WANNA TAKE YOU HIGHER and suddenly the word higher to Mr Sullivan was not a problem ... Ironic isn't it 🤔🥴😆

[@suestephan3255]

It was a great time to be a young person, all about the music, transistor radios, record players, going to the near by 5 & 10 to buy the latest 45. I was born 10/50 so I was 17 that summer. I didn’t pay that much attention to the Viet Nam war. My Dad died in ‘57 and I didn’t really watch the news. I was working nights and out with friends walking when not working. I did due to my neighbor who gave me the address of the of the paper that had Marine’s names and I did write to them about 60 letters and they wrote back.

[@suestephan3255]

The magazine was Sea Tiger. Like I said I wrote to about 60 marines in 67-68

[@hurdygurdyguy1]

I was only 12 in '67 and living in a small farm-based town got only a glimpse (aka what was allowed) of Hippies, the Counter Culture etc. By the time I was in high school all that had been commercialized and diluted, made "safe" but still with a whiff of forbidden fruit! The nearest mall (an hour's drive away) had The InStore where you could buy black light posters and all manners of Hippie stuff, all commercialized and heady stuff for a small town kid! I pretty much missed really experiencing the Summer of Love and all it represented by a good 5 years or so.... and it's just as well.. 🤣 And in the words of George Harrison, "All things must pass..." even the Summer of Love...

[@gr8witenorth61]

alot of this was being fed by the beatles and the rolling stones, and that group from '67- 72, then you got into jefferson starship and 'white rabbit', i was a kid at this time living in a restaurant in middle ontario, it truely was the best of time and the worst of times, for me....................

[@lorigoshert6667]

Thanks for this. I've seen a lot of documentaries about this era, but none that have presented the British perspective (aside from a few band-specific docs). I'd never heard of Radio Caroline, for example, and it was interesting to hear the different ways the older generation responded to youth culture. The audio seems to be messed up around the time Janis Joplin is singing, though.

[@FreeDocumentaryHistory]

Glad you liked it and we’ll check out the audio - thanks!

[@justinkauffman731]

And then came Tet

[@johnshields6852]

Ah, the summer of love, I was 7, figures, my timing sucks.

[@fabrikk60]

I'm the same age. At least I had a much older sister who brought home all the cool music for me to grow up to. Steppenwolf, Airplane, Hendrix, Cream, Love, Zappa, Traffic, Mayall, Blues Project...I was way into that stuff at age 7 so the late 60s has always felt like a familiar time to me.

[@Farsider3955]

🤔….and the year after the “Summer of Love” Robert Kennedy and Martin Luther King Jr. were assassinated. Woodstock (‘69) brought some renewed hope for the Hippie generation, but the “free” concert at Altamont later that year ushered in the darkness that follows naivety. Then 1970, the U.S. Military shoots down students, killing 4 and injuring almost a dozen others at Kent State University. Back to this vid though….this “Free Documentary” was pretty good….not great, but not horrible either. Didn’t flow well….seemed unorganized. Interviews with the ‘flower children’ in S.F. mixed in would have added much needed richness - and a glimpse into the actual mindset of the youth of that era. Of lot of great music artists were mention, but for 1967 how could they have left out Procol Harum?

[@Nick-fi1mc]

It is criminal what happens when the who went on stage at the Monterey Pop festival.... Where is their music???

[@MarcGoudreau]

That age almost transformed America from a corporate "forever war" Govt to a more agreeable partner in efforts for global peace. The Kent State event really highlighted how American youth hated the hypocrisy of the Vietnam war.

[@bobwhite2]

They hurt nobody.

[@edwardfischer3944]

MINIMUM WAGE Feb 1, 1967 $1.40 Non farm - $1.00, Farm - $1.00 New 1967 FORD MUSTANG Prices began at $2,461 for the Hardtop, $2,592 for the Fastback and $2,698 for the convertible. In 1967 I was broke and unemployed, new car price beyond reach. And all that hippy stuff cost money also. That was the typical summer of love.

[@tomsmith-rj3vw]

Wow best information thanks Google.

[@michellebarry-devries1082]

I was born in 61 and loved how the hippie daughters dressed and let them make out in there room at only 14...

