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Van Morrison - Astral
Weeks

`If I were the
CIA

,”
I once wrote, I’d get the left stoned on pot. I think they probably did. ‘ And
so it goes, and so it goes.

Out
of 1968 came...what? Well, a great democracy of thought. 1 15 year fashion for
casual sex that AIDS ended. A tolerance for abortion tat saved a lot of souls
and ended a lot of tiny lives, and rendred a a good few unknowing gorls
incapable of of child bearing. A wistful need for new religions to repalce the
ones that were gone.

The
Cream at this time were the first to marry successfully the Blues with the new
rock aesthetic (psychedelic) - Cream was a power
trio

Cream
set the staqndard to which all the others had to measure up - but disbanded in
1968




The
Who’s My Gneration further advanced the British invasion. - and their song
articualted the ideology of the counterculture. - It was the beginning of major
success for many - Hendrix, Joplin and the Who.

avalaiblity of
relaible birth control - the pill, and the escalation of the war in
Vietnam.

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