[@brucelarsen6650]

You mean it's over? Wow, man... why didn't anybody tell me? Does this mean I gotta cut my hair and get a job now??? Bummer. I mean, MAJOR Bummer, man.

[@anitakephart3851]

Jackie Wilson was every bit a great dancer as James Brown without all the drama and controversary

[@docdurdin]

London was the new center of the universe in 67, WHAT THE HELL HAPPENED? It's LONDONSTAN now. If you took every culture, every belief, all the love, and all the hate and put it in a blender on high; That was the year that was truly Everthing, Everywhere, All at once.

[@patricialong5767]

The summer of self indulgence and absolute excess, did you say?? LOL

[@somystery]

I wanted to be a hippie when l was 5 years old 😂

[@Birdyblue12]

😂

[@cathylindeboo.9598]

Me too!! I was 6 in '67.

[@evarouse]

Me too

[@humboldthammer]

heh-heh. I probably dated you when you were twenty. Hey! I was just 28 when you were twenty, and singing lead in a band. You were irresistible. "I Love the Flower Girl."

[@victorsuarez3546]

1967: Love -Peace- LSD. 2024: Fentanyl- War- Mistrust. Lets not forget LBJ and Biden. A time to me alive and see changes. A time when America was America that cared for the citizens.When you can trust someone and you had a person as a friend not a cell phone or I-pad. Long live our youth Long live the 60's and the values there once was.

[@charlietwotimes]

Feed your head. Yep. 😎

[@Jatadhari1000]

excellent documentary, i was a kid then, but i lived through those times

[@danielgiraud1118]

Hey Chuck ! Yer documentary is very poorly done. It's messy, ye cannie see anything, the images go by way too quickly, ye cannie appreciate it. Yewh blew it !. I'm nae a-congratulatin' thee. Too bad...

[@antonius_006]

People didn`t learn Meditation, they learned lack of self love.

[@barkeyes8592]

I was born September 12th 1967

[@danielgiraud1118]

Et alors ? Qu'est-ce que l'on a foutre que tu sois né en 1967 ?

[@suep3806]

At 15.20 in the large felt hat the incomparable June Child, destined to became Mrs Marc Feld the only wife of T Rex’s Marc Bolan. A true English beauty.

[@stevenr8606]

Hendrix at the Waikiki Shell was a blast 💥 Even thou the amps died, 1969 😊 😡 my brother got out of the Vietnam War cuz he was flat footed. I never forgave him & to this day don't talk to him❗️ WHIMP 🤬 MY dad was there in the Air Force

[@jessiem276]

My uncle was flat-footed but fought in World War II. He received the Purple Heart.

[@humboldthammer]

Wanna know how I dodged the draft? My lottery number was 296.

[@danhurst9048]

This was the beginning of the end

[@humboldthammer]

I was 14 for the first half of 1967 -- 15 for the 2nd half. I was behind the Redwood Curtain (yes, once there really was a Redwood Curtain.) We received "the Latest" a bit later. Wanna know how I dodged the Draft? My lottery number in 1971, was 296. When I hear today's Conservatives calling Liberals, communists, queers, and pedophiles, I am reminded of the Inquisition. Freedom of Speech is a Liberal Ideal. The Inquisition is a Conservative Ideal. So MANY so Horribly taught.

[@timcross2510]

11,000 young Americans died in Viet Nam that year. More than Dday ,911 ,and Pearl Harbor combined.

[@marymacdonald2379]

In 1967, at18 I was having the time of my life living with my friends in Hollywood. The only dark cloud was my 19 year old brother was in Vietnam. I wrote to him and mailed him the newest albums (he was at the air base outside Saigon).

[@humboldthammer]

@@marymacdonald2379 I know a story of two brothers having the time of their lives on the Hollywood Strip. Then, the older brother over-dosed and died.

[@cynthiamckenzie1034]

🤯💔💔😰

[@Msmith-yd7bz]

I was in Saigon 2024 Jan,went to the war museum,no one in their right mind would want to attend that situation first hand if they had any idea of the suffering.The pictures were a reflection,I didn't want to see to much of that.Sorry war sends so many boys into a grinder.Around the same time in China great change erupted also,the cultural revolution,so many left the country to go to other countries to live.There were other factions of opinion in China at the time,but a dominant aspect of government established a type of stability. Its difficult to judge things from the outside and hard to see! When your in the middle,of change.Were all on the same planet taking our next breath,for a time.There are more similarities than differences by far! Surprised I be!

[@Sabotage_Labs]

12:40 Motown changed America and possibly the world! Motown was one of the best things for race relations in America. Black performed like the Supremes were chic. The music had a positive and relatable message. One that transcended race. My god...the talent!!! National treasures like Stevie Wonder and Marvin Gaye. The song writers!!! Just so much talent. It helped to teach America that our differences stop at skin and hair. That there were very little differences and the ones their were....were cultural just like the cultural differences between European countries and ethics groups. Sadly...we apparently have forgotten all of this and are sliding backwards into a very dangerous time. A time that is being repeated when our politicians, especially one political party and movement, uses race as a means to gain political power. We've seen what happens when this tactic is used. It burned down the European continent last century!!! We are walking down a very similar path with blinders on! Its terrifying!

[@QuaaludeCharlie]

Ahh the Year I was born :) QC

[@davidcockrill7115]

I was in Haight-Ashbury in 1967. A summer of weekend hippies. I was in Vietnam in 1969 fighting the Communist North Vietnamese who were sneaking into South Vietnam to attack the American armed forces who could not pursue them in Cambodia, Laos, abd North Vietnam.

[@generoush3823]

So ,any good memories, what I have of them anyway

[@6ixConfessions]

Seems to me that every generation, as it grows older finds an imagined reason to freak out over the younger generations.

[@humboldthammer]

ALL the Pentecostal Rapture Prophets of the New Apostolic Reformation (NAR), proclaimed Trump CHOSEN by God to rebuild the Temple in Jerusalem. 100's of millions deceived by false prophets. Matthew 24: 24. Never before RIGHT NOW have so many educated people lived so freely and so abundantly. And for just 18 years, we have been connected to a Shared, Worldwide Experience with near-instant communication. It is GUARANTEED to wake "THIS" generation up.

[@Fawn91193]

They freak out because they'll never be young again.

[@AmericanWoman1964]

The Association was huge in '67.

[@nicholasunion4362]

Janis Joplin came from Port Arthur (TX) ........still a good to be going from on the way to something better.Vale Janis RIRock and roll

[@heidibee501]

The Vietnam war was a warmongers dream. People died so the rich could get richer. Sadly nothing has changed. The name may be different but the game is always the same.

[@cyan1616]

1967 was the year my dad committed suicide. I was 5. Horrible year.

[@FreeDocumentaryHistory]

I’m so sorry. It’s a terrible way to lose a parent.

[@jimmyrodasmolestina979]

Born in 1967

[@FreeDocumentaryHistory]

obviously a memorable year :)

[@shootfirst2097]

3:34 The Club Scene-- so much more organic and open, the last time people could go out and have fun at places that weren't overly licensed and not be surveilled, regulated. No violence from blks and the hard drug scene

[@yochevedbrachasimon4979]

Great music! failed culture- still cleaning up the mess. From my point of view this is what started the drug culture that has destroyed large swaths of civilization and the mental health crisis our young people experience today.

[@marymacdonald2379]

We all have different perspectives about that time. I lived it, did you? My friends and I in L.A. were older teens in 1967 and we used psychedelics only. Most of us a little later pursued careers and became solid working adults. It was an inspirational time I wouldn't have missed. We chose not to get into harder drugs; they were available then.

[@yochevedbrachasimon4979]

@@marymacdonald2379 I was in the next bunch from1970's .For me it drug culture had beome normal so I have a resentment. Experimentation with drugs was usual and acceptable, a precedent set by hippies IMHO. Friends died, I suffered.

[@anitakephart3851]

What is with the silencing of Janis? Also. she didn't come from Austin Texas. She came from Port Charles Texas.

[@Fawn91193]

Port Arthur.

[@claudiolira3767]

✌✌✌✌✌✌✌

[@micheleleonello4867]

Like now 2024. We are in wars by a bunch of old guys from all countries.

[@robbyakes8736]

WAR IS EVIL

[@muzic4lyfe2005]

Meh Documentary seems all over the place, and they kept interviewing the same 3 people with their viewpoints